And the task of these very souls is to fashion them anew in clothing that befits the challenge of the time and place, so they may be accessed afresh and abroad. The primary focus of the College is on health and healing, and as this broadens and deepens it will reveal that druidry provides a current context for the expression of healing. In a time when we have become consumed with disease we have lost the foundations of health. For health is fundamentally a spiritual adventure, and here we see the beginnings of the connection with druidry. However in our time the opposites have been rent asunder.
Illness becomes disease, feared and despised, raising the spectre of death.
In psychological terms this is the shadow that requires redemption and occurs within a framework of acceptance and self-responsibility. It also embraces the question of pain and suffering in a creative and purposeful manner. So healing is much more than a simple 'fixing' of the body, it is a challenge to life itself and fundamental to it. To some it is even the core purpose of our individual existence, enshrined in doctrines such as reincarnation. As we work with the body we inevitably move beyond it and explore the realms of the psyche, extending to spiritual realities.