E. Graham Howe’s Secret Druidic Doctrine. By Ian C. Edwards, PhD

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Imagine a man who influenced the likes of Alan Watts, was a friend of Krishnamurti, whose work was lauded by Henry Miller, and had the audacity to challenge the great psychiatrist, C.G. Jung, during one of Jung’s own seminars.  Also imagine that this very same man who authored thirteen books and countless articles on the relationship between psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, spiritual practice, and Druidry was left out of the history books, and pushed to the margins of obscurity.  Who was this man?  This man was the early 20th-century British psychologist and Druid, E. Graham Howe.

Howe was a master psychologist but even more so a Druid, whom he described as being, “masters of the art of living.”  He was a Druid in psychologist’s clothing, a psychologist who used psychology and psychotherapy to convey his secret Druidic doctrine.  Like C.G. Jung’s Gnostically influenced Liber Novus (The Red Book), which was the secret foundation for all of his psychological writings, Howe’s Druidry was the secret foundation for his own writings.  Howe’s Druidry had one primary aim, which was to heal psychological suffering.  Whether he was referencing psychology, philosophy, or spirituality, Howe pointed to the art of healing in them all.

E. Graham Howe was one of the first psychologists to integrate spiritual practice with psychotherapy. Because he did so during a time when psychoanalysis was being established as a dogma, Howe was marginalized and even anathematized by the various psychoanalytic schools.  This book will situate Howe within the history of psychoanalysis, showing his work in relation to Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and Alfred Adler just to name a few.  It will also provide a summary and reading of his metaphysical psychology, illustrating his views on depression, love, time, war, self-knowledge, psychotherapy as a way of being, and more.  The book will also present some Druidic foundations of Howe’ psychology, in the spirit of the 18th – 19th century Welsh poet, Iolo Morganwg, whose own Druidry, like Howe’s, was inspired, emphasizing more of the Druidic soul rather than blind allegiance to any tradition or belief system.

Included in this book are forewords by author and Druid, John Michael Greer, and Jungian analyst and author, Stanton Marlan.

¶ CONTENTS: Foreword I, by John Michael Greer / Foreword II, by Stanton Marlan, PhD, ABPP. / PART I: INTRODUCTION - Chapter 1 Can You Tell a Druid by his Clothing? / PART II: HOWE’S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS - Chapter 2  How(e ) Should I Compare Thee? / Chapter 3 The Unwilling Expression of Unwillingness / Chapter 4 On the Heights of Inferiority / Chapter 5 The Infinite and Everchanging Varieties of Love / Chapter 6 The Multi-Dimensional Self / PART III: THE ESSENCE OF HOWE’S PSYCHOLOGY - Chapter 7 Relationship as Self-Knowledge / Chapter 8 Howe’s Metaphysical Psychology / Chapter 9 Is There a Fourth Dimension? / Chapter 10 War Dance / Chapter 11 Psychotherapy as a Way of Being / Chapter 12 Howe’s Via Positiva / PART IV: DRUIDIC FOUNDATIONS OF HOWE’S PSYCHOLOGY - Chapter 13 Einigen the Giant / Chapter 14 An Ontology of Awen / Chapter 15 A Druidic Elemental Psychology / Chapter 16 Living the Three Circles of Manifestation / PART V:  CONCLUSION - Chapter 17 A Healer for the 21st Century / PART VI: APPENDICES - Appendix I Three Versions of the Druid’s Prayer / Appendix II Howe’s Method of Meditation / Appendix III Walking Under the Dolmen Arch / Bibliography.