

Over several years from 1938 Peig dictated 350 ancient legends, ghost stories, folk stories, and religious stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission (while another source tallies 432 items collected by Ó Dálaigh from her, some 5,000 pages of material). He then sent the manuscript pages to Máire Ní Chinnéide in Dublin, who edited them for publication. Peig was illiterate in the Irish language, having received her early schooling through the medium of English. In the 1930s a Dublin teacher, Máire Ní Chinnéide, who was a regular visitor to the Blaskets, urged Peig to tell her life story to her son Mícheál.

He recorded them and brought them to the attention of the academic world. Flower was keenly appreciative of Peig Sayers' stories. The Norwegian scholar Carl Marstrander, who visited the island in 1907, urged Robin Flower of the British Museum to visit the Blaskets. She and Pádraig had eleven children, of whom six survived. Peig moved to the Great Blasket Island after marrying Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island, on 13 February 1892. She had expected to join her best friend Cáit Boland in America, but Cáit wrote that she had had an accident and could not forward the cost of the fare. She spent the next few years as a domestic servant working for members of the growing middle class produced by the Land War. She spent two years there before returning home due to illness. At the age of 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle, where she said she was well treated. Her father Tomás Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret "Peig" Brosnan, from Castleisland. The Kabalarian Philosophy offers a complete guide to life.She was born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry, the youngest child of the family. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore your potential to itsįurthest limits and bring you to a point of unsurpassed harmony and success. Which you can take personal control and ownership. You will discover the keys to a healthy, happy life for Peig, we encourage you to look into the Kabalarian Philosophy. You can lift yourself out of sicknessĪnd disease and create a happy life and healthy body, but to regain health you must live in harmony with the natural laws. The knowledge of the principle of right living and apply yourself conscientiously. Nature is a hard taskmaster but very just, for no matter how far one has degenerated physically you may seek Of mind and the harmonious constructive thinking pattern that is necessary for the continued functioning of the body. It must be borne in mind that the most important factor in the concept of proper digestion lies with the balance

The mind interferes through worry, tension, intensity, moods, and reactions of all kinds, the interference limits and disturbs theĭigestive process. Where the mind controls, improvement can be recognized. Perfection, understanding that the body itself will function to some degree independently of the mind's control, as it functionsĪutomatically and instinctively in the natural digestive process. However, since no one is perfect we must recognize the limitation of the mind to control the body to such We must keep in mind that the body is the instrument of the mind and, under perfect conditions, will perform exactly as Invisible forces that focus upon the physical body through the letters of the name be balanced to create health and relaxation. Tension created in any part of the body through an over predominance of any particular number, then poisons from theīloodstream would be carried away through the natural channels of elimination. There must be relaxation to allow the bloodstream to rebuild broken down, worn out body tissues. Importance of one's constructive mental attitude toward life.

Peig, it cannot be stressed too deeply the Remember that happy thoughts are healthy thoughts." Fear plays one of the greatest parts in the drama of health versus sickness. Particularly, and teaches how a balanced mind may be acquired with its attendant peace of mind, health, and This, the Kabalarian Philosophy stresses most Parker wrote, "The greatest key to health and mental evolution is the present In extreme cases, mental turmoil, major stomach operations, and accidents of a serious nature could occur. You also would have a sensitivity in your solar plexus. The intensity of your nature would cause you to suffer in the senses of the head, as well as with digestive problems.
