We’re Going to Need More Priests

Merlin and Gandalf - architects of kingship and priestly instruments

Wherever you are sitting or standing right now, stop what you’re doing and imagine your location 1,000 years ago. Chances are, it was a rural landscape. You’d be surrounded by Nature. No background mechanical sounds at all. Birdsong would be louder and more varied; the air would be thick with insects, not least varieties of bees. It would smell differen…