What do you mean by Awen? Do you use it in ritual? Do you call it in, seek it, meditate upon it, channel it?
Kris Hughes : In our grove we teach that the Awen perpetually sings and calls to us, in ritual we assume its shape of the three rays using our bodies and chanting the three sacred vowels of Awen. Awakening the song of Awen within us we sing in unison with it, allowing it to consciously dance in and out of our circle, teasing the spirit to inspire and create.
Phil Ryder : The Awen, divine inspiration, flows constantly around and through us, in ritual we seek to connect and consciously add our song to the symphony of the universe. More than that we crave inspiration, listening to that song, seeking understanding. In ritual we can express that inspiration in creativity, we manifest it in this world in song, in poetry, in any way we can because it cannot remain static within us, it must flow.
Emma Restall Orr : Very seldom do I ever chant the awen in my own rites, and infrequently do we do so in my Grove, but we speak of it, holding it as the heart of what we strive for. In my own ritual, it is through exquisitely true relationship with my gods, ancestors, and spirits of place that the awen floods through, in realization, connection, touch, soul to soul. In larger open rites, such as those at camp or in gorseddau, the awen is most often chanted, focusing the gathering and reminding each one present: at such times, chanting can be a beautiful and effective invocation of the sacred, waking the spirits of place to our presence, and us to theirs.
Ximena Eduarda : Once the ritual has started, while I connect with myself, I look for Awen until I meet once again with its igneous fire, until I feel in its cohesive force the cohesion of my own being, until I am in its perpetuity the one resonating beyond time and space, simply and deeply until I am myself through inspiration and illumination maintaining life in my life. Then, when all its potency is in me, I proceed. It could be an instant or take a little longer in real time; it does not have time within.