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Beschreibung
Spiritual Stone Bothering is a field companion for travellers who feel places as much as they visit them. It lingers where this book truly lingers: Iona's abbey, wells, and shore paths; the basalt cathedral of Staffa; Mull's circles and lone uprights; the Callanish stones on Lewis; Orkney's cairns and early Christian traces; Aberdeenshire's recumbent stone circles; the carved riches of Kilmartin Glen; Arran's Machrie Moor and Holy Isle; and a weave of East Lothian sites from old stones to St Baldred's haunts. There's also a short city pause-Edinburgh & Glasgow-to point you toward museum treasures that sharpen the eye before you head back out into weather and wind.

This isn't a checklist. It's a way of seeing. With a simple, practice-based (Goethean-tinged) approach, the book slows you down to notice rock and plant, tide and air-and how your inner weather answers back. Along the way, you'll meet Pictish symbol stones and watch their quiet metamorphosis from standing stone to cross (Class I-III), not as a lecture but as a living change in the landscape.

Whether you're packing for the islands or reading by the fire, Spiritual Stone Bothering helps you listen for what the land is saying-and travel with care.

Renatus Derbidge is a Scotland-based writer, guide, and Goethean natural scientist. He leads small journeys with Sacred Isles: Exploring the Mysteries in Stones, Wind, and Sky.
Spiritual Stone Bothering is a field companion for travellers who feel places as much as they visit them. It lingers where this book truly lingers: Iona's abbey, wells, and shore paths; the basalt cathedral of Staffa; Mull's circles and lone uprights; the Callanish stones on Lewis; Orkney's cairns and early Christian traces; Aberdeenshire's recumbent stone circles; the carved riches of Kilmartin Glen; Arran's Machrie Moor and Holy Isle; and a weave of East Lothian sites from old stones to St Baldred's haunts. There's also a short city pause-Edinburgh & Glasgow-to point you toward museum treasures that sharpen the eye before you head back out into weather and wind.

This isn't a checklist. It's a way of seeing. With a simple, practice-based (Goethean-tinged) approach, the book slows you down to notice rock and plant, tide and air-and how your inner weather answers back. Along the way, you'll meet Pictish symbol stones and watch their quiet metamorphosis from standing stone to cross (Class I-III), not as a lecture but as a living change in the landscape.

Whether you're packing for the islands or reading by the fire, Spiritual Stone Bothering helps you listen for what the land is saying-and travel with care.

Renatus Derbidge is a Scotland-based writer, guide, and Goethean natural scientist. He leads small journeys with Sacred Isles: Exploring the Mysteries in Stones, Wind, and Sky.
Über den Autor
Dr. Renatus Derbidge is a writer, researcher, and guide based in Scotland. He studied Biology, Geography, and Philosophy in Berlin and completed a PhD in chronobiology, focusing on the mistletoe. He later worked for several years at the Natural Science Section of the Goetheanum in Dornach, [...] moving to Scotland in 2018, he has developed Sacred Isles, a programme of residential courses, guided journeys, and workshops exploring the relationship between perception, landscape, and cultural memory-particularly in the sacred sites of the Celtic [...] work is grounded in a Goethean, phenomenological approach to science and experience, emphasising direct perception as a path to deeper understanding. He has taught widely, including in Waldorf education and adult learning contexts, and has published numerous articles in European journals on perception, nature, and the meeting of science and spirituality.Spiritual Stone Bothering reflects his ongoing attempt to bring a more attentive, relational way of encountering place into contemporary life.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Produktart: Reiseführer
Region: Europa
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781036956349
ISBN-10: 1036956342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Derbidge, Renatus
Hersteller: Sacred Isles Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Renatus Derbidge
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2026
Gewicht: 0,478 kg
Artikel-ID: 135166937

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