Our beloved Bob Patrick has recently had his book, The Four Talismans: Devotion, Initiation and Magic, published by Cherry Hill Seminary Publishing. Read their press release below:
Columbia, S.C.—Cherry Hill Seminary Publishing has released The Four Talismans: Devotion, Initiation, and Magic by longtime professor Robert Patrick, PhD, MDiv.
Patrick says, “The Four Talismans: Devotion, Initiation, and Magic arose out of my ongoing conversation with a story–and not even a complete story. It is a piece of a story that spoke to me and would not stop talking.
“I explore how the story of the Tuatha De Danann prepared themselves with the magic they needed to accomplish what they were destined to do as the gods and goddesses of ancient Ireland.
“I found that they have become for me a paradigm for my own spiritual path, and I think they might call to others and their paths as well. The Four Talismans offers this invitation: come and see what magic might be stirred up in you.“
Residing in Lawrenceville, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, Patrick holds a BA in Biblical Literature from Oral Roberts University, a Masters of Divinity from Emory University, and a PhD in Latin and Roman Studies from the University of Florida. His dissertation focused on the presence of sacred groves in the Metamorphoses of Ovid as nonlinear events, and he has continuing interest in sacred groves in surrounding European and near-eastern cultures, particularly Celtic cultures.
An active member of the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, he co-founded both the Oak Grove CUUPS and the Druid Order of Three Realms whose mother Grove, Sylvan Sanctuary, meets at UUCG.
His religious and spiritual path is labyrinthine including ministry in the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and for the last twenty years, Druidry and Unitarian Universalism.
Saturday, May 9 Patrick [delivered] the keynote address at the Cherry Hill Seminary Commencement, “Presence, Change and Imagination: The Possibilities.” … He will also sign books at a CHS reception at Mystic South conference in Atlanta, from 6-8 PM on Thursday, July 16, then present a seminar in the CHS suite called “The Power of Story: Devotion, Initiation and Magic” (same conference, date to be determined).
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