GLASTONBURY TOUR DAY 6 WITH MEGALITHOMANIA. 24TH MAY 2017

It was Wednesday morning, the last day of the megalithomania tours and it promised to be another fine day as I sat with my coffee looking out over the fields in front of me. It was warm and sunny with some clouds. We got sorted and went and parked the car in Glastonbury and met up with the team for that day. Shaun was to be our guide for the day. Our first place we were going to visit was Glastonbury Abbey.

(This is one of England's earliest, most important and most fascinating abbeys, providing sanctuary, tranquillity, history and heritage in one special place. Revel in the history. Wander through the grounds - there's something for everyone from 36 acres of parkland to the chance to take a trip on the wild side along the Badger Boardwalk. Visit the legendary burial place of King Arthur or marvel at the Holy Thorn. This is one of England's earliest, most important and most fascinating abbeys, providing sanctuary, tranquillity, history and heritage in one special place. Revel in the history. Wander through the grounds - there's something for everyone from 36 acres of parkland to the chance to take a trip on the wild side along the Badger Boardwalk. Visit the legendary burial place of King Arthur or marvel at the Holy Thorn.)

http://www.glastonburyabbey.com/index.php…

(Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. The abbey controlled large tracts of the surrounding land and was instrumental in major drainage projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539. From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area has been associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. Christian legends have claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey It was about 9.30-10am and the Abbey was quiet, the peace could be felt on entering its grounds. I didn't expect it to be so big! Its scale is deceiving from the small town of Glastonbury. It is a massive area although what is left of the buildings is very little. There is the cook’s area that has an amazing domed roof where the monks would sing and chant when preparing food, we did a little and the sound is amazing. Shaun pointed out certain areas where earth energies and leylines crossed anything I felt energetically that day fell short of my experience at Spinsters rock on Monday. I didn't go to match or compete with my experiences to see what's best, I noticed after the fact. We stayed in the grounds for over an hour I can't remember how long I wasn't timing but I think we were all ready to move on. We came out and walked down the road about a 100 meter where We crossed over and went into a small hidden chapel the name is St Margaret's Chapel and Royal Magdalene Almshouses. http://stmargaretschapel.org.uk/ It has been used as a place of healing and worship for 750 years now. We walked into a small garden area a lot of which was in flower, I took a couple of pictures before going into the very small chapel and sitting for five minutes. It was nice and genital. We spent maybe 20min or so in here and I left feeling I would return here one day myself. We left and headed up towards st johns church which was to be our next place to visit, (The present church replaced an earlier one. Though documentary evidence for St Johns survives only from the later 12th century, other evidence tends to suggest that a church existed on this site at a significantly earlier date.[ According to legend, the original church was built by Saint Dunstan in the tenth century. Recent excavations in the nave have revealed the foundations of a large central tower that possibly dated from Saxon times, and a later Norman nave arcade on the same plan as the existing one. A central tower survived until the 15th Century, but is believed to have collapsed, at which time the church was rebuilt. In the north aisle, 12th century fabric survives in the former Saint Katherine's Chapel. The church was used for shelter by Monmouth's troops in June 1685 during the Monmouth Rebellion. It is also recorded that on four occasions between 1800 and 1804, French prisoners of war were locked up for the night inside the church, presumably whilst in transit. Between 1856-57 the church was restored and reseated by Sir George Gilbert Scott at a cost of £3000, and its gothic character re-emphasized.[5] The church conforms in its entirety to a style of architecture known as Perpendicular Gothic. The church is built of Doulting stone, Street stone and the local Tor burr,[5] and is laid out in a cruciform plan with an aisled nave and a clerestorey of seven bays.) https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_G…http://www.stjohns-glastonbury.org.uk/ Between the three historic buildings, the Abbey chapel and church I could walk in five minutes, it was an easy morning. On the way up to st johns Shaun stopped and disappeared into a shop or something appearing moments later to urge us to follow, we walked through a shop type area and entered a courtyard at the back. It was a very small courtyard with a well in the middle of it. It was a beautifully little area and I had to get a photo of me sitting on the well. I would have never guessed these two hidden treasures this and the chapel were here. I've been twice before and never seen them. A must for anyone visiting Glastonbury looking for a place to find serenity. As soon as we were in, we were out again heading up to the church where on entering the gates I went straight to the maze and walked in and out tapping my staff at each node, I wasn't shown this of course it is something I was led to do each of the times I was there before. I don't know what it is about this tiny little maze that pulls me but it does we went in and looked around the church but truthfully, I had done what I was looking forward to and that was to walk the maze, next time I might look around inside a bit longer and pick up on more of its architecture and paintings, Windows and stuff.It was lunchtime and we were to meet back at the church in an hour to go to our next place called the chalice wells.I got something from the bakers and went up and checked the car was ok, after my experience at the Torr on Sunday I thought I’d better check, it held our drums and all our stuff. It was fine and I went and had a very quick look through some shop windows then took myself back to St. johns church where I met a couple of the ladies on the tour that day sitting under the shade of a tree Vivian & another girl i cant remember her name. We took a couple of pics and spoke for a while.Everyone arrived back on time and we walked up to the chalice wells a few hundred-meter further round and up the top of the town a half mile or so.The chalice wells are set in grounds that have beautiful gardens. (The Chalice Well is among the best known and most loved holy wells in Britain. Many legends are attributed to its chalybeate waters, which flow ceaselessly at a steady rate and temperature that never varies. Not least among these is that they represent the blood of Christ miraculously springing forth from the ground when Joseph of Arimathea buried or washed the cup used at the Last Supper. For others, the waters are acknowledged as the essence of life, the gift from Mother Earth to sustain its living forms and so a continuous spring like Chalice Well is a direct expression of an unbounded life force.To be at the well head, to drink the water and absorb the atmosphere in the gardens can be a truly inspirational experience.) http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/index.…/glastonbury/About.Home (There are a couple of wells one red and the other white, meaning one has more iron and the other more calcium. We went about with Shaun introducing us to the energy lines then I wandered off to the pool where I went and sat with my feet in the water for a time. When we moved on it was just around the corner before our next place that was an old waterworks that had been made into an area people can go and bath in, on each side of the road outside this building are the two wells where people fill bottles for drinking.The Chalice Well is located in the outskirts of Glastonbury. Walking there from the town centre will take 10–15 minutes. Visiting the Well can be combined with a circular walk linking the town centre and the Tor.There is no car parking at the Well site except for disabled people. Cycle parking is available. The bus route from Shepton Mallet to Glastonbury passes the Well garden entrance but due to the road being narrow and busy there is presently no convenient bus stop nearby. The park and ride bus from Glastonbury town centre car park to the Tor will stop on request at the Chalice Well.When the Well and gardens are closed, it is still possible to obtain water from the well as some of the flow is directed via a pipe emerging through the garden wall in Wellhouse Lane. A similar pipe on the opposite side of the lane provides water from the neighbouring White Spring.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalice_Well Our next and final place to visit was to be Glastonbury Torr. (The soft green hill of the Tor, crowned with its enigmatic tower, has become a symbol of Glastonbury. It dominates the town and the surrounding landscape, and is the first sign to the traveller that Glastonbury is drawing near.)(Centuries of legends and folklore have gathered around this Tor. In their various ways, these tales all demonstrate one thing – that the Tor is a place where the veil between the worlds is thin. Strange experiences here are usually interpreted according to the beliefs of the times. An otherworldly being met on the Tor might be called a fairy in one century, a nature spirit in another and ET in more recent years.Like Glastonbury, the Tor has come to host a large variety of mystical beliefs. Nature mythology, paganism, Christian legends, and newer ideas about life the universe and everything have all found a comfortable, nurturing niche for themselves within Tor lore. It’s as if the genius loci of the Tor is an especially powerful spirit of place: able to attract and foster all kinds of ideas, but bigger than all of them – like a giant ancient tree with its ever-changing population of little birds and squirrels.It’s certainly ancient. Modern archaeology agrees with the folklore about that. Many thousands of years ago, the Tor may have been one of seven islands that were left unsubmerged by a great flood. This would make it an important focus of regeneration and life, both symbolically and practically. It may even have been designed as such by those who foresaw the flood, and who deliberately infused the Tor with extra power and intent, thus making it our direct link to an ancient lost world.) Read further on the link mystery tour below for more great information on the torr.I have put a picture of a previous visit I had at night in for an example of the energies that this magical hill gives out. The picture shows a damp night with definite light energy lines coming in or out of the torr. THERE IS NO LIGHT ON OR ANYWHERE NEAR THE TORR. So, what else can it be other than the heartbeat of our mother earth. In my personal opinion it is the heart chakra of gaia. http://www.glastonburytor.org.uk/mysterytor.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor It was a short walk up from the wells. We approached the torr by walking a tarmac path then we detoured off the path onto the grassy slopes of the Torr. Shaun took us further along this track until it disappeared and we were walking on a grassy banking on a path probably made by rabbits as it wasn’t really a path but a channel lol. Yes, this bit was fun. Further along Shaun stopped us and pointed up the hill, this way he said pointing to a near vertical climb that I was sure some would not make. We all climbed up and after a short time arrived at the egg stone Shaun wanted us to see. We sat here for a while chatting and then moved onto the top area of the Torr. Where we spent an hour or so looking around at the views of the countryside. Shaun spoke to us of the landscape pointing out what looks like a dragon laying across the land.After this we went down the other side of the hill to a bell that has been built into a standing stone we each rang the bell to awaken the of spirit of Mary. After this we got back to Glastonbury where we sat outside and had dinner at a lovely little pub. We had a great time just chatting and sharing things about ourselves and having a laugh, it was time to part and we said our farewells. Shaun was the perfect guide for me and I appreciate the time spent with him. It was still nice and sunny when I arrived back at camp where I sat and went over this day’s events. The night crept in and the owls came out again. Another day with a team of great peopleThe next day we drove in the 30 degrees heat of the sun, a long journey but worth every minute. The full week was a great experience and I can't wait to go back again.A few things stick out for me over this week’s visit to Glastonbury, the owls, deer and the quietness of the campsite was amazing. The four things of greatest value are the trip to the cuckoo stone, the buzz I got from spinster’s rock dolmen, the quite of west kennit longbarrow in the evening and most importantly was my service to another human being at the torr carpark on Sunday night .Love & light