{"product_id":"shape-of-the-sacred-kenneth-r-white-9798248470471","title":"Shape of the Sacred: Irish Druidry and the Way of Attentive Relation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the older Irish imagination, the sacred was not an abstraction removed from life. It was a condition that shaped how one stood within land, speech, memory, and obligation. Sovereignty was not symbolic. Speech was not casual. Thresholds were not metaphorical. They were binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShape of the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e examines Irish myth, custom, and triadic thought as a coherent way of standing rather than as fragments of folklore. Drawing from early sources and landscape tradition, Kenneth R. White articulates what he calls the Way of Attentive Relation: a disciplined posture toward land, speech, sovereignty, consequence, and restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work does not attempt ritual reconstruction, nor does it offer romantic revivalism. Instead, it explores formation - how alignment occurs, how authority is recognized, and how consequence follows from stance. Through careful reading of mythic episodes and structural themes, the book presents Irish tradition not as symbolic allegory, but as an ethical cosmology grounded in lived relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Irish myth, Druidic practice, and Celtic thought, \u003ci\u003eShape of the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rigorous and integrated framework for understanding the sacred as something enacted rather than imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth R. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248470471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Kenneth R. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084094611711,"sku":"9798248470471","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shape-of-the-sacred-kenneth-r-white-9798248470471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}