Ministry of Eco-Nature Spirituality

Rodney G. Karr, Ph.D., the leader and founder of Five Shaman Circles in addition to being a liscenced psychologist, is also cheif Druid of the Grove of Manannan Mac Lir Grove of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He has studied with OBOD for over twelve years and has been an initiated OBOD Druid for eight years, and cheif Druid of Manannan Mac Lir Grove of the OBOD for eight years. Manannan Mac Lir Grove is an official recognized grove of the international organization of OBOD. For further information see: Druidry-SF.org, and Druidry.org.

Additionally Dr. Karr is a liscened ordained minister with an interdenominational 501(c)3 church, the association for the Integration for the Whole Person, which has over nine hundred congregations comprised of a multitude of religious and spiritual orientations. For more info about the AIWP, see: The AIWP website.

Dr. Karr was ordained by AIWP in 1995 as a minister of eco-nature spirituality. Manannan Mac Lir Grove was recently chartered as a congregation of AIWP, with Dr. Karr serving as its minister. Manannan Mac Lir Grove is now therefore an official 501(c)3 church.

For more detailed information, concerning Dr. Karr's eco-nature spiritual ministry, click on to the Organizational History and Mission Statement of the Monarch Bear Institute: (http://www.monarchbear.org ).

Dr. Karr is also the director and founder of the Monarch Bear Institute which is currently seeking 501(c)3 status as an educational non-profit institute. Monarch Bear Institute is a daughter organization of Manannan Mac Lir Grove, and is affiliated with it. The Monarch Bear Institute and Manannan Mac Lir Grove are dedicated to ecology, our mother earth, and the creation of land-trusts, to protect the sacred earth.














Melvin Suhd, Founder and Director of the AIWP