Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy
Step into Ireland’s sacred landscapes and pre-Celtic spiritual wisdom to engage shamanic practices rooted in ancient sites, elemental forces, and mythic beings — cultivating healing, intuition, and spiritual evolution through direct, embodied experiences.
Across Ireland, there are places where the land remembers.
Stone circles aligned to the cosmos. Wells that have drawn pilgrims for thousands of years. Caves, mounds, and hills where the veil between worlds has always been thin.
According to Ireland’s oldest stories, these sacred sites are home to the Tuatha Dé Danann — ancient pre-Celtic beings of wisdom, power, and nature who shaped the land and continue to dwell within it as guardians of healing, prophecy, and renewal.
Irish scholar and spiritual teacher Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy affirms that these are not simply legends sourced from the mists of antiquity, but living forces encountered through place and practice.
Join Dr. Karen in her new 7-week course, where you’ll journey through Ireland’s sacred landscapes, myths, and elemental practices to rediscover a living relationship with the land, the unseen, and your own inner knowing.
Rooted in pre-Celtic spiritual wisdom, this journey invites you into a living relationship with the Tuatha Dé Danann — not as distant deities, but as forces of healing, guidance, and transformation that can be felt and engaged today.
Having grown up in Ireland, Dr. Karen understands its sacred sites not as ancieint stories, but as presences woven into daily life, into the land, and into the turning of the seasons.
Ireland has always known something the modern world has forgotten: wisdom doesn’t live only in ideas, it lives in land, water, stone, and story — in places that have been prayed on, walked on, wept on, and listened to for thousands of years.
And when you spend time with those places — really spend time — they can open access to deeper insight, ancestral memory, and guidance beyond thought.
Each week, you’ll engage a different aspect of this tradition through story, place, and practice, allowing healing, insight, and inner evolution to unfold naturally.
You’ll be grounded in the story — what these places are, who lived in relationship with them, and why the mythology arose exactly where it did. You’ll see the landscapes, the carvings, and the monuments and gain an understanding of how the land itself shaped the wisdom.
Then, you’ll be guided into experiential practices working with water, breath, attention, imagination, and the elements to bring those ancient ways of knowing into your own life.
You’ll experience how healing wells, divination, sacred language, and thin places connect our world to the realms beyond the veil in ways that are grounded, personal, and immediately accessible in your everyday life.
Dr. Karen will guide you through experiential practices that help you feel what ancient people felt when they stood at a well, watched the clouds, entered a cave, or marked the turning of the seasons.
You’ll discover how to create a thin place in your own home, an energetic threshold where reflection deepens, guidance becomes clearer, and connection with the worlds that exist alongside this one becomes possible.
By the end of these seven weeks, you won’t just have learned about Irish mythology. You’ll have lived inside it and learned practices for healing, release, divination, renewal, and connection that are simple, grounded, and repeatable.
You’ll start listening differently to the elements, to language, and to your inner world... and may even notice something subtle but significant: a deeper sense of belonging to life itself.
During this soul-enriching course, you’ll:
- Develop embodied practices for healing, release, divination, and renewal that you can return to for the rest of your life
- Understand the Tuatha Dé Danann not as folklore curiosities, but as ancient intelligences tied to land, sovereignty, and the unseen realms
- Create personal rituals and sacred spaces that allow you to access thin places and An Saol Eile, or “The Otherworld,” wherever you live
- Explore the sacred sites of Ireland and learn how to work directly with mythic beings, the elements, and seasonal cycles as living sources of guidance
- Strengthen your intuitive perception by learning how to read signs, patterns, and messages through water, fire, air, land, and language
- Cultivate the courage to let go of what no longer serves you and move through change with trust in natural cycles
- Experience words, symbols, and myth as living forces that can support purpose, inspiration, and inner knowing
- Reconnect with a felt sense of continuity beyond loss or separation, including comfort around grief and the presence of ancestors or loved ones
- And much more...
Dr. Karen’s teaching weaves historical knowledge, mythological literacy, and experiential practices. She has a rare ability to translate ancient traditions into practices that remain meaningful and relevant today. Rather than presenting mythology as distant lore, Dr. Karen invites you into direct relationship with the land and its intelligence.
Be prepared to embark on a magical journey to integrate ancient mythic wisdom into your life, and learn accessible practices that can help you experience a deeper connection with yourself and the world.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-week transformational course, Dr. Karen will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully access wisdom, healing, and guidance through ancient Irish practices that reconnect you with land, lineage, and the unseen in a way that’s experiential and enduring.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Dr. Karen and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Dr. Karen’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions on 2026-03-03 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Dr. Karen. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to gain lifelong tools for moving through change with trust, courage, and a deeper sense of belonging.
Module 1: Invoke Sacred Healing Through Brigid’s Living Waters (2026-03-03 9:00:00 am)
Her power was closely tied to sacred sites around Ireland, especially the Holy Well of Kildare, where people sought relief, renewal, and guidance and the nurturing influence of a goddess devoted to health, wholeness, and transformation. The wells embody the belief in the inherent power of nature to heal and provide sustenance, a belief that connects people to both land and spirit.
This session explores Brigid’s healing wells as living conduits of restoration, wisdom, and continuity, honored in pagan traditions and in Christianity as St. Brigid. Timed with Imbolc, an ancient Celtic fire festival marking the beginning of spring, this class invites you into a direct, embodied relationship with water as a healing force for yourself, all beings, and the planet.
In this session, you’ll:
- Journey through a guided healing meditation to invoke Brigid’s presence and enter a personal thin place through water
- Learn the mythic history of the Tuatha Dé Danann and how their legacy lives on through wells, the Sí, and sacred geography
- Experience water as a living medium for healing, renewal, and energetic transmission
- Discover how Brigid is honored across pagan and Christian lineages, bridging ancient and enduring traditions
- Learn how to create your own empowered healing well wherever you live to support your wellbeing, loved ones, the wider community, and the Earth
Module 2: Release the Old to Embrace Life’s Transformative Cycles With the Callieach (2026-03-10 9:00:00 am)
Far from a symbol of decay, the Cailleach embodies the necessary power of clearing, breaking down what has outlived its purpose so something new can arise. She governs the turning of seasons, appearing at harvest and Samhain as the force that guides life from fullness into rest, and eventually from hag to maiden as spring returns.
Associated with liminal landscapes of Ireland like Hag’s Head and Slieve na Calliagh, she invites you to trust change, face the unknown, and discover the freedom that comes from letting go.
In this session, you’ll:
- Enter a guided ritual of release and renewal to shed something you’ve been carrying that no longer serves you
- Work with the Cailleach’s wisdom to move through endings with strength, dignity, and self-trust
- Learn how seasonal cycles of harvest, winter, and rebirth mirror your own inner transformations
- Receive insight into what’s ready to fall away so new life can take shape
- Cultivate resilience and courage as you step forward lighter, clearer, and more aligned
Module 3: Read the Living World to Receive Timeless Guidance With the Ancient Druidic Art of Divination (2026-03-17 9:00:00 am)
Step into the worldview of the ancient Druids of Ireland — learned philosophers, judges, healers, and seers who guided society through both law and spiritual insight.
For them, divination wasn’t superstition but a disciplined practice of reading patterns in the natural world to understand hidden causes and emerging possibilities. Using the elements as allies, Druids observed clouds, flames, water, and earth to receive guidance that aligned human decisions with cosmic and seasonal rhythms. Their legal and spiritual systems were notably egalitarian, honoring women as equals and valuing balance over dominance.
Anchored in sacred sites such as Hill of Tara, Sí an Bhrú (Newgrange), and Rathcroghan, this session reconnects you with divination as a living, accessible skill — one that can guide your creativity, choices, and sense of belonging within the natural world.
In this session, you’ll:
- Practice elemental divination through a guided experience using clouds, flame, or water, choosing the element you feel most drawn to
- Learn how Druids used air, fire, water, and earth to receive insight, prophecy, and guidance
- Strengthen your intuitive perception and your ability to read patterns and signs in nature
- Explore the historical role of Druids as judges, lawmakers, and spiritual advisors in an egalitarian society
- Gain a lifelong method for accessing wisdom, inspiration, and guidance the same way people did thousands of years ago
Module 4: Channel the Ogham Alphabet to Speak Your Soul’s Truth (2026-03-24 9:00:00 am)
Enter the realm of Ogma, the deity of eloquence, literacy, and inspired strength. Credited with the creation of the Ogham alphabet, Ogma understood words as living forces capable of shaping memory, identity, and destiny. Ogham — still carved on stones across Ireland — was used to mark boundaries, preserve lineage, and reveal unseen truths through divination.
Far more than writing, it functioned as a sacred technology linking human intention with the deeper order of existence. Anchored in the ancient stones of Ballycrovane Ogham Stone, this session invites you into an altered, receptive state where language arises not from the thinking mind, but from inner knowing, allowing inspiration, guidance, and meaning to emerge directly through you.
In this session, you’ll:
- Enter an altered, receptive state and receive inspiration to write a personal 7-line Ogham poem
- Learn the origins of Ogma and the sacred function of the Ogham alphabet in Irish spiritual life
- Create a personalized Ogham sigil (an inscribed symbol) to support insight, intention, and direction on your path
- Channel a mantra aligned with where you are right now, drawn from symbolic language rather than analysis
- Discover how to access creativity and wisdom from within, letting words arise naturally instead of forcing them
Module 5: Experience Renewal Through the Dagda’s Gateway (2026-03-31 9:00:00 am)
You’ll focus on The Dagda, the great father and guiding force of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Known as the “good god,” the Dagda presided over Earth, time, seasons, life, and death, holding the rhythms that sustain continuity across worlds.
He is intimately associated with Sí an Bhrú (Newgrange), a 5,000-year-old monument precisely aligned so that solstice light illuminates its inner chamber for a brief, sacred window each year. This site is understood as a thin place, where worlds meet and renewal becomes possible.
Through the Dagda’s archetype — his cauldron of endless nourishment and harp that calls the seasons — you’re invited into an embodied experience of rebirth, remembrance, and reassurance that life continues beyond visible form.
In this session, you’ll:
- Enter a Dagda-inspired practices to experience renewal, continuity, and connection across worlds
- Explore Sí an Bhrú as a living gateway where the veil between realms grows thin
- Reflect on areas of your life ready for release and welcome a sense of rebirth aligned with natural cycles
- Work with the Dagda’s symbols of nourishment, rhythm, and restoration to support emotional and spiritual balance
- Receive comfort and perspective around loss or grief through a felt sense of ongoing connection with loved ones
Module 6: Receive Prophetic Insight With The Morrigan to Navigate Change With Courage (2026-04-07 9:00:00 am)
Encounter the Morrígan, the Phantom Queen — goddess of prophecy, sovereignty, and profound transformation. A master shapeshifter who moves between forms and worlds, she presides over thresholds where endings and beginnings converge.
Often appearing as a crow, she reveals the patterns that govern fate, courage, and collective change, offering warning and guidance rather than comfort. Her domain includes the ancient cave of Oweynagat (Uaimh na gCait), a powerful liminal site associated with Samhain, when the veil thins and prophetic sight sharpens.
You’ll be invited into her threefold nature — power animal, shapeshifting, and prophecy — so you can meet uncertainty with discernment, receive a guiding vision, and listen for the wisdom the world is asking to hear now.
In this session, you’ll:
- Enter a guided journey to meet your power animal and receive a personal prophecy as an aspiration for your life
- Work with the Morrígan’s shapeshifting wisdom to see your circumstances from new perspectives
- Explore the prophetic tradition linked to Samhain and the thinning of the veil
- Cultivate courage and discernment when facing conflict, change, or decisive moments
- Reflect on the message the world most needs right now and how you’re meant to carry it forward
Module 7: Explore “Thin Places” to Commune With the Otherworld (2026-04-14 9:00:00 am)
In this culminating module, you’ll explore Ireland’s “Thin Places” — landscapes where the boundary between the physical world and An Saol Eile, or “The Otherworld,” becomes permeable.
These sites — including the fairy fort of Grange Stone Circle, Rathcroghan, and the Hill of Tara — are traditionally associated with the Tuatha Dé Danann, the ancient powers later remembered as the Sí and linked to fairy mounds, raths, and hawthorn-guarded earthworks. Folklore holds these places as living thresholds that demand respect; to disturb them is to disrupt an ancient balance.
Drawing together the landscapes and teachings from throughout the journey — without centering a single deity — you’ll be invited to recognize thin places not only in Ireland, but in your own surroundings. You’ll learn how reverence, prayer, and simple ritual can attune you to these subtle crossings, allowing contact with ancestral presence, gratitude, and the deep intelligence of place.
In this session, you’ll:
- Create a personal thin place at home using simple objects, prayer, and intention to attune your space
- Learn how fairy mounds, raths, and sacred trees function as portals to An Saol Eile
- Explore why the Tuatha Dé Danann were later reframed as “fairies” and what that shift obscured
- Practice offerings and gratitude to build respectful relationship with place and presence
- Sense where the veil is light around your own home and return there for guidance, connection, and remembrance
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Dr. Karen’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Thin Places & Ancestral Fields: How Sacred Landscapes Awaken Ancestral Healing
Video Dialogue With Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy and Dr. Lotte Valentin
In this illuminating 44-minute bonus dialogue, Dr. Lotte Valentin and Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy explore the mystery of “thin places” — sacred, liminal landscapes where the veil feels lighter and your ancestral field becomes easier to sense. You’ll discover how place-based energy, devotion, and lineage memory quietly shape emotional patterns held in the body. As their conversation unfolds, you’ll learn how simple presence and nervous system grounding can help you feel safe enough to perceive what’s been hidden or forgotten. This dialogue invites you to experience belonging not as something you strive for, but as something you remember. You’ll come away with insights you can bring into daily life, supporting deeper steadiness, connection, and healing.
New Year Spirit Messages
Live Video Event With Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy on Tuesday, April 21, at 9:00am Pacific
In this live, one-hour mediumship event, you’ll witness heartfelt messages delivered directly from loved ones in spirit to members of the room, offering moments of recognition, healing, and reassurance. During the first part, you’ll experience several evidential readings, allowing you to feel how love and consciousness continue beyond the physical world. In the second part, you’ll be gently taught how to sense and recognize your own loved ones in spirit, even if you’ve never tried before. You’ll be guided into a state of attunement where the veil between worlds feels thinner and more accessible. You’ll leave with a felt experience of connection, and a deeper trust in your own capacity to perceive love that never ends.
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Join the Global Community
Journey With the Tuatha Dé Danann Through Mystical Ireland offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from medium and spiritual teacher Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to access wisdom, healing, and guidance through ancient Irish practices that reconnect you with land, lineage, and the unseen in a way that’s experiential and enduring. Course sessions are on 2026-03-03 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Journey With the Tuatha Dé Danann Through Mystical Ireland
We feel honored that Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a medium and scholar whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning practical, embodied ways to work with myth, ritual, and the elements so you can navigate change, receive guidance, and feel supported by forces older than memory, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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If you don’t absolutely LOVE Journey With the Tuatha Dé Danann Through Mystical Ireland — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before March 17, 2026 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Dr. Karen Frances McCarthy
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Karen Frances McCarthy, PhD, CSNU, is an Irish scholar, award-holding Spiritualist medium, and author whose work bridges Celtic heritage, consciousness studies, and spiritual connection.
She holds a Doctorate in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University School of Professional Studies, where she teaches contemporary spectral and speculative fiction. Her academic research explores re-enchantment, postsecular culture, and survival research, with particular attention to the sacred in modern life.
Karen is the author of Till Death Don’t Us Part and the forthcoming The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Spectral Fiction. Trained at Arthur Findlay College and certified in mediumship, spiritual healing, and grief counselling, she integrates ethical Spiritualist practice, Celtic myth, Zen principles, and scholarly insight into her teaching and guidance.
She lectures internationally and online, inspiring students to experience clarity, enduring love, and a deeper understanding of consciousness. Her work with the Tuatha Dé Danann and ancestral traditions illuminates the power, wisdom, and Divine Feminine embedded in Ireland’s ancient spiritual imagination.
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