Dr. Gareth Pengwerin

89, Male

Caeredin, Yr Ogledd Hen

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Gender, any & all.
Male
Area location: Country with Optional State, Province etc.
United Kingdom of Great Britain - Alba
Why I wish to join The Temple & how I found out about it...
I am a previous member invited initially by the founder, Leila Raven - now returning after a lengthy period of absence.
About Myself & My Interests...
I am an 80 year old retired classical scholar, teacher & lecturer in musicology, recitalist & conductor but still involved in research, giving tutorials in Keltic Metaphysics on line and composing music (mainly choral & organ by commission). I have now been married for over 30 gloriously happy years to Sîan - a most wonderful, loving and caring lady whom I love most dearly.

Old Gareth lives in a wheelchair with no legs & multiple health problems but I'm still breathing and adapting well spacially so life can't be all bad. lol

It's 70 years since I had the old Welsh legends recounted to me as a 10 year old and my whole life has been centred around the major pantheon therein.

My website "Kaer Dathyl" has been on line since early 1990s - an exposition of the hereditary family of Y Plant Dôn - The Children of Dôn who revere the pantheon from the Fourth Branch Mabinogi. Those who choose to enter Kaer Dathyl may savour the Keltic spirit therein.

Now after considerable expansion, it may be seen at the following URL:- http://www.yplantdon.com. You will be very welcome to visit where you can meet "the family" and learn a little of this Welsh tradition with access to a lengthy taxonomy of the Major Deities, philosophical approaches and texts, etc. unique to Y Plant Dôn with some tangential references to Sanskrit & quantum physics.

It is a VIRTUAL TEXTBOOK on theoretical & practical Keltic Metaphysics! All are very welcome to visit and stay awhile.

I try to provide some inspiration to the few Kelts who study this website. It may be used, however, for the microscopy of other pantheons via the Metaphysical Law of Analogy.

I am neither a Druid, witch nor Wiccan (although I have had much interaction with the Sanders and one of Gardner's early High Priestesses) but class myself as a mystic & metaphysician. When pressed to hang a label around my neck, I usually say I am a Keltic Cosmotheist who works with his wife as a pro bono Consultant Metaphysician, hypnotherapist & hypnoanalyst.
My Teachers & Influences, What was it about them that influenced me?
The interest shown to me as an individual by college lecturers & tutors plus that important character trait owned by some - charisma.
Authors and/or Books I appreciate:
The Mabinogion; Red Book Hergest; White Book Rhydderch; Black Book Caermyrddin and works on psychology (especially Jungian) and the works of the German philosophers. The Cranwell Lectures. Indeed when it was not only fashionable but also mandatory to be a Freudian, I was a confirmed Jungian!
Musicians and/or Music I appreciate:
From the following Periods of composition:-
Baroque - Bach, Buxtehude & Handel
Classical - Beethoven & Gluck
Romantic - Wagner, Liszt, Brahms, Elgar & Puccini
Nationalist - Borodin, Cui, Balakirev, Moussorgsky
Rimsky-Korsakov (the Russian "Five")
Modern - Holst, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Vaughan Williams,
Elgar, Menotti & Mahler

Big Band swing and Modern Jazz
New-Age Impressionism
Films and/or Film-Makers & Actors I appreciate:
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Robert de Niro, Anthony Hopkins, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Nicolas Cage, Morgan Freeman, Ian McKellen, Jack Nicholson, Jack Lemon, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Sir John Gielgud.
Artists and/or Art I appreciate:
Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Maurice de Vlaminck
Website: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or any favourites?
http://www.yplantdon.com

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  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    Blessed Be, Dr Gareth

    I am wondering whether you may enjoy this one too :)

    Thank you for accepting my friendship request.

    A Blessed Full Moon to you and yours. 

    Apr 15, 2014

  • Londie Benson

    Thank you kind sir. Blessings to you this day and in all your days that follow :)

    Apr 30, 2014

  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    Dr Gareth, thank you 

    It may indeed be so- Hagar being Moses' wife and definitely of Egyptian origins it may well be!

    So much as been obscured deliberately over the millennia that we sometimes only have the  barest of facts to compare with. However the Lost City of Ophir is an ancient Ophite city.

    Personally I am of the opinion that Ophir was the capital of Ereshkigal and was situated nearby the Victoria falls in Zimbabwe all the years ago. There is certainly enough evidence in the way of the stone Horus hawk statues, the ruins of Monomotapa and the extensive evidence of advanced mining techniques having been employed in Southern Africa some 50-100 000 years ago if not more to suggest that Africa as a continent was part of both the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian centres of civilization.

    To answer your question and to clarify things , I am first a Goddess devotee and an Ophite, or Serpent worshipper. I really resonate with the Wiccan traditions as there are many similarities between ancient Ophite ways and those of Wicca. Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente are of my teachers.

    Really speaking I am completely eclectic in my approach and love to learn from all valid Paths as my view accords with that of Doreen Valiente who commented once that

    " What appears to be borrowing from another tradition, is really the bringing together of many things which all have the same common origin".

    Thanking you for the stimulating conversation we are enjoying in the Dark Goddess group. Blessed Be

    Em Hotep, Gareth Pengwerin

    May 1, 2014

  • Laura Isis Scarlet

    Hello and thank you for the warm welcome!Blessed be!

    May 29, 2014

  • Laura Isis Scarlet

    Thank you,to kind :)

    May 29, 2014

  • Paula G

    Hi Gareth,
    Thank you for you lovely welcome. Everyone is so welcoming. I'm still finding my way around. It gets a bit confusing, in some areas, but I haven't stalled yet. It is now 3:30 am in NZ and I'm up and about to watch the World Cup. All very exciting.

    Cheers

    Jul 5, 2014

  • Sade Khalid

    thanx so much for welcoming me

    Jul 17, 2014

  • Dinky

    Thank you :) im on an amazing journey, and advice is always welcome..have a beautiful evening:)

    Aug 2, 2014

  • joy paula marsden

    thank you

    Aug 10, 2014

  • Helge Matthias Doerre

    May the Goddess smile upon you and may Love & Light fill your life.

    Helge

    Aug 27, 2014

  • SmokeRider

    Thanks for the welcome. :-)

    Aug 27, 2014

  • rajeev sharma

    may the dark mother bless you and fulfill your dreams

    Aug 30, 2014

  • Rajan Kashyap

    Thanks for your welcome and making feel right at home with your hindi!! धन्यवाद! आपकी हिन्दी बहुत अच्छी लगी |

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Abraham Ikponmwosa Imarhiagbe

    Oh  many thanks for this warm welcome!

    Sep 22, 2014

  • Abraham Ikponmwosa Imarhiagbe

    My dear Dr. Gareth,

    I am excited to have as a friend.

    I am a newbie in Occult & magic  ...............looking forward to having a real spell for money that works.

    Please kindly help with one

    Sep 24, 2014

  • Abraham Ikponmwosa Imarhiagbe

    I agree with you on using money to get more money via hard work with some magical applications .

    Hard work and prayers are the only way to go.

    Money don't drop from the sky!

    Sep 28, 2014

  • Bryan

    Thanks for the friendship, Gareth :) Sounds like the years just keep getting better !

    Oct 5, 2014

  • Lisaron

    Thank you for taking the time to welcome us, Dr. Pengwerin. 

    Oct 11, 2014

  • Mihaela

     Thank you Mr. Pengwerin for your kind welcome notes.

    Oct 11, 2014

  • Lisaron

    What does the word 'Koft" mean, pray tell?  As in "Brythonic Koft."  I hope you get a chuckle out of my ignorance.  I'm an American, as you probably surmise.

    Nov 8, 2014

  • Lisaron

    Never mind -- glasses have enabled me to see that the word in question is "Kelt" 

    Nov 8, 2014

  • Catherine Sarah Hislop

    thank you for the friendship

    Dec 26, 2014

  • Kelkel

    Thank you very much for the warm welcome!

    Feb 5, 2015

  • Noxxrogg

    Thank you :)

    Feb 19, 2015

  • Dee Wyatt

    Thank you for the friendly welcome :0)

    Feb 20, 2015

  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    Your words are fair to the hearing and a pleasure to absorb, friend, brother, rider of gallant steed. As sweet claret to the senses and the draught of reassurance that I truly loved to savour this Friday the thirteenth.

    Blessed Be 

    Mar 13, 2015

  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    I saw you swimming with the mermaids on YT this morning, 'old' man :))

    Ride on!

    BB

    Mar 15, 2015

  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    Kidney-schmidneys

    Jade with Bloodstone wand

    Mar 15, 2015

  • Zephonith Serpent Woman

    Mar 16, 2015

  • Ana

    Thankyou for nice warm welcome looking forward to understand myself more by making friends here.:)

    Apr 7, 2015

  • Ana

    ||Jai Mata Di || 

    So beautiful .... 

    Apr 7, 2015

  • Ahzana

    Give thanks for the warm welcome. Bless!!

    Jun 18, 2015

  • Bryan

    Happy Birthday!!

    Jul 3, 2015

  • Bart Zacktron

    Thank you!

    Aug 8, 2015

  • Chris Lovelidge

    Hi, Gareth, thank you for your kind welcome. I have had 4 so far on my first day as member, I like this site already. I am an informal researcher into things energetic. If you are interested I would like to send you my blog address, don't worry if you are not, I do not get offended. Namaste, Chis

    Aug 10, 2015

  • xaint

    Dr Pengwerin it's also pleasing to be greeted by a fellow quantum spirit... Thank you for such a warm welcome. It's very much appreciated.

    Aug 11, 2015

  • xaint

    Thank you for adding me as a friend. ✨✨

    Aug 13, 2015

  • Aaron Cocelli

    Thank you!!

    Aug 15, 2015

  • Circle

    Thank you. I hope this is spiritually fulfilling for us all, this site is amazing. <3

    Aug 15, 2015

  • Flavio Moy

    Thank you for the welcome Dr Gareth! LLL!

    Sep 1, 2015

  • Nata

    Thanks a lot for your warm welcome!

    Sep 13, 2015

  • Ayolin (Starlight)

    Thankyou for the welcome (:

    Sep 20, 2015

  • Jacob Spencer

    Thanks so much for your warm welcome, Dr. Pengwerin. I'm looking forward to learning a great deal from you as I spend time on this forum. Best wishes to you and your family. 

    Oct 5, 2015

  • GenerationOfHope

    thank you for the kind welcome 

    Oct 28, 2015

  • Elaine Melvin

    She is fascinating! Thank you...who might she be?

    Mar 13, 2016

  • Idushka*

     thanks for kind Welcome dear Doc...so lovely put in a language I'm not familiar with anyways ...hope this finds you well and in good spirit dear fare away friend...take care and stay safe ...always merry meet...

    Apr 2, 2016

  • Minque Paw

    Jul 2, 2016

  • SunKat

    Hi,

    I know you don't know me (new admin on the site) but I felt compelled to let you know that after I read the comment you left in the Chronic Pain, Illness, Disability Support Group that you seem incredibly brave and your comment I am sure gives many others encouragement and hope. Thank you.  I do hope you had a wonderful party!

    Jul 11, 2016

  • SunKat

    Lovely pictures!  Thanks so much for sharing them with me :)  Many Blessings to you and yours!

    Jul 17, 2016

  • SunKat

    Thank you for your friendship!

    Aug 2, 2016