Spellbinding

<p>Modernity would see the Anglo-Saxon runes as historic and archaic; letters and words of a bygone era superseded by the Roman script and Modern English language. Kennan sees the reverse to be true; that the runes comprise a system with symbolic depth and spiritual significance which modern language and speech has generally lost contact with. Exploration of the Anglo-Saxon runes restores Old English as the foundation of Modern English; being a mythic ecological and soulful sensibility with rich imagery and a symbolic foundation. Letters words and language can be more than conveyors of routine information and communication; the runes provide this as well as a means of spiritual inquiry and magical usage that has been lost... to our modern collective detriment. </p><p><br></p><p>Kennan's journey in medicine and psychology led him to his heritage where a retrieved shamanic sensibility helped explore the historical and ancestral roots in his personal and professional life. </p><p><br></p><p>In the broader Anglo-Celtic culture he discovered a perspective of the Soul that his religious upbringing had lost. The runes greatly assisted this process and gave him a creative perspective of magic and its use in everyday life and with it an individual pathway to spiritual realisation through the restoration of the Soul. </p>