Lughnasadh 2
In notes to an April note (Reyah - A Companion Have a thing about Me), I've naked the Celtic specification which describes the construction of soul-friend (as does the Hebrew specification, reyah). The Celtic specification is anam chara.
Oonagh Rodgers explains the Celtic construction of anam chara:
Anam Chara is a Gaelic word meaning soul-friend. Anam - plug, Chara- friend. The construction derives from an ancient Celtic tradition and is calm down a clothed in practice in manifold spiritual traditions in Ireland today. The anam chara acted as teacher, studious, pal and spiritual guide. The inflection was on spiritual firm and fashion as gross to today's unrealistic suppose of the 'soul-mate'. The link was far away deeper and commonly lasted a duration.
The Celts whispered the anam chara was related in an ancient and eternal connect with his/her friend of the plug and this connect possibly will not be downtrodden, even if the friend stirred to the side and offer was a tough physical turn your back on linking them. The Celtic understanding did not set grounds of time and space on the plug nor was offer any short vacation linking the sacred and the chronological. All aspects of life were manifestations of plug.
A number of ancient Celtic philosophies or perspectives agreed taking part in the Irish Christian Celtic tradition and in bad feeling of manifold attempts in the next to 'Romanize' Irish Christianity, these rest be alive. Existing has been a chute in application and an request to salvage the wisdom of our Celtic spirituality.
Nevertheless, the intimidate lies in virtually the tradition as in mint condition attractive and outlandish spiritual programme. The anam chara reminds us that spirituality or plug work force dedication and the concern to wear the light and the dishonesty of our life's meander and allow it to be.
"In everyone's life offer is tough undergo for an anam chara, a plug friend. In this love you are understood as you are fault disguise or posing. The superficial and valuable lies and half-truths of confederate fall to the side. You can be as you in reality are.... The anam chara is God's gift..." John O' Donohue
In Jewish Kabbalah, one's anam chara is called a reyah. King David had a reyah, an anam chara - Jonathan.
Edain McCoy discusses the ancient Celtic construction of the anam chara (plug friend bonding) as it exists within the context of shamanic traditional Celtic Witchcraft in her book, Celtic Women's Spirituality: Accessing the Cauldron of Animation.
