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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In John Matthews book Taliesin: Shamanism and the Bardic   
   Mysteries in Britain and Ireland, on p. 90, is the following quote:   
      
   Seven years your right, under a flagstone, in a quagmire,   
   Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing,   
   The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language:   
   And if you like to return   
   You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.   
   (Ancient Irish Poem)   
      
   In my case I have gone over 28 (4X7) years and may have   
   to go 29 (7+2 sunspot cycles) years, so long since I have a   
   global region.   
      
   The "under a flagstone, in a quagmire” I relate to certain   
   mystic blocks which have prevented me from making   
   any progress. I had been saying there are seven blocks   
   but now divine there is an eighth block, similar to block 4   
   on belief, but rather than on humans, cetaceans, and   
   non-human simians it is on popthrough collaborators   
   other than my top deity Goddess, who I define as the   
   ruler of the region all/everything, but including my other   
   seven main deities.   
      
   And it now looks likely that I will have to wait at least   
   until Samhain and possibly until Chinese New Year   
   (and both are new moons) for the blocks to be lifted.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)