Nature Spirits, Druids and Cymatics

With spring officially here, you might find this video entitled, “Nature Spirits and Spring,” by David Griffiths interesting and somewhat appropriate. I initially became interested in it, because of the reference to nature spirits, but I didn’t find anything in this video about fairies and the devas expounded in the books of northern Scotland’s spiritual community Findhorn. However, I kept watching this rather long 15-minute video because it mentioned the Druids, the classical priesthood of the British Isles, who some say are responsible for the mystical stone circle of Stonehenge.

To tell you the truth, I was also intrigued because of the accent of the narrator of the video, who I assume is its director/cameraman/editor, and also his reference to strange-sounding places. As the credits rolled by, I discovered acknowledgements to instructors at Coleg Harlech, which is an educational institution for mature adults in Wales. Well, that’ s interesting! So, here is a video made by David Griffiths, who I assume made the video to fulfill an assignment at Coleg Harlech.

I like that by watching the video, I am connected with sincere people of a little-known British culture from across the ocean. The only other experience I’ve had with Wales and Welsh people was during a visit to London when it began to rain and my husband and I ducked into a nearby pub. A couple of young women joined us at our table. They said they were from Wales. I asked them what was Wales like. They replied, “A lot of sheep crossing the road.”

As it turned out, the most interesting part of the video for me, was the hill that reminded me of Silbury Hill, which is close to Stonehenge. Unfortunately, I could not understand the name of this, this video hill, which, I suspect, has a Welsh name. In any case, the most intriguing image is that this hill is hollow inside and has a stone doorway as an entrance.

You might be wondering what “Cymatics” is, since the word is in the title of this blog post. The video also refers to and has video snippets illustrating Cymatics which is the study of the affect of visible sound on objects. Mr. Griffiths has used some delightful music in the background from some familiar groups of the 70s and 80s plus “Y Tylwyth Teg of Gwynedd” who, I guess, is a friend at the college.