Gordon MacLellan, or Creeping Toad, works as an environmental educator and follows a shamanic spiritual practice. Born of Scottish Presbyterian parents in 1959 he grew up in the new town of Cumbernauld. After studying Zoology at Glasgow University he taught for three years in Malawi, where he almost died of malaria. Returning to Britain he became a country park warden, and now works freelance in educational and environmental situations. He is the administrator for the Sacred Earth Drama Trust and writes extensively on shamanism.
"There's a group of us who work together, and I'm the only one who's human. Some of them have been with me for thirty years, some just come visiting. There's a core of about five of us. Most days I'll stop for an hour or so, just to be with them, to meditate, perhaps to dance. I slip out of this world and into the spirit world."
"As a shaman I work with vision. In your life there's a spirit that's you, that inspires you, that gives you character. And it's trying to live out a particular pattern within the universe at this time."