The Bard Summer School has been ever present offering since 1995. It became a special week on Clare Island year after year. The opportunity to immerse in a myth and to work through all the stages of the Mythic Method meant it was a ‘deep immersion’. The welcome of the Islanders and their very special “Island Storytelling Night:” was also much appreciated. The annual trip to Clare Island seemed to live up to the Eliade promise that “the crossing of water is always a change of state and a change of status”.