{"id":13520,"date":"2017-03-01T01:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14189"},"modified":"2017-02-23T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:19:57","slug":"interview-with-elen-sentier-british-shaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/03\/01\/interview-with-elen-sentier-british-shaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Elen Sentier: British Shaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Elen Sentier: British Shaman<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14190\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elen.jpg\" alt=\"Elen\" width=\"450\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t\tA:link { so-language: zxx }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p>Elen Sentier walks in the Deer Trods of Elen of the Ways, and has written about this and many other magical topics. She is <i>awenydd<\/i>, spirit keeper, and keeps old British ways alive, passing them on for future generations. Elen spoke to Mabh here at Pagan Pages about her books, her magical life and more.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mabh Savage: Your most recent release is <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/d\/Books\/Pagan-Portals-Merlin-Future-Wizard\/1785354531\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1487890769&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=elen+sentier\"><i>Merlin: Once and Future Wizard<\/i><\/a><b>. What inspired you to write this volume?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Elen Sentier: Well, actually, my publisher had the idea and commissioned it. It was great fun, and it seemed that he was thinking about Merlin at the same time as I was, and more than that, he didn\u2019t want yet another academic-style treatise but something more personal. Our conversation ended with me saying, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve known him [Merlin] all my life.\u201d To which Trevor replied, \u201cWell, you\u2019d better write him then.\u201d Trevor also dreamed up the title \u2013 Merlin: Once &amp; Future Wizard. He must have read the English author TH (Tim) White\u2019s lovely sequence of Arthurian novels, <i>The Once and Future King<\/i>. It certainly fits Merlin as I\u2019ve always known him.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: What were the biggest challenges writing this book? And what did you enjoy the most about it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Oooo heck! Challenges \u2026 I suppose, really, the worst was, and still is, exposing myself. In this day and age of debunking, especially esoteric stuff, it\u2019s very scary to come out about have a personal relationship with someone known as perhaps the most famous wizard in the world. I could imagine the comments of \u201cOh come off it!\u201d, and the potential shredding by academics. I talked about it with my husband who reminded me of the Hamlet quote, \u201cThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio\/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.\u201d It worked, began a new way of feeling for me. And then I remembered some work, early on, with my psychology teacher, Ian Gordon-Brown. He disagreed with an experience I\u2019d had in an active imagination exercise, shredded it in fact. Then, at the end of the session he came over to our little group and said, \u201cWait! I must say something. I\u2019m sorry, Elen, you were right and I was wrong. Your experience is yours, I should not have shredded it.\u201d Remembering those two things, Hamlet and Ian Gordon-Brown, gave me a new vision of reality, and so the courage to get on and write the book as Trevor had asked me to.<\/p>\n<p>I still worry, on and off, now, and I\u2019m slightly nervous when people ask me about it, but I\u2019ve got a handle on it now. It\u2019s mine, it\u2019s real, it happened and \u2013 even more important for me \u2013 it\u2019s useful to others.<\/p>\n<p>What did I enjoy most? Oh, the memories. I loved reliving the memories. Time-travelling. That\u2019s what you do when you go over memories, you travel in time. Remembering the journey with my French teacher, when I was sixteen, was amazing and has encouraged me to spend a week in Brittany this summer, going there on my own two feet instead of in a spirit-journey. There was also a wonderful closeness feeling as I retold the story of how I came to live where I do. That\u2019s all Merlin. After all, hereabouts is both one of his birthplaces and, nearby, is one of the places where his crustal cave is in the stories. I\u2019ve been there, to the top of the little mountain called Mynydd Myrddin, taken students there, and every one of us has had a marvellous journey to the cave.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: Your author page tells us you grew up surrounded by mythology and cunning folk. What\u2019s the most enduring memory of your formative years on Exmoor?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: There are so many! I loved going out with Uncle Jack. Sometimes we would sit under a tree most of the night, in the dark, watching and listening to the wild night-animals come round us. We sat very still, I learned what fun it was to be still from a very early age, how wildlife would come up to you, and that if you screamed and fussed and shouted you never got to see anything. Uncle Jack could call wild hawks down to his wrist, and owls too, and I\u2019ve sat beside him when he had an adder twined round his wrist, stroked her even. And I can still call owls now, and ravens.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: What inspired you to pass on the old ways of British shamanism and magic?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: I think it was the shouting! Otherworld can be rather like the Vogon guards in Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy and I sometimes think they\u2019re only in it for the shouting! They pestered me, shouted at me, hung spirit-carrots in front of me to lure me on, fed me fun happenings, and generally coerced me into passing them on. And they\u2019re right, it\u2019s great fun, students are great fun and so are readers. Readers quite often come back to me, through Facebook usually, with comments and questions and descriptions of things that have happened to them. I love this, and I often learn from them too. I\u2019m always happy when I get feedback from readers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I feel it\u2019s absolutely vital that we remember that, here in Britain, we have our own tradition. Archaeology tells us there\u2019ve been humans here for at least one million years, and they even found little goddess amulets. Then there\u2019s the cave with the sophisticated abstract reindeer drawing over in West Wales; the faint scratchings on the wall show a reindeer with a spear in its neck, and date back 14000 years. We have plenty to know and learn here, from our own spirit of place, spirit of Britain, we don\u2019t need to look abroad, and the world will be richer for us remembering and bringing the old ways to light.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: Do you feel more at home in the Welsh Marches than you did on Exmoor, or does each place have its own magic for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: I love both, and Dartmoor too which is where I was born and lived until I was about seven years old. And part of my soul always lives in the far north Highlands of Scotland, in Assynt, and also on Orkney. I have spirit-memories from many places. I love living in the Welsh Marches now, it\u2019s home, and although I still travel it wonderful to come back. And I love going back to Exmoor which I do with my students every autumn for their practical workshops. Each one has its own magic, its own spirit of place within the over-lighting spirit of Britain.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: Do you have a favourite book that you have penned so far?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Very difficult, I\u2019ve loved writing them all. I think, if pushed, I go back to the novels. I love writing fiction and all my fiction is bound up with the old ways of Britain while, at the same time being stories of mystery, danger and love. I\u2019ve learned a great deal throughout my life from reading good fiction, probably more from that than from non-fiction, after all we all live a good story, don\u2019t we? I hope I\u2019m slowly contributing to those.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: And what\u2019s your favourite book to read for pleasure?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: It changes all the time, with my mood, the seasons, the weather. If the house was burning down, or I was about to be dumped on the desert island I\u2019d have to demand to be left with more than one. At the moment the choice would be The Wood Wife by Terri Windling, The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart, Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K le Guin, and the 10 Amber novels by Roger Zelazny. There, you see? All fiction LOL.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: Who or what inspires you the most, either as an author or as a magical person?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Waking up every day to something new to do. Working for otherworld \u2013 which is what I do \u2013 is such fun, and anything that\u2019s fun inspires me. I really do get something new to do, write, explore, teach, tell, draw, paint, sing or just enjoy, every single day. Oh, and the dreams each night are good too *smile*.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: What new books can we expect from you in the coming months\/years?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Well, I\u2019m under contract to finish the Numerology book at the moment, it should go into production over the summer. Then I\u2019m contracted to do a compilation book called \u201cConversations with Witches\u201d. It will be a collection of conversations with witches coming from all sorts of British traditions and will be a lot of work but great fun to do. And I\u2019m going great guns with the third novel too. It\u2019s another mystery, and romance, set in London and down in the Cathar country of southwest France, which I know very well. And no, it\u2019s not another variation on the Da Vinci Code! It\u2019s being great fun to write and I hope you\u2019ll all enjoy reading it as much as I am writing it.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: Most people might not be aware that there is a tradition of British Shamanism. Can you tell us a little bit about being a British Shaman?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Ooof! There is one fundamental principle to the old ways of Britain and that is to ask. We ask everything, all the time. Other traditions speak of anima (spirit or soul) in all things and we know this too, and we act on it. We ask the trees and the spirits of place, the rivers and the hills, and all the spirits of otherworld \u2026 but we also ask things many folk consider inanimate like our car, fridge, computer, teapot, the house we live in, the central heating, etc etc. That likely sounds fairly weird because most people are not used to it. But it works. You can ask my students if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Asking, being able and willing to ask, put you in a whole different relationship with everything. By asking, you acknowledge it has spirit, is alive in its own way, can help you, and also has its own opinion on what you\u2019re doing. That is truly acknowledging you are connected to everything. It\u2019s hard to learn for many, they come to it in the middle of their lives, already very well ingrained in the idea that humans are top-dog and everything else is here just for us to use. Learning to ask tips all those ideas on their heads.<\/p>\n<p>So we truly work with everything, knowing ourselves to be the most junior species on the Earth, and learning from everything else, for everything else is our elder brethren \u2013 and all shamanic traditions teach that, including ours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14191\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elen2.jpg\" alt=\"Elen2\" width=\"324\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t\tA:link { so-language: zxx }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p><b>MS: How have your presentations on Merlin, Thresholds and the Fatherless Child been received? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: Very well, very enjoyable. I\u2019m now looking forward to do the workshop on it on 2-4 June at my home here in the Welsh Marches. There are a couple of places left \u2026 but probably not for long.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS:<\/b><i><b> Once and Future Wizard<\/b><\/i><b> is a Pagan Portal, an introductory volume; would you expand upon this at any point to give us a larger volume on Merlin?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: I really don\u2019t know. It\u2019s one of the questions I\u2019ll be asking when I go to Brittany this summer. I\u2019ll be staying in what was the old Broceliande so it\u2019s a good place to ask. It\u2019s possible \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: What is your favourite time of the year, or festival, and how do you mark or celebrate it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>ES: I love all our seasons, and the eight seasons of the year in our old ways. The busiest season for me is from Midwinter through Sun-Return and on to 12<sup>th<\/sup> Night. I\u2019m working every day then, partly because of the biodynamics we do. Midwinter is the turning of the year, the real new year because this is the time the sun itself turns around, from midwinter the days begin to get longer again, so this is my new year celebration, not the silly human calendrical 1<sup>st<\/sup> Jan. I celebrate from Midwinter\u2019s Eve, 20<sup>th<\/sup> Dec, right through to the Wassail of 6<sup>th<\/sup> Jan. perhaps the most important part of the celebration is making the biodynamic potion of frankincense, gold and myrrh, the three things represent upperworld, middleworld and lowerworld. It begins on Midwinter\u2019s Eve and the potion is gradually made up to 5<sup>th<\/sup> Jan then, on 12<sup>th<\/sup> Night (6<sup>th<\/sup> Jan) I sprinkle it on the garden.<\/p>\n<p><b>MS: And finally, what are you looking forward to most in 2017?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Finishing the novel! It has to be that, I\u2019m loving writing it but I need to get it out there \u2026 it needs to come to birth.<\/p>\n<p><i>You can find out more about Elen and her work at <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elensentier.co.uk\">www.elensentier.co.uk<\/a><i> and on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elensentier\">Twitter<\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elensentier.writer.page\/?pnref=lhc\">Facebook<\/a><i> and her book are widely available.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><i>Mabh Savage is a Pagan author and musician, as well as a freelance journalist. See is the author of <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Modern-Celt-Seeking-Ancestors\/dp\/1780997965\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1487891549&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+modern+celt\">A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors<\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Pagan-Portals-Celtic-Witchcraft-Modern\/dp\/1785353144\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\">Pagan Portals: Celtic Witchcraft<\/a><i>. Follow Mabh on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mabherick\">Twitter<\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MabhSavage\/\">Facebook<\/a><i> and her <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/soundsoftime.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a><i>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elen Sentier: British Shaman &nbsp; &nbsp; Elen Sentier walks in the Deer Trods of Elen of the Ways, and has written about this and many other magical topics. She is awenydd, spirit keeper, and keeps old British ways alive, passing them on for future generations. Elen spoke to Mabh here at Pagan Pages about her books, her magical life and more. Mabh Savage: Your most recent release is Merlin: Once and Future Wizard. What inspired you to write this volume? Elen Sentier: Well, actually, my publisher had the idea and commissioned it. It was great fun, and it seemed that he was thinking about Merlin at the same time as I was, and more than that, he didn\u2019t want yet another academic-style treatise but something more personal. Our conversation ended with me saying, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve known him [Merlin] all my life.\u201d To which Trevor replied, \u201cWell, you\u2019d better write him then.\u201d Trevor also dreamed up the title \u2013 Merlin: Once &amp; Future Wizard. He must have read the English author TH (Tim) White\u2019s lovely sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. It certainly fits Merlin as I\u2019ve always known him. MS: What were the biggest challenges writing this book? And what did you enjoy the most about it? ES: Oooo heck! Challenges \u2026 I suppose, really, the worst was, and still is, exposing myself. In this day and age of debunking, especially esoteric stuff, it\u2019s very scary to come out about have a personal relationship with someone known as perhaps the most famous wizard in the world. I could imagine the comments of \u201cOh come off it!\u201d, and the potential shredding by academics. I talked about it with my husband who reminded me of the Hamlet quote, \u201cThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio\/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.\u201d It worked, began a new way of feeling for me. And then I remembered some work, early on, with my psychology teacher, Ian Gordon-Brown. He disagreed with an experience I\u2019d had in an active imagination exercise, shredded it in fact. Then, at the end of the session he came over to our little group and said, \u201cWait! I must say something. I\u2019m sorry, Elen, you were right and I was wrong. Your experience is yours, I should not have shredded it.\u201d Remembering those two things, Hamlet and Ian Gordon-Brown, gave me a new vision of reality, and so the courage to get on and write the book as Trevor had asked me to. I still worry, on and off, now, and I\u2019m slightly nervous when people ask me about it, but I\u2019ve got a handle on it now. It\u2019s mine, it\u2019s real, it happened and \u2013 even more important for me \u2013 it\u2019s useful to others. What did I enjoy most? Oh, the memories. I loved reliving the memories. Time-travelling. That\u2019s what you do when you go over memories, you travel in time. Remembering the journey with my French teacher, when I was sixteen, was amazing and has encouraged me to spend a week in Brittany this summer, going there on my own two feet instead of in a spirit-journey. There was also a wonderful closeness feeling as I retold the story of how I came to live where I do. That\u2019s all Merlin. After all, hereabouts is both one of his birthplaces and, nearby, is one of the places where his crustal cave is in the stories. I\u2019ve been there, to the top of the little mountain called Mynydd Myrddin, taken students there, and every one of us has had a marvellous journey to the cave. MS: Your author page tells us you grew up surrounded by mythology and cunning folk. What\u2019s the most enduring memory of your formative years on Exmoor? ES: There are so many! I loved going out with Uncle Jack. Sometimes we would sit under a tree most of the night, in the dark, watching and listening to the wild night-animals come round us. We sat very still, I learned what fun it was to be still from a very early age, how wildlife would come up to you, and that if you screamed and fussed and shouted you never got to see anything. Uncle Jack could call wild hawks down to his wrist, and owls too, and I\u2019ve sat beside him when he had an adder twined round his wrist, stroked her even. And I can still call owls now, and ravens. MS: What inspired you to pass on the old ways of British shamanism and magic? ES: I think it was the shouting! Otherworld can be rather like the Vogon guards in Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy and I sometimes think they\u2019re only in it for the shouting! They pestered me, shouted at me, hung spirit-carrots in front of me to lure me on, fed me fun happenings, and generally coerced me into passing them on. And they\u2019re right, it\u2019s great fun, students are great fun and so are readers. Readers quite often come back to me, through Facebook usually, with comments and questions and descriptions of things that have happened to them. I love this, and I often learn from them too. I\u2019m always happy when I get feedback from readers. Also, I feel it\u2019s absolutely vital that we remember that, here in Britain, we have our own tradition. Archaeology tells us there\u2019ve been humans here for at least one million years, and they even found little goddess amulets. Then there\u2019s the cave with the sophisticated abstract reindeer drawing over in West Wales; the faint scratchings on the wall show a reindeer with a spear in its neck, and date back 14000 years. We have plenty to know and learn here, from our own spirit of place, spirit of Britain, we don\u2019t need to look abroad, and the world will be richer for us remembering and bringing the old ways to light. MS: Do you feel more at home in the Welsh Marches than you did on Exmoor, or does each place have its own magic for you? ES: I love both, and Dartmoor too which is where I was born and lived until I was about seven years old. And part of my soul always lives in the far north Highlands of Scotland, in Assynt, and also on Orkney. I have spirit-memories from many places. I love living in the Welsh Marches now, it\u2019s home, and although I still travel it wonderful to come back. And I love going back to Exmoor which I do with my students every autumn for their practical workshops. Each one has its own magic, its own spirit of place within the over-lighting spirit of Britain. MS: Do you have a favourite book that you have penned so far? ES: Very difficult, I\u2019ve loved writing them all. I think, if pushed, I go back to the novels. I love writing fiction and all my fiction is bound up with the old ways of Britain while, at the same time being stories of mystery, danger and love. I\u2019ve learned a great deal throughout my life from reading good fiction, probably more from that than from non-fiction, after all we all live a good story, don\u2019t we? I hope I\u2019m slowly contributing to those. MS: And what\u2019s your favourite book to read for pleasure? ES: It changes all the time, with my mood, the seasons, the weather. If the house was burning down, or I was about to be dumped on the desert island I\u2019d have to demand to be left with more than one. At the moment the choice would be The Wood Wife by Terri Windling, The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart, Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K le Guin, and the 10 Amber novels by Roger Zelazny. There, you see? All fiction LOL. MS: Who or what inspires you the most, either as an author or as a magical person? ES: Waking up every day to something new to do. Working for otherworld \u2013 which is what I do \u2013 is such fun, and anything that\u2019s fun inspires me. I really do get something new to do, write, explore, teach, tell, draw, paint, sing or just enjoy, every single day. Oh, and the dreams each night are good too *smile*. MS: What new books can we expect from you in the coming months\/years? ES: Well, I\u2019m under contract to finish the Numerology book at the moment, it should go into production over the summer. Then I\u2019m contracted to do a compilation book called \u201cConversations with Witches\u201d. It will be a collection of conversations with witches coming from all sorts of British traditions and will be a lot of work but great fun to do. And I\u2019m going great guns with the third novel too. It\u2019s another mystery, and romance, set in London and down in the Cathar country of southwest France, which I know very well. And no, it\u2019s not another variation on the Da Vinci Code! It\u2019s being great fun to write and I hope you\u2019ll all enjoy reading it as much as I am writing it. MS: Most people might not be aware that there is a tradition of British Shamanism. Can you tell us a little bit about being a British Shaman? ES: Ooof! There is one fundamental principle to the old ways of Britain and that is to ask. We ask everything, all the time. Other traditions speak of anima (spirit or soul) in all things and we know this too, and we act on it. We ask the trees and the spirits of place, the rivers and the hills, and all the spirits of otherworld \u2026 but we also ask things many folk consider inanimate like our car, fridge, computer, teapot, the house we live in, the central heating, etc etc. That likely sounds fairly weird because most people are not used to it. But it works. You can ask my students if you like. Asking, being able and willing to ask, put you in a whole different relationship with everything. By asking, you acknowledge it has spirit, is alive in its own way, can help you, and also has its own opinion on what you\u2019re doing. That is truly acknowledging you are connected to everything. It\u2019s hard to learn for many, they come to it in the middle of their lives, already very well ingrained in the idea that humans are top-dog and everything else is here just for us to use. Learning to ask tips all those ideas on their heads. So we truly work with everything, knowing ourselves to be the most junior species on the Earth, and learning from everything else, for everything else is our elder brethren \u2013 and all shamanic traditions teach that, including ours. &nbsp; &nbsp; MS: How have your presentations on Merlin, Thresholds and the Fatherless Child been received? ES: Very well, very enjoyable. I\u2019m now looking forward to do the workshop on it on 2-4 June at my home here in the Welsh Marches. There are a couple of places left \u2026 but probably not for long. MS: Once and Future Wizard is a Pagan Portal, an introductory volume; would you expand upon this at any point to give us a larger volume on Merlin? ES: I really don\u2019t know. It\u2019s one of the questions I\u2019ll be asking when I go to Brittany this summer. I\u2019ll be staying in what was the old Broceliande so it\u2019s a good place to ask. It\u2019s possible \u2026 MS: What is your favourite time of the year, or festival, and how do you mark or celebrate it? ES: I love all our seasons, and the eight seasons of the year in our old ways. The busiest season for me is from Midwinter through Sun-Return and on to 12th Night. I\u2019m working every day then, partly because of the biodynamics we do. 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