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The Archangel Michael/Apollo Ley Line DISCOVERING ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AA PilgrimagePilgrimage toto SacredSacred SitesSites ofof AncientAncient EuropeEurope A Pilgrim’s Journey Towards Spiritual Awakening Brad Laughlin Discovering Archangel Michael A Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites of Ancient Europe Brad Laughlin CoreLight Publishing Santa Fe, New Mexico October 2007 Copyright ©2006, 2011, 2012 by Brad Laughlin. Some rights reserved. [license_3.0] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. More information: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 For information: CoreLight 223 North Guadalupe Street, #275 Santa Fe, NM 87501-1850 (505) 424-8844 Website: www.corelight.org ◊ email: [email protected] ISBN: 1-931679-08-8 Cover design: Leslie Temple-Thurston, Leslie Anne Staller Book design & typography: Leslie Temple-Thurston, Leslie Anne Staller Editor: Holli Duggan Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following copyrighted works: Broadhurst, Paul, and Hamish Miller, et al, The Dance of the Dragon. Cornwall, UK: Mythos, 2003. The Dance of the Dragon is only available at www.mythospress.co.uk. Gray, Martin, Places of Peace and Power: Teachings From a Pilgrim’s Journey. Sedona: Martin Gray, 2004. Gray, Martin, www.sacredsites.com. Table of Contents Dedication . i Acknowledgements . ii. Foreword . iii Introduction . .vii 1 . Meeting Archangel Michael . 1 2 . Leslie’s Archangel Michael Miracle . 6 3 . Leslie’s Vision of the Omphalos . 11 4 . The Archangel Michael/Apollo Ley Line . 16 5 . Archangel Michael Speaks . 19 6 . Dragons, Serpents and the Meaning of Evil . 24 7 . The Pilgrimage . 34 8 . First Mystical Experiences in Greece . 37 9 . The Dance of the Dragon . 43 10 . Knossos, Crete . 49 11 . Southeastern Crete . 53 12 . Squares . 59 13 . Collective Shifts from Crete . 63 14 . Planetary Acupuncture . 66 15 . Delos, Birthplace of Apollo the Sun God . 70 16 . White Lions . 75 17 . Further Meditations on Delos . 78 18 . Naxos and the Demeter Temple . 85 19 . Athens, the Acropolis and the Parthenon . 91 20 . Approaching Delphi . 97 21 . The Delphi Experience . 101 22 . Osios Loukas . 107 23 . Last Moments at Delphi . 113 24 . Dodona . 118 25 . Arrival on Corfu (Kerkyra) . 126 26 . Adventures on Corfu . 131 27 . Corfu and the Gorgon . 134 28 . Corfu and the Temple of Artemis . 139 29 . More Adventures on Corfu . 145 30 . Preparing for the Retreat at Chausey, France . 148 31 . Discovering Archangel Michael at Chausey . 152 32 . The Cromlech at Chausey . 156 33 . An Outing to the Minquiers Islands . 160 34 . Le Mont Saint Michel . 163 35 . Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Little Flower . 169 36 . Kellyann and Saint Thérèse . 175 37 . Manifesting a Crop Circle . 181 38 . Developing a Relationship with Archangel Michael . 187 Bibliography . 190 Dedication To Leslie, my beloved partner, teacher and muse, and to my guardian angel, Archangel Michael. My love and gratitude for you is beyond measure. Page i Acknowledgements First and foremost, I am eternally grateful to my beloved partner, teacher and muse, Leslie Temple-Thurston. Without your teachings, encouragement, advice, patience, love and companionship, I could never have written this book. Our blessed eighteen years together have flown by in an instant and have lasted an eternity. I cannot imagine what my life might have looked like without you in it, as you have opened doorways for me I never knew existed. To you I entrust my soul and offer flowers of devo- tion on the altar of my heart. I have loved holding hands through this journey of life together and on our pilgrimages around the globe. May there be many more to come. You have my undying gratitude and eternal love. I am also grateful to Leslie for her exquisite artistry in designing the cover and page layout of the book and for her creative advice and assistance with telling this story, particularly with Chapters Five and Six. I wish to thank my dear friend and traveling companion, Denise Lurton-Moullé, who was responsible for getting this whole adventure started. Thank you for your invitation, generosity, insight, encouragement, support and friendship and for having faith in me. I feel very blessed that you are in my life and am excited about having many more adventures together. To the authors of The Dance of the Dragon, Paul Broadhurst, Hamish Miller, Vivienne Shanley and Ba Russell, Leslie and I owe an enormous debt of thanks for their pioneering and extraordinary work and for the use of their maps and some other images in this book. Without them, our pilgrimage and this book would not have been possible. To Martin Gray I am immensely grateful for sharing the powerful Planetary Acupuncture technique and his extraordinary website www.sacredsites.com. I offer my heartfelt gratitude to Holli Duggan for her expert editing skills and to Leslie Anne Staller for her graphics support. Both went above and beyond the call of duty to help prepare this draft, including many late nights. Thanks also to: Patti Blair for her lovely sketches, Teri Hall who helped put the book together, literally, and Victoria More who worked tirelessly in the office, taking on a heavier load, so that I could be free to complete the book. Your dedication to the Light is a shining example. Thank you all for your love and support. Finally I am immensely grateful to all the guides and teachers in the invisible realms, known and unknown, especially Archangel Michael, and to our many friends and volunteers, named and unnamed, who do so much and who make this work possible. Page ii Page i Foreword Who is the Archangel Michael? Traditionally his name means ‘the Face of God’ and he is the ultimate psychopomp, or Guide of Souls. As he guides each individual soul on their path he represents a protective spiritual presence that continuously challenges and leads them ever onwards towards a deeper understanding of who they are and where their destiny lies. Yet according to recent modern visionaries such as Rudolf Steiner and the English mystic Wellesley Tudor Pole his role extends far beyond this. Both believed that St Michael was to be the presiding spiritual force behind a coming new age, and has long been instrumental in the evolutionary progress of the Earth itself. They thought that the Archangel is of much greater antiquity than the relatively recent Christian era, and is also profoundly linked with the ancient idea of pilgrimage. In ‘Michael, Prince of Heaven’, written during the 1950s, Tudor Pole commented ‘Behind the faith in St Michael there is an age long experience of the Christian Church and even the human race…Our Faith looks to revelation from above. In our time we are to look for this revelation on the sacred sites belonging to our Faith. It is the privilege of pilgrims to re-sanctify these sites as holy places…’ The ‘Faith’ that Tudor Pole refers to is not necessarily that of any particular belief system, but an order of consciousness where certain matters are instinctively known and understood, a gnosis. This mode of being transcends the mundane world, with its various versions of history and patterns of thinking, to connect directly with a source of information that exists on another level altogether. The ‘gateways’ to this realm are the sacred sites, those places that have been revered since the very dawn of time. Pilgrimage is as much an inner journey as one that takes place in the outside world, as anyone who has undertaken a true pilgrimage will testify. Many of the places we are drawn to have a power, a tangible energy, even a form of intelligence, that can deeply affect human beings. This was always understood in former times, and so the churches, cathedrals and temples we see today are just the latest in a long line of places of particular sanctity, evolving from prehistory and changing their nature along with the currents and fashions of the ages. When, in the early 1980s, we began a 15-year quest to explore two remarkable alignments of sacred sites dedicated to St Michael (and his female counterpart St Mary) we had no real idea what it would lead to. We began by travelling along the ‘British St Michael Line’, starting at St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall at the Page iii most westerly point of southern Britain, an atmospheric rocky island crowned by a castle where a glowing vision of St Michael was said to have appeared in the early years of Christianity. Before that it had been known as Dinsul (the Citadel of the Sun) and dedicated to Druid sun gods. We found ourselves following this line of ancient holy places to Glastonbury, the legendary center of both Christian and pre-Christian religion in these islands, with its ruined tower of St Michael on the summit of the famous Tor. Along the way we came across many other places once held sacred, some marked on maps and others seemingly long forgotten. Half-way along this line we came upon Avebury, the greatest Neolithic temple complex in Britain, over 5000 years old. Its great entrance stones, as heavy as a London bus, were perfectly aligned with the axis of Glastonbury Tor and numerous other sites on the 360-mile alignment. This axis was directed towards the north- eastern horizon where the sun rose at Beltane, which marked the beginning of summer and the return of the sun gods in the ancient British calendar. It was clearly no accident that all these places lined up, for many, like Glastonbury Tor and Avebury, had apparently been designed to take this relationship between the Sun and Earth into account. After three years we found ourselves at the other end of the line on the east coast, having discovered dozens of ancient sites, stone circles, megaliths, holy wells and exquisite country churches, often dedicated to St Michael (or his brother-in- arms St George) and St Mary.
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