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...stages, roughly between 3050 B.C. and 1500 B.C. The identity of its builders, and its purpose, may never be known. Various theories suggest it may have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds to Stonehenge. Fearing that the stones were at risk, English Heritage roped them off in 1977. In June 1985, 1,300 police officers confronted...
...seriously. What he is aiming for here (despite the physical appearance of his stars) is lyricism. You see his effort in the lingering shots of seaside cliffs, the neverending play of ethereal Celtic music meant to suggest a world of characters both noble and haunting, the inscrutable nods to druidism, the acting that is, alas, always solidly earnest...
...open insult to both actor Douglas and the principles of Druidism, Big Trees deserves...
Religion & Happiness. Asia's richest gifts to the U.S., says Harvard's Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted...
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