Exciting News!
Re-enchanting the Forest by William Ayot, owner of The Welsh Gatehouse
is being released on on Amazon Kindle
TODAY Friday 20th December 2024!
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TAKE A LOOK AT THIS REVIEW
FROM THE NEWORK REVIEW: JOURNAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK
"Picking up this book, the first thing the reader notices is the fulsome tributes by many leading people from different disciplines, including a foreword by actor Mark Rylance. Read on, and you will certainly not be disappointed by this remarkable account both of the author's life and the way in which he came into ritual. His childhood was challenging, to say the least. His father died of a heart attack just after a terrible row when Ayot said he could never forgive him. He worked in the gaming industry for 20 years before gradually finding his path, where reconnecting with the village of his childhood was an important step. After this break with his father, he made a pyre of his childhood objects and set it on fire - perhaps a classic example of the ritual of separation."
David Lorimer
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"William Ayot is an explorer. This marvellous book is a testament of his expeditions into the unknown."
Sir Mark Rylance
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Re-enchanting the Forest
"By introducing people to the ways of ritual, William Ayot helps people towards a wiser, richer, more connected life."
Sobonfu Somé, initiated teacher, activist and author of The Spirit of Intimacy
"I love the way William Ayot’s book combines the story of his life with an exploration of the value and purpose of ritual. By weaving the accounts of his own challenges, described with such heartfelt honesty, with discussions of how to work with ritual, the whole subject comes alive. I found I couldn’t stop reading."
Philip Carr-Gomm, author of Druidcraft and Sacred Places
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A compelling exploration of the lost yet crucial role of ritual in our increasingly secular lives. Today, in the West, we hold neither adequate rites of passage for our youth, nor initiations for our growing number of elders. We have neither healing rituals for the loss of an unborn child, nor ways to mark the severing of a twenty-year relationship. This can leave us feeling alienated and bereft. Re-enchanting the Forest is written for that part in us that yearns for living ritual, that seeks to bring an embodied sense of solace and belonging back into our modern lives. Drawing on his own experience, and on the ritual cultures of the indigenous world, William Ayot demonstrates the value and power of ritual to revive and 're-wire' our sometimes confused and disconnected spirits.
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