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What is the Otherworld?

What is the Otherworld?

The Sacred in the Mundane

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Gabriela Gutierrez
Aug 27, 2023
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“The Children of Lir", Sheila MacGill-Callahan, illustration by Gennady Spirin

In an attempt to put into words my own understanding of the Otherworld, I am drawing on Celtic and Middle Eastern cosmologies today. These ideas are not presented as dogma or absolute truths. They are simply based on my own experience and my personal relationship with these my…

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