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    Entering the Grove
    Entering the Grove
    Entering the Grove
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    Entering the Grove

    By Adele Cosgrove-Bray

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    This collection of Adele Cosgrove-Bray's poetry describes how, at the age of nineteen, she entered an order known variously as the Eternal Companions or the Initiates of Ma'at, which was led by an elderly man called Thomas Joseph Walton, (or "T"). His philosophy was similar to that of GI Gurdjieff's.

    "Entering the Grove" describes her seven years with this group. She hoped to find answers to a series of experiences which had haunted her since early childhood, as depicted in the poems "I Wonder", "Twilight" and "Love's Hermitage", but she gradually became disillusioned with Walton's philosophy.

    In 1999, Adele joined the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD), and this heralded the start of a highly creative period. Yet she had still found no solution to the life-long mystery which haunted her dreams. What was this presence, this beyond-human entity, who had walked into her dreams all her life? A figment of a vivid imagination, or simply longing for an idealised companion? No-one had any answers.

    As she moved deeper into the Ovate grade with OBOD, her inner journey took her along an unexpected route away from OBOD, as is hinted at in the last poem of this collection, "Dream Life".

    ALSO INCLUDES the first chapter of Adele Cosgrove-Bray's forthcoming novel, "Tamsin".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdele Cosgrove-Bray
    Release dateOct 29, 2011
    ISBN9781466072763
    Entering the Grove
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    Adele Cosgrove-Bray

    Adele Cosgrove-Bray is a writer and artist. Her writing has been widely published traditionally in magazines and anthologies, and she has also explored self-publishing. Her Artisan-Sorcerer novels have drawn an impressive cult following. Other activities include photography, gardening and walking with her dogs through the ancient woodlands of the Wirral peninsula in England.

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      What was the beyond-human being who walked into her dreams? How could mere dreams seem more real than reality? This enchanting collection of poetry describes the author's long search for answers, first with an order led by Thomas Joseph Walton, then later with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and beyond.

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    Entering the Grove - Adele Cosgrove-Bray

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    Entering the Grove

    A Spiritual Journey told through Poetry

    By

    Adele Cosgrove-Bray

    Smashwords Edition

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    Entering the Grove

    A Spiritual Journey told through Poetry

    Copyright Adele Cosgrove-Bray, 2011.

    Author's website: http://adelecosgrove-bray.blogspot.com

    Smashwords Edition License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with, or if it was not purchased for your use only then you should return it to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

    The right of Adele Cosgrove-Bray to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted.

    Note

    Many of the poems included in this collection have been previously published in Moonstone magazine; Crykel Spynn magazine; A Wigwam to Wind the Sun Up; Love and All that Jazz (Arrival Press); and Touchstone, the Journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.

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    Table of Contents

    Life is like a Little Cube

    The Puppet Master

    I Wonder...

    The Light at the Top of the Stairs

    When the Pupil is Ready

    Impressions of a New Age Festival

    Love's Hermitage

    Twilight

    The Dagda Psalms

    Crackers at Garston

    Astral Meeting

    Bye, Gran

    A Turn of the Wheel

    Take Me Back Home

    Witchy Child

    Stepping Stones

    St John the Baptist, Chester

    Boi-Yoing!

    Mind Flight

    Crone

    Rising From the Tomb

    Ghost Mountain

    Waking the Crone

    Riverside Gathering

    Five Years

    Before I Turn to Glass

    Sand

    Seven Years

    The Cavern

    And Suddenly

    Night Song

    Aquarius Rising

    Autumn Sun

    This Garden

    Entering the Grove

    The River

    Druid's Journey

    Dream Life

    Notes About the Poems

    Excerpt from Tamsin

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    Note

    Many of the poems included in this collection have been previously published in Moonstone magazine; Crykel Spynn magazine; A Wigwam to Wind the Sun Up; Love and All that Jazz (Arrival Press); and Touchstone, the Journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.

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    Foreword

    This collection of Adele Cosgrove-Bray’s poetry describes how, at the age of nineteen, she entered an order known variously as the Eternal Companions or the Initiates of

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