Fasting Buddha, Bronze, 13ft Wisdom Seat, Granite, 9ft. ‘Tiffany’, Black Granite, 9ft Fionn, the Druid Fibre, 18ft 6ins The Druid’s navigator

Victor’s Way Druid – Hindu philosophic labyrinth Victor’s Way (to wit: ‘Winner take all’, so Darwin) was originally designed (in 1990) for independents (hence adults) seeking to briefly put their stressful world on standby and contemplate serendipitous Nirvana. In other words, Victor’s Way is a contemplative space for adults and not a fun park for families. Should you feel the crude urge to momentarily step out of your philosophic straight jacket and into my somewhat scurrilous one, try me on Instagram. The garden contains 7 major black granite and/or bronze sculptures each one highlighting one of life’s critical psychological development thresholds. A further 35 minor sculptures serve to increase the degree of benign distraction. The sheer size and magnificence of the hand carved granite sculptures help the fully mindful and engaged pilgrim to the nether region of dark NI (i.e. Natural Intelligence) to reconnect to his or her early life capacity for wonder, awe and, of course, uncontrollably excited exhilaration. Victor’s Way was completed in 2010. However, the Way then unexpectedly evolved into the unpredictable and never ending with the emergence of the Goddess Tiffany, an (Egyptian) scarab rolling a philosopher’s turd and which represents the universal recycling and regeneration function. And finally, with the arrival of the Fionn, the Druid (2025) sculpture, and for which a wholly unique contemplatory has been created, Victor’s Way has re-volved as an illicit for a craic agus ceol culture (John Scotus Erigena excepted) means of releasing the druid’s dark knowledge of the universal procedure of natural self-emergence (hence self-assembly) and of one’s self as brief and very limited local iteration thereof. More … All the sculptures were designed in Roundwood. Since no one could be found in Ireland to do the hard labour the sculptures were crafted in a dedicated workshop in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, South India by the artist D.V. Murugan et al. Please note that Victor’s Way is not suitable for children between 6 and 29! It is not!!! a fun park for families. Ideally the visitor should come alone, or at least walk the garden alone. Chatty companions, children and dogs, though no doubt wonder inspiring iterations of the Universal Creation Procedure, should not be brought since they conduce to disrupting the serenity of the contemplative ambience and the contemplative’s concentration, Mobile phone use, save for photography, should be a no-no. Smoking is permitted. Random walk, though wholly natural and universally de rigueur, is not advised in this special case. Ideally the contemplative, and who ‘is god in his/her space,’ (so the Upanishads) should use the benches and forest recliners provided to absorb into his or her inner world and thereafter into the eternal canvas of nature wherein each emergent, i.e. you and/or me, functions momentarily as a more, or less excited pixel. The garden covers some 15 acres. The forest path is about 2kms long and it takes about 1 hour to get around. There are several unsecured ponds, meaning that extreme care should be taken if accompanied by children. Unless the weather is perfect, wearing outdoor clothes and watertight shoes is a must. Your visit Victor’s Way is at your own risk. The admission fee of €10.- (+ booking charges) per adult (children go in free) helps defray the running costs of the garden and the production and transportation of final 2 sculptures, namely ‘Tiffany’ and the ‘Druid’. Recently the senescent promotor of this contemplative space outed himself as a druid espousing unverifiable quantum field inferences and which is why, for obvious reasons, Victor’s Way will close for good at the end of the summer of 2025.