The Ancient Order of Druids in America, in conjunction with Starseed Press, has launched a publishing program to bring out books relevant to our traditions and study program. Several books relevant to our work are also published by Weiser Books, and a correspondence study program is also available to members and nonmembers interested in traditional Druid Revival spirituality.
The Ancient Order of Druids in America, in conjunction with Starseed Press, has launched a publishing program to bring out books and other resources relevant to our traditions and study program.
The Druid Grove Handbook
Compiled from the records of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and edited by the AODA's current Grand Archdruid,widely read author and environmental blogger John Michael Greer, this book provides a detailed survey of the evolution of AODA's ceremonial traditions, and the complete rituals for opening and closing a Druid grove, initiating candidates for membership, and celebrating the solstices and equinoxes, the four primary holy days of the traditional Druid year.
90 pages, $15.95
Druid Revival Reader
An accessible and engaging introduction to contemporary Druid nature spirituality by the current Grand Archdruid of an American Druid order, The Druidry Handbook offers a hands-on guide to Druid methods of meditation, seasonalcelebration, and living in harmony with the green Earth.
In the midst of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a handful of British intellectuals turned their backs on the social and cultural trends of their time and set out to reinvent the spirituality of the ancient Druids. The movement that rose out of this effort played a central role in struggles for cultural identity in most of the Celtic nations of Europe, provided inspiration to such world-class creative talents as William Blake and Frank Lloyd Wright, and inspired an innovative tradition of Western nature spirituality that remains active to this day. The Druid Revival Reader provides the first collection of original writings from that movement. Its selections, beginning with William Stukeley's survey of Druid theology from 1743 and ending with Ross Nichols' 1947 essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," cover two centuries in the life of an evolving tradition.
Edited and introduced by contemporary Druid John Michael Greer, The Druid Revival Reader is essential for understanding the sources of modern Druid and Pagan traditions, and offers a wealth of insights relevant to the ecological and spiritual crises of our own time.
232 pages, $19.95
Books from Other Publishers
The Druidry Handbook
The core textbook for the First Degree study program of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, The Druidry Handbookexplores the Sun Path of seasonal celebration, the Moon Path of meditation, and the Earth Path of living in harmony with nature as tools for crafting an earth-honoring life here and now. From ritual and meditation to nature awareness and ecological action, this user-friendly guide opens the door to a spirituality rooted in the living Earth.
288 pages. $21.95
The Druid Magic Handbook
The first book to provide instruction in the distinctive methods of ceremonial magic in the contemporary Druid tradition, The Druid Magic Handbook draws on the traditions of the Ancient Order of Druids in America to provide a complete curriculum for the student of Druid magic.
288 pages, $19.95
Correspondence Study
The Dolmen Arch course is a reconstructed early 20th century American Druid correspondence course, which includes material closely related to the teachings in The Druid Magic Handbook, along with a great deal of additional teachings not published elsewhere -- meditation practices, Druid philosophy, teachings concerning the Mabinogion, methods of energy healing, and much more. The course is taught personally by Grand Archdruid John Michael Greer, and is available to members and nonmembers of AODA alike. If you are interested in learning more about the course, please send an email toinfo@aoda.org with the heading "Dolmen Arch course," or a letter of inquiry (including a stamped self-addressed envelope) to AODA, PO Box 996, Cumberland MD 21501, USA.
