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Many years ago, I felt a tangible pull to visit some of the sacred sites of Wiltshire. The urge to go was unexpected, but I obeyed the call.
Arriving at Stonehenge on a warm, overcast day, I was surprised to find that access to the stones was cut off by a low, silly fence. I became increasingly disappointed and angry. The need to touch the Stones was visceral, and I resented the effective ‘quarantining’ of a sacred site that had been accessible for thousands of years.
I was overcome with sadness. I had a sense that an ancient system of spiritual, energy exchange – between the stones, the land and the people – was now disconnected, after thousands of years.
When I arrived at Silbury Hill, hoping to climb to the top, I found it too was inaccessible due to a cave-in. The top and bottom of the hill were fenced off with plastic police tape, like a crime scene. My sadness deepened.
Fast forward to 2020, we now find ourselves confined to barracks, and unable to visit any sacred site. I believe that when we are drawn to these ancient sites, we recharge them and they recharge us – we experience an exchange of information and energy. They sit in a landscape barely touched by our modern world; existing within, but apart from our time-cycle. They are little islands of timelessness. Paul Devereaux in Earth Memory states:
‘These places embody perennial knowledge, which means that it is both old and new simultaneously, a wisdom for all seasons. However long ago this perennial knowledge or wisdom was encoded and used, it is forever relevant. We can access it now at these ancient places, and bring it into our contemporary stream of consciousness where it can fuse with what is good and wholesome in modern thought and knowledge. We need to start to thinking of ancient monuments as memory banks in the landscape: after all, as consciousness researcher, John Steele, has pointed out, the very word ‘monument’ derives from a Latin term meaning ‘to remind’ ‘
Once again, we are being disconnected from our ‘memory banks’ at a time when we desperately need access to them. If we can’t access them physically, we can perhaps interact with them via our thoughts, imagination and psychic faculties.
Jacky and I have been focusing on Glastonbury (as the heart chakra of the world) and the sacred sites along the Michael ley line. Mystic Wellesley Tudor Pole, who founded the Chalice Well Trust, wrote about the need for a revival of pilgrimages to the sites along the Michael line, from Glastonbury through the West Country to St. Michael’s Mount at the far end of Cornwall.
One wonderful way to do this virtually is via an incredible video created by Paul Weston Here. The music is incredible, and the evocative images help us tune in to the energy and memory bank of Glastonbury and experience a virtual pilgrimage.
Kate