The Three Cauldrons of Poesy:
Dreams, Visions and Ancestry
Presented at the IASD Conference, Montreal, 2008
Mary Pat Lynch, PhD
Published by Mary Pat Lynch, 2008
The question I posed for Dreaming Without Borders is this: How can we who are of European descent
connect with the authentic dream traditions of our ancestors? In most cases, those ancient traditions are
so deeply buried that many of us - I, certainly - had no idea such practices ever existed.
And yet today I will tell you about the Three Cauldrons of Poesy, a medieval Irish manuscript that
is weaving itself into contemporary visionary practices, including my own.
My telling takes the form of three stories, a story about a manuscript, a story about what the manuscript
may contain, and a story about how I came to learn about it and what happened after that.
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