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Taking five…
Stuart arrived late Tuesday evening and the Burgundy ensured we talked till the small hours as usual. We were, however, ready to roll early next morning. By the time my son phoned to ask if we would be...
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A date for the diary
Thursday 5th June ‘The Song in the Silence’ with the Silent Eye School of Consciousness The Enneagram: Its spiritual history and modern use Gurdjieff brought the Enneagram to the West in 1912....
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Finally….
We arrived in Glastonbury some five hours after we had left my home… for a hundred and twenty mile journey through an ancient landscape that isn’t bad going. It could have taken much longer… There is a...
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A visit to Pilton
Magdalene window, St John the Baptist, Glastonbury Thursday morning we ended up at St John’s in Glastonbury once more, to have another look at the window in the north transept, in St Catherine’s...
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Stoned in Glastonbury
On Thursday we will be in Glastonbury again. By ‘we’ I mean Steve, Stuart and myself on behalf of The Silent Eye, for the fourth of our talks under the aegis of the Glastonbury Reception Centre. The...
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Baring the soul
Time, as always, passed quickly and the two hours had flown. Once more we and half those who had attended as well as some who had been unable to join us earlier, had congregated at the George where a...
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Six miles
We called at Marlborough on our way to Glastonbury; an ancient town full of history where buildings of all periods cluster round a wide high street. The effect is sadly spoiled by the sheer volume of...
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Up one hill….
Leaving the church it was obvious I wasn’t going to be able to turn the car round and head on back down the hill, but anyway…up was better if we could drive rather than walk! We really didn’t have...
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Glastonbury again
Ani has gone to her friends overnight as I am heading down to Glastonbury in the morning for the fifth of the Silent Eye talks.. do come and join us if you can! First I will, of course, be swinging by...
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….and relax
The Avenue I stopped, of course, at Silbury Hill on the way to Glastonbury; it has become a tradition, even though my travelling companion was unable to join us this time. The road seems longer alone,...
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The Silent Eye in Glastonbury – December
In our final talk this year, the Glaston School of Learning and the Silent Eye present: The Secret Language of Esoteric Christianity The versions of Christianity we have inherited from our cultural...
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The Glastonbury Sanctuary – be a part of it
Last year Steve, Stuart and myself as Directors of The Silent Eye were privileged to give a series of talks in Glastonbury, a place known to folklore, legend and to the hearts of many as Avalon, the...
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Mistletoe
This picture was taken in early spring last year, just as the world began to warm itself in the pale sunlight. The place was Pilton, a little village near Glastonbury with a legendary history as big...
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Going west – a simple man
Behind the High Altar of St Davids Cathedral there was once an empty space, open to the winds. In the early 1500s, Bishop Edward Vaughan created a chapel there which, for me, is the loveliest part of...
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A flying visit…
“Look!” The first kite fell in a tumbling dive, just a few yards away from us. The great wings folded to allow it to just skim the grass. We watched from the car as first one, then another of the …...
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Auld acquaintance…
We had stopped for cider at the Apple Tree on the way, which is not quite a tradition yet, but we are working on that. It is Somerset, after all, and the Orchard Pig is brewed locally. There was...
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On Beltane Eve…
There is probably nowhere else in the country where you can walk through a residential estate on a Saturday morning, in full ceremonial robes and with magical symbols painted on your forehead, without...
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Introducing David Greenaway – Town Crier of Glastonbury
We spent May Day weekend in Glastonbury this year with Alienora and our friends… and one of the people unmistakably at the centre of the festivities was David Greenaway, the Town Crier. The traditional...
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