Are You New to Fountain International

prolonged hibernation period, which Editorial mainly started with the death of Colin Bloy, and other leading lights of Welcome to the June 2013 issue of the Fountain International . As the “first Fountain International Magazine. generation” began to fall away, the impetus began to fail, and was further hampered by the loss of the members and groups list.

I have always been a strong believer in the “concept.” Once bitten many of the “old members,” still have a great fond- ness for Fountain International, and still work with the concept.

In some ways Colin Bloy, and other people within Fountain International were greatly ahead of their time. As I look back on some of their previous writings, they are still relevant to Since the start of the year I have been today, if not still ahead of their time. having thoughts about Fountain Inter- national and the “concept”. With the From my perspective, I felt drawn to st new incoming energies from the 21 regenerate the Fountain International December 2012, it seems that it’s time Magazine. It’s something that I enjoy to re-start Fountain International. and feel good at. Each edition brings Towards the beginning of the year, I in more readers, stirring up interest in had an email from Joanne Fildew, re Fountain International. So now my her Facebook group. “It’s all within.” attention is being drawn to the next She was talking about people’s need to step. The re-booting of the Fountain gather together, and do something International Network. Where the about the “current situation.” magazine can be used as a communication point between people and groups, The first thing that came into my and a new active list of members can mind, was the “Fountain International be started. In a way, it is the coming of concept”. It is an ideal tool of bringing the “Second Generation,” and I feel people together in a common aim. The excited just by writing this. tool can be used by anyone, no matter who you are, what your situation is, or I am no Colin Bloy or Hamish Miller which grouping you belong to. The etc, but all the same I have my own only thing that is required by the skills. “concept”, is a desire to do the “work.” Fountain International can blend with I have come from being “computer anything, we are non-competitive and phobic,” to running the website, and have respect for others. The only thing now uploading the magazine website. that is important to us, is that the The next step has been put into my “concept,” or a form of the “concept is mind. The making of previous put into practice. Fountain International information available on the website, and of the I will be honest and say that Fountain writers in the archive. With the aim International has gone through a that it can be of help, and that the

1 knowledge may be built on, and extra information, or a call to action to researched further. It’s always seemed go out, which is made easier if I have wrong to me, that knowledge should contact details. Don’t sit on the side die with the person, when it can be of lines, be a part of it! I am just a click help and inspiration to others. away on the Editor’s button.

So, with this in mind, during my “rest period,” between magazines, I have made a start. My first offering which I have just completed is, one from the booklet range, “Introduction to Fountain International.” It can now be found uploaded onto the Books section of the website. This first booklet will Let’s re-boot, re-invigorate and get be a free download, but for all others back to work, and start the Pure Love there will be a charge. I am giving my energies flowing. services free of charge, but all monies will go into the Fountain International Many thanks to all our contributors, account, for future projects. without them there would be no

In due course, I hope to get all archive magazine. work, out onto the website, including Colin Bloy’s books. (Recently Chris Street got in touch to let me know, that Colin’s 1st book was being sold on Amazon for £100. Not sure whether they got that price or not, but be assured my price will be a lot lower than that, and in a lot better condition.)

As I said earlier, I do not have any lists of members, or of people/groups wanting to be contacts for Fountain International. (Let me know if you will to be a contact.) I’d be very grateful to hear from old and new members alike. As from time to time there may be

Contents

Front Cover – Jan Harper Whale

Editorial – Suzanne Thomas

You are Sacred Purpose – Jeff Brown.

Who Can You Trust? –Suzanne Thomas. Deadline for the next issue

Working with the Elementals in a 21st August 2013. London Square – Vicky Sweetlove. Next issue out 2nd October 2013. EM Pollution & Electromagnetic Stress (2nd Anniversary issue.) Advice Sheet – Andrew Tresidder. This Magazine is special. Be a The Glastonbury Zodiac Essences – An part of it. All original Greenheart, Sophie Knock & Casey submissions of the submitter Jon. welcome. Articles approx 1,500 From the Archive - The Templars and words with illustrations. Any Earth Energy Fields – Colin Bloy. enquiries can be sent to the Editor via the website. Light Feet – Debbie Adamson. All contributions to the magazine The Spirit of Place – James A Swan. are copyright to the authors, artists and photographers. The Light Grid – Anne & Dave Saltrese. The views given in the magazine are not necessarily those of Perpetual Choirs Tour – Giles Bryant. Fountain International. My Journey - Elen Sentier

Are You New to Fountain? - Suzanne Singer

Cerne Abbas Giant, Landscape, Gods and the Stargate – Peter Knight.

Book Review

Sophia’s Egg Although we don’t charge for the magazine, we are very grateful to Poetry Corner receive donations for running costs etc. Via the website; Letters to the Editor www.fountaininternationalmaga Finally zine.com

You are Sacred Purpose no game, this is completely real ,this sacred purpose that courses through By Jeff Brown your soul veins crying out to be heard from below the surface of our avoidance. I cannot say this with enough assertiveness… To the extent that you identify and honour your true path in this lifetime, you will know genuine satisfaction, real peace in your skin… You will be infused with vitality and a clarified focus, new pathways of You are Sacred Purpose. possibility appear where before there were obstacles. You will know a peace You are not your shame, your fears, that will buffer you against the your addictions, your games, your madness of the world, a clarity of guilt, the internalized remnants of direction that will carry you from one negative messaging… You are not your satisfaction to another… Life will still resistance to your true path… You are have its challenges, but you will not your self-doubt… You are not your interface with them differently, coated self-distraction patterns. You are not in an authenticity of purpose that sees your escape hatches…you are not your through the veils to what really pessimism about a life of meaning and matters. To the extent, that you avoid purpose. You are not here merely to the quest for purpose, you will live survive and endure. frustrated, a half-life… your avoidance manifest in all manner of illness, You are Sacred Purpose. perpetual dissatisfaction, emotional No matter what others have problems, depression, addictive mistakenly told you about who you are, patterns, ALL REFLECTIONS OF no matter what mistakes you have YOUR own alienation from the made in the past, you are here with a purposeful root of your being… You sacred purpose living at the core of see, there really is no escape from your being. If that weren’t true you reality, all there is, is postponement. never would have made it down the You should be more afraid of avoiding birth canal. You never would have your path than walking it. overcome what you have already You are Sacred Purpose. overcome in your life. atter what anyone You are Sacred Purpose. AND, it doesn’t m tells you about who you are. There is Whatever your ways of distracting, so much of that. This is your journey. postponing, delaying, armouring, Even those with best of intentions, avoiding, altering, feigning, cannot know the path you are here to artificializing, externalizing, walk. The REAL journey is not one of superficializing your life… I encourage adapting ourselves to someone else’s you to STOP IT NOW. This really is vision, but instead, shaping who we are

4 with our own two hands. The unique own purpose in this lifetime. What are clay we work with lives deep inside our you here to learn? What are you here soul bones, awaiting our own detection to overcome? What are you here to and expression. You are the sculptor express? What does your authentic of your own reality, don’t hand your face look like? Who are you, above and tools to anyone else. Only you can beyond all the noise and haste… This know the path you are here to walk. is not about money, or bullshit ideas of It’s a personal decision, and it doesn’t abundance, or gratifying your ego, this have to be grandiose. Your purpose is about the real thing, the real deal, can be as simple as learning how to the vulnerable and courageous truth listen better, how to enjoy the moment about who you really are and why you without getting in your own way… are here. I ENCOURAGE you to take wherever the growing is, wherever you the question of sacred purpose find genuine peace with path, wherever seriously… to not postpone it for you feel unmasked and genuinely another hour, or week, or till you real… in the survivalist world that we retire, until the next lifetime, till you are coming from, we defined ourselves finish school, or end your relationship, by what GOT US through the day, but take it seriously now… To work whatever masks got food on the table, like a dog to find out what lives inside whatever way of being endured this of you, what you are here to express, challenging life… but we are at the what you are here to manifest and beginning of a new way, a way of being express, what you are here to give, to that is sourced in who we REALLY share, to learn, to create, to dance, to ARE, not our egoic face, not our art, to walk… You don’t know how survivalist face, not the false face of long you have, it maybe 60 years, it our hidden power, but the real face, may be 60 seconds, you may not make the real path, the no bullshit, no hype it to retirement, you may not make it no pretence expression of WHO YOU to tomorrow morning, at least if you REALLY ARE and a life that fully and are questing for your purpose, living deeply expresses the magnificence that your truth, you will not suffer when it’s lives within you… Your sacred purpose time to leave the body in this lifetime, may be covered in dust, it may be you will be living in your authenticity, HIDDEN FROM VIEW, but its still in this is no small achievement in this there, sparkling with infinite distracted world, where the possibility… unconscious media and manipulative marketers try to turn us generic and You are Sacred Purpose. frightened so we will be locked into This is a call to action. A call to their script, forget that. You already authenticity. A call to dig yourself out have a script, and it lives deep inside from below the bushel of shame and you… that script is your purpose, what self-doubt that has plagued humanity. you are here to express, to learn, to A call to get off the dime and do the embody, to humanifest… So you real work to call yourself on your decide which script to read – the distraction pattern and excavate your fictional novel written by those who do

5 not SEE YOU, or the HOLY BOOK Who Can You Trust? written by your glorious spirit. When you walk through the gateway of Suzanne Thomas purpose, you walk into yourself. You are sacred purpose, you are sacred As the old song goes, “Who can you call, Ghost-Busters purpose, you are sacred purpose. .” In true life, if only it could be that simple. You have Don’t stop until you find it. wolves dressed as little Red Riding “Soul- scripture alert! If you are Hoods, and people that look like working towards a clearer idea of the wolves that are the sweetest people, next steps on your path, consider once you get to know them. downloading my Pay-what-you-can, “Finding your Sacred Purpose” course at Soulshaping University. Six talks and a 35 page optional exercise document to help you clarify what your own unique sacred purpose looks like. My idea of sacred purpose includes callings, but also includes key relationships we are here to learn from and some of the main emotional issues that continue to plague us. To the Yet others show their true value on the extent that we can work them through, surface. So how can you tell, especially we are honouring our purpose in this when you are talking about spiritual lifetime. Any step we take in the teachers, and so-called spiritual direction of wholeness, is purpose- organisations? Anyone who knows me driven and supports our path. The knows that I have never been a rose- course is a very affordable way to tinter, and sorry, yes I am taking a ignite the inquiry into purpose.” swipe at the rose-tinters. http://soulshaping.com/?page_id= 1195

Jeff has also written Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation. Available from www.amazon.com

But it is for their benefit, before they get hurt, in one way or another. So growing up time could be needed, if you refuse to look into duality.

At the end of the day spiritual teachers destiny, and not to rely on others to tell and organisations are like all other us what to think and do. You are human beings. Some are nice others spiritually free if you wish to be. aren’t, especially when business comes into play. Like us all they can be susceptible to all the human frailties.

I remember when I first started out “actively,” on the path many years ago Barney Camfield who was teaching me to heal amongst others things gave me some very valuable advice.

So what’s rattled my cage? Well, it was brought to my attention, by two Fountain International members this week. That a “fairly” well-known spiritual teacher had totally plagiarized “our” Cathar prophecy, which had come about through Colin Bloy’s work and research into the Cathar’s, and their “fall” at Montsegur. Without even asking.

Colin Bloy giving a Healing On his new website, he had changed Demonstration the “Church of Love” to a different title, and wiped out any reference to “Don’t believe a word I say to you.” I Colin Bloy or Fountain International, looked at him quizzically. But what he and made it his own. really meant was not to follow blindly like a sheep. Test it out. When you listen or read anything of a spiritual nature. Only take in what is true for you. If you are not sure, put it to one side for a little. If something does not resonate within your heart, leave it alone, it is not for you. One of Barney’s other gifts he taught, was spiritual Now Colin Bloy, bless him, on his fluffy discernment, and ninety nine times cloud in the sky, did not believe in out of hundred, I can spot the spiritual copyright. But I do think that this gold of a true teacher. In these days of gentlemen has no respect for others chaos and change, I am asking you to spirituality, research, and property, develop spiritual discernment. In the and is only interested in his own Aquarian age, we are meant to do our agenda and purposes. own thinking, be masters of our

What this gentleman has taken and died in their thousands labelled “possession” of is a part of the heretics and enemies of the State. “Proclamation in accordance with an old prophecy, which was made in 1986 By 1244 only a few were left, and the last of these, some 215 Cathar Perfecti, in Andorra.” were induced to surrender at At some point I have to feel a little sad Montsegur on the 16th March. They for him. I am told that he has written are led out from the castle to the field many spiritual books, but seems to below, burned in a communal funeral have lost his spiritual connection, pyre. hence the plagiarizing of other people’s work, to boost himself. Obviously he is Legend has it that four of the Perfecti escaped the previous night with a serving some sort of “purpose” if only to the unwary, so good luck to him, no “treasure”- variously described as the doubt karma will sort things out. Holy Grail, documents of great value, books, gold, and which some of us believe could have been old knowledge of ability to transmit the ultimate power of love, using a combination of earth and etheric energies.

These four people, and whatever they carried with them, have been the subject of countless stories and Our Viewpoint from the legends, and Colin Bloy learned during Archive. his research that they had spent some time in a cave somewhere in Andorra. Some years ago Colin Bloy was delving into the history and legend of what With the help of another dowsing happened to the last of the Cathar master, Bill Lewis, the cave was located people who held out in Montsegur by map dowsing, and a significant against the crusade initiated by the “Grail Stone” was found in a cave. The Pope and the King of France in 1209. results of dowsing the hundreds of energy patterns formed when the stone (Just a quick snippet, the Cathars are was placed in the reconstructed church the spiritual side of the coin, to the at Arsinal in 1978, was published as a other side of the coin which is the booklet by Fountain, (later to become Knights Templars who were more known as Fountain International.) secular, ie they invented banking! But “Dowsing Ley Energies and the Search then the King of France virtually wiped of the Grail, has recently been them out as well!) reformatted by Chris Street, and an For 35 years the Albigenses in the advert can be found on our website for Languedoc area of the South of France it. (The “Grail Stone was returned had been systematically hunted down back to the cave at a later date.)

Subsequent work in field patterns and Bloy said that “this was written by my research in the area led Colin Bloy hand, but I would not claim back to Montsegur, and in the field authorship. It was taken down ten were the Perfecti died, and a dowsable minutes. Although this was written to message in a mixture of Latin and fulfil and 14th century prophecy that Greek was discovered. the Cathar Church would be restored in 1986, I feel that it is a statement

Colin’s translation of the text: relevant to all “Fountaineers” and that “In awe of the wrath of God, and in we too are a part of the Church of Love. that awe known by all evolved men. I It’s a bit of a special church and I don’t build thee in the name of love. I want you to get confused over the word nominate Pitirifo Itit Reog spokeman “Church”, because it means of the Cathars. Rome hates trionian “communication, or fellowship,” Piddires, the oriflame bearing god of ecclesia in Greek nothing more. all trionian things, that difficult but Due to the research headed up by Colin faithful god. The powerful God of the Bloy, before and after 1978, Fountain Cathars fears nothing, but was International, (formed in 1981,) is building his church at a bad time. He based on the precepts of the will rebuild the church in 1986 in “Proclamation,” which has always Andorra, (an indecipherable name) made Fountain International a very will give the gospel. As a light bearing unusual gathering of people, especially priest he excels. The far off people of as far as structure or hierarchy goes. Londuri (London,) will approach. I will build the day the God of all Cathars Colin arranged with a few friends and lives again. The awe and the temple of Fountain members to make the those divines will join eternity, and the declaration for the Church of Love in God of all Cathars provided the Andorra on Good Friday, 29th March ideology. 1986, Grail Day, La Massana at 11 am local time. (This is the Cathar Prophecy, saying that the Church of Love was to be In accordance with an old reborn in 1986.) prophesy;

As there is not the space in this issue to The Network of Love is go into any further great depth of Colin proclaimed in 1986. Bloy and friends work and research into this area of discovery, I will be It has no fabric – only understanding. drastically condensing the rest of the It has no membership – save those information here. But it is just as good who know that they belong. as any Dan Brown novel without the It has no rivals – because it is non- murder and mayhem, and in due competitive. course will be published. It has no ambition because it only seeks to serve. The “Proclamation for the Church of It knows no boundaries, for Love”, was a channelled piece. Colin nationalisms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to It recognizes the supremacy of the enrich all groups and religions. great idea which may only be It acknowledges all great teachers of accomplished if the human race all ages who have shown the truth of practices the supremacy of love. love. Those who participate, practice the It has no rewards to offer, either here truth of love in all their daily being. or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving. There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier. It members shall seek only to advance Those who are, know. the cause of understanding within whichever church, group or family they

happen to be. It seeks not to teach but to be, and by They shall do good by stealth, and being, enrich. teach only by example. It recognizes the collectivity of all humanity and that we are all one with They shall heal their neighbour, the One. community and our planet. It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us, because They shall know no fear, and feel no we are that way. shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds. It recognizes the whole planet as a being, of which we are part. It has no secrets, no Arcanum, no initiation save that of the true understanding of the power of love and It recognizes that the time has come that, if we want it to be so, the world for the supreme transmutation, the will change but only if we change ultimate alchemical act, the conscious ourselves first. change of the ego into a voluntary All those who belong, belong. That is return to the whole. the Church of Love. It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice but in the subtle realms of loving. Many churches, groups and sects are impositions by the few on the many, It salutes all those in the past who have preying on weakness. The Church of blazoned the paid but paid the price. It Love is the reverse. It liberates, and admits of no hierarchy or structure, for promotes individual strength. Such no-one is greater than another. vestigial structure as it eventually may It members shall know each other by have, must come from those who know their deeds and being and their eyes they are part of it. and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace. Each one will dedicate his or her life to the silent loving of their neighbor, environment and planet, whilst carrying out their daily task, however exalted or humble.

I have to be thankful to the gentleman Working with the for one thing. It has given me a thought! Although I was in the process Elementals in a of working up to it, as I have made a London Square start in re-publishing from the Fountain International archive. The By Vicky Sweetlove Cathar Proclamation is a little nugget of spiritual gold, in this time of chaos. It could be seen as perhaps a blueprint for how we would like to develop society or perhaps the foundation to build a global spiritual network linking all spiritual groups with common cause in mutual respect, much the same as say the internet for global information, and paypal for global money. My idea is to make the Proclamation more widely known and available, by getting it out into the world. So if you too would like it to be more widely seen, or promote it in your own centres, magazines, websites, blogs and books etc Please get in Elementals at Becky Falls touch with me, on the Editor’s button, it would be good to hear what your I was told about the problems being thoughts and feelings are about the experienced in a London garden prophecy, and where you are intending square near Victoria Station, when I to include it or any other information. attended a meeting with the London I would be grateful if you would do and Thameside Dowsers, and I offered Colin Bloy and Fountain International to come along and see if I could help. the courtesy of giving credit to where As I reached down to pick up my bag the “Proclamation” has come from, ie there was a word there “Good Luck,” when using it any form of media. which was where some confetti had been left over from a wedding party. I If the credit could read as; Channelled knew this was a sign for me to offer my by Colin Bloy. For further information assistance and it was the right thing to please go to - do this work. fountaininternationalmagazine.com I asked my client for a map of the area so that I could tune in to what was happening in the Square. Whilst this was being drawn, I picked up that there had been water sprites (undines) in the Garden Square and they had

11 moved to the lake at St James Park as the garden square I found that the they were not feeling very happy. “Hell” area needed a lot more water to put the “fires of hell out,” which made sense with the army of water sprites coming to assist.

As I entered the square I found a tree with witches broom in the far corner, just opposite the gardeners shed with negative energy coming from it. I always ask my guides for confirmation and this time I saw some Chinese herbs in a packet near the gardeners shed, which I remember being told I felt the square had been split into many years previously that these were “Heaven & Hell,” with negative and poisonous, with this information I positive sides to it. I pointed out which knew this was not a good place. I find end of the square I found was the I am often given signs such as this, as negative and was told it was where the proof of what I am finding is correct. unpleasant neighbours lived.

Before I could do any work on the site I asked if my client could place as many wooden crosses in the ground around the park as was possible. These were made from wooden matchsticks tied together, and placed around the outside edge of the square to prepare the site for my arrival with the I went with my dowsing rods to the Intention of Psychic protection. area I had picked out on the map, this In the meantime I had received a much turned out to be a huge vortex of improved map of the square which I spiralling energy just behind the dowsed remotely and we made an gardeners shed. As I walked the area I appointment for me to come over to felt the water sprites, had done a great see what further work I needed to do. deal of work already by “quenching out A few occasions I tried to make a visit, the fires of hell.” As I walked the spiral I had been prevented from going, but I asked the nature spirits if there was eventually the time was right and I something specific I needed to do. I arrived at the square. was told earth acupuncture. I asked for a stake or something from nature It was only when I checked the map that I could use to carry it out. The dowsing I found the water sprites next minute in the spiral that I was (undines) that had moved to the lake walking there was a large piece of were back in the square and were wood, which was not there when I ready for battle. When I map dowsed started walking. I picked up the wood

12 and continued the harmonising of the EM Pollution and energies in this area and then located the best place to carry out the earth Electromagnetic Stress acupuncture, which was in an area to the side of the gardeners shed. I felt Advice Sheet that this was a pivotal moment. As I commenced with the earth By Andrew Tresidder acupuncture to complete my work at Human health is a delicate balance. It the square – there felt to be a can be adversely affected by interfering tremendous shift in energy and a factors such as chemical pollution, powerful release. smoke, pollens, moulds, the food we eat, what we drink, sleep, fresh air, sunlight and so on.

Electromagnetic pollution is another cause, which stresses the body. Our bodies were developed over millions of years in an environment free from pollution and man-made EM signals (which are hugely stronger than any natural ones).

Symptoms may be none, or include tiredness, poor quality sleep, irritability, heart palpitations, headaches and a feeling of pressure in the head, speech and thinking disturbance, brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, vertigo, tinglings and odd Eccleston Square Park sensations in the limbs, joint pains, rashes and others. A few weeks later my client came back to me and told me that the Square was Electromagnetic problems are caused much lighter and the energy better in by; the square than it had ever been. I was 1. Field effects from cables and told that the water mains etc were appliances (such as lights, hairdryers, being dug up (so more water was washing machines, cookers, bedside coming into the square,) to help the radios etc) water sprites with their quest. 2. Signal and power effects from

microwave transmitting technology, Vicky Sweetlove such as microwave ovens, mobile www.fengshuilife.co.uk phone masts, cordless phone base stations and handsets, mobile phones, Email: [email protected]

13 wireless routers, Wii devices, laptop production, general sympathetic computers, printers, home and office (stress) upregulation of the body and alarm sensors, iPads, Blackberries and others including probably disruption others, baby alarms, Smart Meters for of cell to cell signalling. The overall utilities, and wireless central heating effect will be to age us all more controls, and Bluetooth devices in the quickly… car. The Council of Europe recommends a Precautionary approach, although current UK Health protection Agency Advice is based on heating effects of transmissions only, not the observed signal effects. IARC says that transmitting technologies are a Class 2b possible carcinogen.

Transmitting technology is now widespread compared to ten years ago. Many houses now contain a range of transmitters from the list above. Some only transmit when used (leaky microwave ovens and mobile phones) others for 24 hours a day – such as wifi routers, home alarms, cordless phones, baby and domestic alarms and others. What should you do to help you and (Microwaves were used to make people your family? unwell during the Cold War.) Learn about the issue (and remember Proven biological effects of EM fields that industry pressure may stop much include childhood leukaemia, changes discussion of the issue, or ridicule the in sperm production, pregnancy ‘Canaries in the Coal Mine” who are success, embryo development, the early sufferers). hormonal disruption and others, whilst many diseases such as depression, www.wavegoodbye.info, www.es- motor neuron and Parkinson’s uk.info, www.powerwatch.org.uk diseases, several cancers, behavioural www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk problems, cataracts, ophthalmic effects www.mobilewise.org all have helpful and others have an association with information – if only one, try the first! EMFields. http://electromagneticman.co.uk/inde Mechanisms include changes in x.php/case-studies/electrosensitivity- calcium efflux, failure of repair of DNA sufferers. breaks, blood brain barrier permeability, heat shock protein Key is to minimize your exposure in the home, especially during sleep time.

Switch off wifi routers and cordless phone base stations and any other devices you can (wherever they are in the house – remember the signal is designed to go throughout the house), put iPads and others onto airplane mode. Get a wired router and Devolo system for the computer to use through the house. Remember that your wireless router and other convenience devices are Class 2B possible carcinogens (cause cancer) Consider changing alarm sensors to passive only (rather than active/passive which use microwaves), Sophie Knock and ask yourself if you need wireless central heating controls. Avoid getting a wireless Smart Meter –consider watching the vimeo on Beings of Resonance (James Russell) on http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/catego ry/health-effects/ and do look at this one http://www.wifiinschools.com/ www.electricsense.com

And learn about everything you can to protect your health! Good Luck and Go Well! Casey Jon The Glastonbury Zodiac To explain these beautiful Essences we Essences must first tell the story of the Glastonbury Zodiac, which lies at the By An Greenheart, Sophie Knock heart of an ancient mystery. and Casey Jon In 1927 Katherine Maltwood discovered a giant landscape of astrological figures. The giant figures were woven into the landscape using ancient pathways, hills, and rivers. They lay in a circle ten miles across and thirty miles in circumference, and could only be seen in their entirety from above. Bahli Mans Morris

All along, it seems, our ancient and rich heritage of the Arthurian legends lay upon the earth as a rich tapestry waiting to be discovered.

Indeed, following extensive research, Mrs Maltwood concluded that The Round Table of the Zodiac is about 5,000 years old and that it was

probably constructed sometime Glastonbury Tor around 2,700 BCE, although earlier dates of 7,000 BCE, relating to Egypt’s She had been pouring over the Dendarah Zodiac, have also been Glastonbury Landscape while trying to suggested. piece together the Knights of the Round Table movements as recorded The Glastonbury Zodiac is also known in the “High History of the Holy Grail,” as “The Temple of the Stars,” because a popular romance allegory, tradit- it corresponds with the order and ionally associated with Glastonbury as configuration of the constellations still Avalon. It was translated from recognised by today’s astronomers. Medieval French by Dr Sebastian There are however two anomalies; for Evans from the 12th century source instance two signs are missing, but known as the Perlesvaus. fundamentally it was considered fair to say that the Zodiac exists and is of Reading “The High History,” and considerable significance. relating it to these Zodiac figures on the Ordinance survey map, Mrs To vindicate her findings, Mrs Maltwood became convinced that the Maltwood commissioned aerial adventures described in the book could photographs by British Aerofilms. be located in the area around These photographs suggested that she Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon. was accurate in her work, and had indeed made a significant and exciting Arthurian Legend find which could only be seen in it’s As is now well documented, Katherine entirety from above. Maltwood’s research opened up a Katherine Maltwood didn’t finish fascinating angle on Glastonbury. She piecing everything together, but suggested that the Arthurian romance nevertheless made a great start and enshrined in “The High History,” can her work was very through. In be read in relation to this zodiac and addition to the huge Zodiac figures that King Arthur and his knights themselves, she discovered substantial personify the twelve constellation evidence in the form of local folksong, figures. For example, Sir Lancelot custom and place names, together with personifies Leo, and King Arthur, carvings in the churches, abbeys and Sagittarius. cathedrals, which strongly supported her research.

Making the Essences

The Glastonbury Zodiac essences have been an alchemical journey, both inwardly and outwardly, taking us through each zodiac initiation and deepening our understanding of the astrological signs. Preserving Mother Essence with Alcohol

Many times our fingers and toes have been frozen, but having made the essences our hearts have felt warmed by the love that each sign has offered.

These beautiful essences can be used in Making the Mother Essence a myriad of different ways, either to strengthen your own inner astrological We have followed the cyclical year, landscape, or to help you to meeting each zodiac sign in its own understand the knowledge and season within the landscape of the initiation that each independent, “Temple of the Stars”, the abundance age-old sign has to offer. of Virgo as the abundant harvest was gathered, and the wonderful warmth They offer you a glimpse of the and sunshine of regal Leo. celestial heavens as you walk upon the earth, and allow you to stay in touch with your own inner heart beat and healing.

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From the Archive After the Brighton Experiment a new energy field occurred within the town, The Templars and Earth based on a chequerboard. As the Energy Fields energy levels of the town had been raised the gangs found Brighton too By Colin Bloy boring, because, when your consciousness is not adjusted to the All the evidence would seem to place you are in, you get bored. The indicate that the Templars surfaced as chequerboard which is the first energy part of the long underground tradition body of the world was also the flag of which concerned itself not only with the Templars. Within the history, both the bloodline but with the setting of mankind free, by liberation from karma. Part of these changes can be assisted by mankind and part comes from some form of assistance from the outside. The sort of assistance that comes from humanity is the sort that comes from Fountain work, because we’ve been able to see that in the past

15 years the different energy fields of the Earth that were all dead are slowly known and esoteric of the Templars being restored. One of the interesting one can observe total understanding of things about this restoration is that if the subtle energies and the attempt to there are 16 world energy bodies we’re create a shift. up to No 6 in the healing process. The 16 fields of Gaia when completed We’ve restored six of the energy we may assume will mean the healing bodies. The way that this is done, it of Gaia complete. Every time we do would seem, is by creating the right Fountain type work, (either the people sort of creative consciousness. We see who are nominally Fountain or people that Earth energy fields. As they get meditating quietly without ever giving rebuilt, form into Templar Crosses, themselves a name) we help to heal which is nothing to do with the Passion Gaia. When the healing through this Cross. method has been completed, then I think we will go back to what was found in the Australian desert, the one place that man has never been, which is a six pointed star, repeated and

18 repeated and repeated, as the energy The activation of the collective field there. Michael Poynder in his consciousness is the way in which book, “Pi in the Sky”, refers to that mankind is saved from its folly. Homo particular assertion by Clive Beadon in Sapiens becomes Homo Amans. If we some detail for those who are don’t learn to love in the true sense, I interested and also to how that symbol don’t think the Cosmic Insurance or energy formula appears wherever Company will give us a re-quote. The you look for truth. So that may be the activation of the chakras is part of the way that the 16th field of Gaia will look. process. I’m not saying that there aren’t sites like this in other parts of Part of the story that we have been the world. There may well be, but at trying to tell is the existence of zodiacs least we know enough about his one. in a specific axis in Europe probably Peter Dawkins proposed some years from Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the ago that through pilgrimage and South of France all the way up to Iona meditation these sites should be in Scotland. Peter Dawkins, the director of the Francis Bacon Research Trust, is the author of this concept. (see The Liberation of Karma: Project Zodiac by Colin Bloy in the Fountain International Magazine October 2012.) The reason why the line of David was interested in coming here after the Crucifixion and creating a Jewish state is, in my view, because of that axis. activated I have a theory, which when Not only are the key points of the axis, you think about it starts to make your chakras and zodiacs, but they are also flesh tingle, that what was found at all points of departure for pilgrimage Montesion in Mallorca is the button of Santiago de Compostela, along that for the base chakra. line across the north of Spain that At Randa in Mallorca, Raimon Lull the marks the principle landing sites of the 13th century mystic, or we could say, survivors of Atlantis. If we extend that new scientist, spent time on some work line and also the Michael line of that has recently come to our England, the point where they meet we attention. He was Templar trained might call the heart of Atlantis. David and knew all about the geometry which Percy, when asked if our origins were is described in “Ars Magna”. In the in Atlantis, said, “Yes, but the real museum at Randa, not only is there a Atlantis which is not on this planet,” Star of David in a small rose window, which is an interesting thought. I but there is also an exhibition of discs think we’re beginning to identify the with 9, 15 and 17 letters on them with source of the tradition and some of the truths behind the veil. The veil will attributions to each letter and they’re set out overlapping each other so that come down one day. you can turn them. They have attributions of all the factors that you

19 can think of. It has been suggested earth spirit who had taken the time that what Lull produced up here was and trouble to walk with me, asked the first computer. Siemans have run ‘What are you fighting so hard?’ It the programme in Berlin and it works, made me realise that my shoulders put into modern computer language. were hunched up to my ears, my back Lull’s stated objective with this was the rigid, my knees stiff, and my face reprogramming of the collective screwed into a grimace. My feet consciousness of the world. It does pounded at the earth as if she were my make sense because that’s what the worst enemy and I was only half Templars were on about – a new world paying attention to the wonderful ethos and brotherhood between the friend who was with me. My friend religions and the races – which was suggested that instead of fighting, I why Jaime the Conquistador was allow my feet to caress the earth rather tolerant of all religions in Mallorca. than punish her, allow her to support It’s Elohimic knowledge which came my legs and rest my body upon her down through families with mighty strength. He commented that I knowledge. It was a Templar dream to spent so much time cutting myself get mankind forward in its evolution from her that it was no wonder I could into true brotherhood. Winston not feel her presence as I walked and Churchill said after the war, “It is real that walking was an exhausting brotherhood or real disaster.” That’s experience for me. So as I listened to got to be true. him and allowed my feet to soften and embrace the earth, something totally Fountain Magazine August 1995 wondrous happened. With each step my body began to relax and a gorgeous soft warmth spread through my root and filled my hips and abdomen. The rigid legs loosened and my feet became soft pleasurable kisses upon the earth. This in turn generated a feeling of such love and strength that without thought my shoulders fell downwards and my back expanded and softened. Everything from my everyday world fell away and all that was left was the soft touch of the earth below my feet, the smell of the damp soil, the soft light filtering through the leaves of the Light Feet trees around me and the sound of my even relaxed breathing. My body By Debbie Adamson became filled with an intense physical pleasure that made my normal feeling One day as I was walking in my of being a physical entity pale into favourite park, a wonderful resident seeming misery. My inner senses

20 opened softly and I could see and hear targets for these feelings, like the my earth friend as clearly as my inconsiderate person who cut straight husband asking me to get some milk across us at the traffic lights, the on the way back home from my walk, thoughtless person who banged into only fifteen minutes earlier. I walked our sore hip at the supermarket check- and walked and yet by the time I out, the printer that just mangled the returned to my car I felt nothing but document we worked on for the last relaxed, refreshed and profoundly two hours. grateful to my friend. This was an amazing encounter in what was just an My afternoon walk seemed to show me afternoon stretch of the legs in an many things. Firstly, simply the urban park, but has since then become willingness to let go of one’s baggage a frequent experience. for even a few moments is worth more than any bottle of tranquillizers or a We have a choice year on the counsellor’s couch. It releases us from the idea that we are It was one of those small but profound powerless in some way or have no revelations that rippled out from that control over certain situations. The day in so many ways. I think my ultimate power we possess is the fact starting point of tension is one that we that we can choose how to respond to can all relate to. We so often get each moment of our lives. We can caught up in thoughts and worries that choose to let go and rest in the power can strangle the natural state of our of our natural state. physical bodies, which otherwise can be one of deep pleasure. We forget to rest upon the very source of energy which gives us life and in doing so can separate ourselves from the earth. Then we stomp through our day clinging to our separation forgetting that we do have the choice to let it go, and rest within our natural state. If we are able to do this, we can return afterwards to our worries and issues, refreshed with a different perspective and better able to deal with all that we encounter. As we are stomping we also become deaf to the guidance and energy of the plants and trees around us. We move out of our place in the great Web of Life and move into a state where pounding the earth with our feet Secondly, the overwhelming sense that is a way of venting our fear, anger and resulted from that first walk and many frustration and at the same time others since is Love. By allowing my keeping her separate from us. We find feet to kiss the earth with lightness and

21 love, the energy was amplified and then rest within it and become returned to me a hundred times over. conduits for it to flow outwards to I opened my natural channel to the everyone and everything around us. earth and I felt her presence wash Then the thoughtless person who through me and hold me. This isn’t an banged into our sore hip in the experience that is solely restricted to supermarket becomes the person they walking, as it is one that is repeated always were, the stressed mum living again and again whenever I work with on four hours a sleep night with a trees and plants. I used to feel fractious baby to feed before he reluctant to say I had fallen in love screams the place down. We then have with a tree or that one of my favourite the space within us to smile and offer a companions is Sheep’s Sorrel because little of the wholeness that has been its spirit makes me laugh and feel shared with us by the brothers and joyous. That was until I read about sisters of the pant kingdom and by Native American plant shamans and Mother Earth. the way they love their plant spirit helpers and treat the body of the plants Being normal with which they work with great reverence and grace (1). Their view is that all things have a spirit, and trees and plants are part of the family to which we all belong. They are beings that have a different form from us but beings who are deserving our love and complete respect. It would seem naive to many in our society to express this way of life, yet my experience is that when we allow our hearts to open and fall in love with the plant spirits and their physical forms with which we work, we start in motion a chain reaction. Our love is reflected back Walking the earth with light feet also and amplified by the knowledge and does something essential for our grace of plants and trees and we then energy systems. We fall into our remember more of who we really are. hearts and at the same time it grounds The essences we make then become our energy and opens our root. This infused with that energy and in turn allows us to accept the energy of life this creates a more whole and effective that we have been stifling and re- remedy. We learn how to honour orientates our centre into our true self. everything around us, not from an Buddhists call it a walking meditation; ideal or distant ritual but by the direct my park friend calls it being normal. experience of the loving flow of energy He says we have forgotten how to be that moves through the Universe and normal. So it can be done, even when everything within it. Effortlessly we we are not walking. We can allow our

22 bodies to soften and caress the earth The Spirit of Place wherever we are and then feel her caress us back. For example, as we are James A. Swan doing the washing up, our feet can softly reach down into her strength and drink her life force. As we do the shopping, we can rest on her vast solidity, and negotiate the chaos of so many people in close proximity, who are disconnected and out of balance. As we deal with the pressures of a modern society which removes us so far from our natural state, we can allow our being to rest in her completeness. When we offer love to the earth it is not only returned to us a hundred times over, but we are reminded of our true state of normality, so that we are more aware should we fall from it. “Modern man will never find peace until he comes into harmony with the It isn’t a difficult thing to do; we just place where he lives.” Carl Jung. have to remember it to do and perhaps to be unafraid to let our feet fall in There is an ancient saying among sacred cultures around the world that love. This doesn’t make everything in our life instantly wonderful or easy but for a thing to be right, it must be it gives us the strength and wholeness correct for the time, the people and the to face anything we encounter in a place. The ancient Greeks sited a shrine at Delphi to honour the earth more whole and ‘normal’ way. goddess Gaia, and their choice of References location was not by chance. They determined the best use of the site by

(1) “Sacred Plant Medicine, the surveying the subtle properties of the Wisdom of Native American nature in that place and concluded that Herbalism,” by Stephen Harrod according to the genus loci, or “spirit” Buhner published by Bear & of that place, this was the most Company. ISBN 159143058-5 appropriate location to site a special (First published in Essence Magazine.) shrine to enhance our kinship with the earth.

Places have their own unique feel, power and personality. All around the world people seem drawn to certain special places which seem to catalyse extraordinary human synergy – Lourdes, Palenque, Denali, Tai Shan,

Mt Kalias, Mt Fuji, the Pyramids at promise of creating more ecologically Giza, the Taj Mahal, Mesa Verde and sustainable communities and buildings Stonehenge to name but a few. that nourish us.

In many cultures there was a precursor to modern architecture and design called geomancy which sought to discern the spirit of each place and then guide its use to achieve the greatest benefits. We can’t go back to the past, but perhaps we can bring the wisdom of the past into the present and create communities which are in greater harmony with nature. Chalice Well, Glastonbury, UK From 1988 -1993, my wife Roberta and I sought to advance our understanding The places of power of the world draw of the value of place in modern life by us to them like magnets and when we composing five annual symposiums, are there they seem to almost play us The Spirit of Place Symposiums. Four like musical notes. The record of were held in the United States and one human history shows us that visits to was held in Japan. They included such special places are catalysts of nearly 300 speakers from different religion, scientific discoveries, healing disciplines, including architects, and artistic creations. Yet despite the aerospace scientists, engineers, connection between place and biologists, politicians and inspiration of the human potential, we psychologists, as well as members of know very little about the act of 20 different American Indian Tribes, making pilgrimages to special places. Polynesians, Innuits, Africans, Asians The lesson of such places of numinous and several prominent spiritual power also is that wherever you are, leaders. From this diverse group of the place has an influence on your presenters we have extracted some mind, body and soul. areas of common agreement about the Among native cultures, where contact value and significance of place. with nature is more intimate, the 1) For indigenous cultures all skilled observer learns that nature can around the world, the belief in be a great teacher and healer. The the existence of special places of behaviour of animals, the annual power and spirit seems cycles of the plants, the subtle vortices universal. This concept is less of wind and water and the delicate understood by many modern crystalline forms in stone tell us things cultures, which can result in about ourselves. A place itself seems conflict with traditional cultures to have a voice from these things and about preservation and more. These insights in turn can be management of certain places. translated into designs which hold the

2) The experience of place is multi- important source of mental and faceted and influenced by physical stress. culture, personal uniqueness

and choice of awareness. There 6) In many cultures around the may be many more sensory world there are arts and processes to perceive the sciences of environmental environment than we today see planning which go back for as normal or possible. Ancient centuries. These ancient traditions believed this and geomantic arts appears to have cultivated these faculties, great importance for modern believing that the development environmental planning. of the designer was the 7) Modern science is beginning to prerequisite to responsible measure subtle properties of deign. place, such as electromagnetic 3) Learning to see, sense and know fields, air ions and air multiple dimensions of a place chemistry, both on-site and with seems helpful in discerning the remote satellite technology. In unique personality of a place, time sensitive instrumentation which may be best expressed in may enable modern science to mythic, artistic or symbolic work with ancient geomancies qualities. Frequently these to help us better understand the places and the legends, stories, uniqueness of every place and songs and dances which are communicate it in a language inspired by them represent the which can be understood by all. cornerstone of that culture’s identity. These sentiments can be translated into ritual, art, and design, which ultimately shape buildings, highways and towns.

4) The act of making pilgrimages to special places is amongst the oldest of human acts of respect for nature, and one of the least understood by modern society despite the fact that one of the most popular of all tourism motives world-wide is to visit For further information about James special sacred places. Swan, his articles and books. Please go to: www.jamesswan.com 5) The lack of feeling connected to a place, especially a place where Appeared in previous issue of Fountain one lives and works, can be an Magazine.

The Light Grid These Light Centres are created consciously for healing and energy Anne & Dave Saltrese work. They act as nodal points within a matrix which forms the Light Grid. Light centres can be ancient sites, sacred spaces, stone circles, old temples, holy wells or groves of trees, as well as groups of people meeting to ground Light energy and send it out.

We are at a critical moment in the development of higher consciousness on Earth. Each person in their own way can contribute and make a difference once they have connected to the Light and grounded it. This creates an enormous conscious network of Dartmoor Light energy around the planet which This includes absent healing, ley line is called the Light Grid. activation and the Triangles network of The Earth is evolving and the the Lucius Trust Healing circles and vibrations of every living thing upon meditation centres are also linking into the Earth are increasing – this is the Light Grid creating a web of higher because the vibration of the planet is consciousness stretching right around increasing and not the other way the planet. round! In order to assist this process, The light Grid is an organic, fluid various groups and organisations network of Light energy encircling the around the world (including Earth, creating a higher vibrational Fountain,) are activating ancient sites energy field of unconditional Love and that may have lain dormant for Peace. Each person working with hundreds or thousands of years. Ley Light and sending it out every day lines are being cleared and new ones connects to the Light Grid, often are forming every day through clear, through a Light Centre. Each person conscious, Light and intention. People working with an open heart, in service, are opening up their spiritual selves for the benefit for all, is connecting and in so doing grounding Light into the Grid. Some groups may be through their bodies and creating working with animals or plants, some Light Centres. may be working with communities or countries, some may be reactivating old Light Centres that have died or

26 creating new ones through conscious We can work on these with intention, activation of particularly powerful by directing Light to them and places on the surface of the planet. unconditional Love, especially where The important thing is that we are all there has been a natural disaster. working for the benefit of all, with Love. If this is our intention we cannot The Light Grid is aligning and do harm. However, we always need to stabilising at the moment and, as each work upon our own individual Light Centre or nodal point across the motivations and intentions to ensure planet lines up and resonates with the that we are working from the clearest Grid, it will connect with the Golden and highest motives. Grid which is a higher dimensional counterpart of the Light Grid. Beams The process of grounding Light is of Golden Light connect the two grids incredibly simple. We open up to our together. The beams of Golden Light higher selves to be channels for higher penetrate the Light Centres at an angle vibrational energy. As the Light flows of 137.5 degrees. This is related to the through us, we feel peaceful, golden number or section supported, nourished, cherished and (0.61803398875) which is found whole. When the Light reaches our throughout nature everywhere. All feet, it flows into the ground and living things, plants, animals, human carries on going, linking up with other beings, etc hold within them the Light connections within the earth. golden section - so, by being in We as human beings are grounding harmony with nature and with rods for Light and the Light Grid is ourselves, we can resonate with the composed of “activated” people, Golden Light Grid. groups, sites, lines etc. stretching from deep in the Earth out to the Higher This can be demonstrated by the Self spiritual level. following equation :- 360 degrees x 0.61803398875 squared = 137.5

The angle of 137.5 degrees shows itself in the packing angle of the seeds on a sunflower head, as two interpreting spirals which form a grid pattern – the crossing points are the nodes. When applied to a sphere (like the earth) the interpenetrating spirals create the Light Grid. This can be easily

demonstrated by drawing the lines on It is very important that the Light Grid a orange. When we did this and drew stabilises. At present it is a bit wobbly, the first line, we found that we had though getting better. There are some created the Yin/Yang symbol in 3 D countries and areas of the planet where with the north and south poles the Light is not grounding very well. representing the “dots!” So the Light

Grid is formed by the higher Love and Light to the Earth consciousness of Light Centres and Light workers all over the planet Love and Light to all the connecting up to form an interlacing people of the Earth spiral network of energy. Love and Light to Every Living The Light Grid is a higher-dimensional conscious network manifesting on the Thing Earth and connecting with the Golden We are a Whole Earth Grid which is multi-dimensional. The Golden Grid steps down energy to the And we shall live in the Light Light Grid where it is grounded by individual Light Centres around and in With Love the planet Earth. This is part of the rapid evolutionary process which is Lightworkers of the Earth being experienced on and in the planet Unite in Peace and Harmony. at this time. Multi-dimensions are difficult to describe except to say that each dimension is embedded in itself – self reflecting itself ad infinitum.

The Golden Grid is a Universal Grid connecting to Light Grids on and around other planets also. As the Light Grid of the Earth aligns and stabilises, it will fully connect with the Golden Grid and then there will be a The Perpetual Choirs massive shift of consciousness on the planet. 22 Date Tour If you wish to connect into the Light by Giles Bryant Grid, you can do so by focusing on grounding Light energy every day and sending it out to link with Light Centres or to a specific place. Whether the place is local or distant makes no difference, because Light energy moves at a subliminal velocity and therefore arrives instantaneously. When grounding and sending out Light, this simple intention can be placed:

Near the end of 2012 I decided to make the night in rotation, perpetuating the a pilgrimage to all of the 22 sites praise and service of God without rest connected with Britain’s perpetual or intermission.” choir circles. Having spent four years making an album with a collection of musicians from around the world called “The Perpetual Choirs” I thought it would be fitting to visit these places and sing to the earth.

It seems this ancient ritual had been led by an order of adepts whose purpose was to literally enchant the landscape through a constant flow of sacred song. These ancients obviously had knowledge of the healing power of Album Collaborators vibration and sacred sound. The songs I first came across the tradition of would vary with the changing seasons, perpetual choirs in John Michell’s 1972 planetary movements and the passing book “City of Revelation”. John had ages of man, and were designed to help found evidence in the Welsh Triads, attune and harmonise the environment verses of great antiquity which had and population to their ever-changing incorporated knowledge from the influence. much older oral bardic tradition, about John Michell found an interesting three ancient sites - Glastonbury, geographical relationship between the Stonehenge and Llantwit Major where three known perpetual choir sites. a perpetual chant had been Glastonbury is the same distance (38.9 maintained. miles) from both Stonehenge and Llantwit Major. The angle between them is 144° which is the typical number associated with the New Jerusalem, the ideal plan of cosmic harmony on earth, and the outer angle of a ten sided decagon. John drew a line from Stonehenge at 144° (which is the exact angle of the midsummer

sunrise alignment at the site,) and In 1801, Iolo Morganwg recorded that, after 38.9 miles came to Goring on “In each of these choirs there were Thames, (a place long associated with 2,400 saints; that is there were a ancient choirs where the ancient hundred for every hour of the day and Ridgeway and other prehistoric tracks

29 meet.) John later completed the album with many wonderful musicians perpetual choir’s decagon and found such as Craig Pruess, Russell Stone, its centre – the mystical site of Lucinda Drayton, Andy Blissett, Whiteleaved Oak, a small hamlet in the Jonathan Hugh and hundreds of Malvern Hills and the exact meeting others. I have also visited Rishikesh point of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

Rishikesh, India

in India where a perpetual chant for

world peace began in 1934, and Egypt Giles at Whiteleaved Oak where the perpetual choirs is said to have taken place in certain temples. The western perpetual choirs circle, known to some as “the circle of spirit” To celebrate the perpetual choirs and has an eastern counterpart “the circle the healing power of sound, I decided of power” forming a large vesica pisces to play concerts at every point on the across the landscape of Britain. I live two circles, including the centre points. near Saffron Walden, a charming We played the finale concert at the historic market town in the north of OmYogaShow in London on the 28th Essex. It is a very musical place, October 2012 with many of the incredibly so for the size of its collaborators on the album. population. A mile away is Audley End House, a former royal palace, and site The next day I set off in my trusty van of a Benedictine Abbey, and Ring Hill, that would be my home for the next 8 an ancient earthwork, where it is said days from our home near Audley End the centre of the eastern perpetual house, the centre of the Eastern Circle choir circle is located. Originally and headed west onto the circle of discovered by Peter Quillier this circle spirit. I was stepping into the encompasses sites such as Oxford, unknown, undertaking a pilgrimage Seahenge, Dunwich, Canterbury and that I don’t know if anyone had done Guildford. before in living memory. Maybe the ancients walked these ancient circles Living in the middle of this great singing all the while….what mysteries singing circle has inspired my love of lay ahead? performing and composing music. It was a wonderful journey to record an

Stoney Stanton. Maybe in ancient times the paths between these sights were marked (as was the pilgrimage between Glastonbury and Stonehenge for example), but in today’s age the motorways and roads led me on a merry dance to find Stoney Stanton. I was just about to give up when the gods appeared and I found the church in the small village and sung a blessing of love and peace. Littlebury Ring Temple Nr centre of Eastern Circle

Some of the 22 points I had booked venues for concerts or workshops. Others, I had no idea where the geomantic points of the circle were, if they were still venerated through song, or if there were any clues I’d find indicating the historical basis of these singing circles. I had a BBC Radio interview in Worcester before my concert that night at The Grove in Malvern, and Tammy the DJ was really interested in telling the listeners about the ancient perpetual choirs. Having run a peace circle ceremony at the centre of the western circle, Whiteleaved Oak previously, I decided to hold a concert with my friend Julie Palmer-Price at The Grove nearby in Malvern. Giles before setting off from Essex

My first stop was Stoney Stratford, where I found the church of St Giles – a good omen I thought (my name is Giles). The church was locked (which was to be a common occurrence on tour), but I have often found churchyards to be places of spiritual power and natural beauty and sung there with great joy. The next stop was Julia Palmer Price at The Grove

It is a wonderful place of regular and these are important too - not just sacred music and everyone had a great the 10 geometric sites revealed by John time. Malvern itself has 18 choirs, Michell. This is a place of great power leading some weight it being near the and songs were shared with the centre of the ancient perpetual choirs elementals. In Machynlleth the circle. Of course Elgar lived nearby as atmosphere there was strongly well as Holst, the composer of the influenced by recent the abduction of a mystical Planets Suite, (he also came to young girl. It reminded me of the live in Thaxted, 7 miles from the centre importance of music to help us in of the eastern circle). difficult times. “Ho’opononpono” I sing out to this town, this situation and The next morning I set off to Uttoxeter, the entire world. which certainly needed some joy and celebration. The author of a recent book on the perpetual choirs, John Gibson-Forty spent many years dowsing the perpetual choir circle in the west, and felt the choirs point was nearby Chartley Castle. It might be so, Strata Florida Abbey but for me another locked church in Uttoxeter led me to a special needs I travelled to Strata Florida, which lies centre to share music with. on the circumference of the circle on the way to Llandovery. Strata Florida Next up was Ellesmere, a place of a was the “Glastonbury Abbey of Wales” beautiful lake from at least Saxon and it holds the memory of the times. The town was interesting and I perpetual choirs. In the visitors centre found an old earthen mound (of which I was told that the monks kept alive the there were so many on the tour), once old stories through song. They sang the site of a castle and no doubt before around a holy well initiation chamber, then having a sacred use. I sang at this unique in my travels. What a place of ancient site which is now in use as a magic and revelation. bowls club! I played in a café in Llandovery with On the way to my next stop of my good friend Madan Mohan Das, a Machynlleth I had stopped at the researcher of the perpetual choirs for incredible earthworks at Oswestry. 20 years and then travelled to Llantwit Major, one of the historical choir locations for a concert in a local pub whilst reminding the locals of the ancient singing heritage of this place.

I awoke in Glastonbury the next morning and played at the Abbey in the day, up the Tor for sunset and then This was the first of many significant in Hemp In Avalon for an uplifting sites along the perimeter of the circle,

32 concert. It was wonderful to be back the cathedral of the canals. Such a “in the heart” and to re-ignite the land welcoming energy, with many musical with the music of the perpetual choirs. concerts going on - and a toilet! (I can’t tell you how welcome this is. Living in the back of a van and digging a hole each morning is not that glamorous).

Next stop was Thistleton, a tiny hamlet where a herb farm, and a locked church were all that was on offer. More excitement was to come, a trip into Norfolk and the site of Seahenge. Recently discovered and removed by Stonehenge the next day saw us English Heritage into a museum, this singing enthusiastically with Japanese monument was unique – an upside tourists. A lady was sitting nearby down tree circle on the coast at the end writing. “Something magical happens of the sacred Peddars Way. I am sure here every day” she told us. “So many that Seahenge acted as a star map people come here and sing.” This was where sages would look within the music to me ears, that in a place of the waters and receive the revelation of the ancient perpetual choirs, spontaneous stars which they transformed into song still takes place. The last place songs for the healing of the land. on the western circle was Goring-on- Thames, a charming place where I Next morning I was in Norwich sang in the church of St Thomas on Cathedral singing with a joyful their lovely organ, sending the congregation in this beautiful acoustic vibrations out along the waters of the building. Then on to Dunwich, once a sacred Isis. nationally important port and religious centre now a small village, where I ran The next stop was a shift in energy as I a lovely workshop at the Phoenix stepped onto the eastern circle again, Centre. The next point on the map is travelling to Oxford. The geomantic out at sea (showing that the circle point here has been identified as might have its origins in times when Blenheim Palace, but I chose to play a you could walk to France), so I got as concert in the city centre at the Friends close as I could, at Clacton in Essex, Meeting House. Through much and sang out to the waters. persistence I managed to get a radio interview at BBC Oxford and was The next site became the highlight of expecting a good crowd. However, no- the entire trip – getting to play at one came! We played a beautiful Canterbury Cathedral. I played a concert regardless – singing to the workshop for a group with dementia earth and with the angels. and then with the blessings of Dr David Flood, the head of music, played The next morning restored my faith in the chapter house. If I ever knew somewhat, at the wonderful (and the power of sound to transform unusually open) church of Brauston –

33 consciousness and to help heal through benefiting the ley energy system it was here. I was interviewed by the cathedral’s media girl who was so excited by the perpetual choirs – maybe it will return one day to this holy place.

My concert in Tunbridge Wells was cancelled so I found myself playing at The Rock Inn nearby. A pub filled with pheasant shooters was greeted with sacred songs - what a combination. My final stop was Guildford where I sang at the old castle in this very A 30-minute film of Giles’ journey can musical town before returning to be seen online at Saffron Walden and a homecoming www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnvEOC concert where I was greeted by family, WokaQ. friends and a hot warm bath. My Journey Having undertaken such an epic journey I have been left in no doubt as By Elen Sentier to the existence of the ancient perpetual choir circles. And what is Long ago and far away, in 1976 and more, a third circle, “the circle of love” London Town, I heard about Alfred has recently been discovered – which I Watkins and ley lines, I’ve been am researching now. following the paths ever since and I In truth the perpetual choirs is still now live a few miles outside Hereford, going on right now. Can you hear the Watkins’ home town. About the same birds singing? Can you hear the time I got to know Hamish Miller, Paul Broadhurst, Michael Poynder and mother earth’s pulse? Can you hear Colin Bloy; they taught me lots about the angels? If you are still, you’ll hear dowsing and I followed Hamish and the sacred sound of Aum – the ever- present perpetual choir. Paul’s adventures on the Michael/Mary line with delight. It “The Perpetual Choirs” CD is available made perfect sense to me, the from www.worldhealingproject.com or intertwining of lines, of the Lady and through itunes. Giles loves to play the Lord who I had been brought up sacred music concerts and workshops, with. and he can be contacted on 01799 Not long after finding the Fountain 521966 if you’d like to bring him to your area. folk, I found Guy Ragland Phillips’ book “Brigantia a Mysteriography” which tells of a long south/north road or track through Britain that crosses

34 the west/east of the Michael/Mary line on Lambourne Down, close by the Uffington White Horse (or dragon). All along both lines are congeries of sacred sites. The Belinus line runs from the south coast of Britain, the estuary of the river Meon at Fareham in Hampshire, all the way up through Britain and the Highlands of Scotland to the sea off Caithness, just past Loch Hope at Inverhope.

Belenos - Sun

Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare have spent fifteen years walking and working and discovering more about this line – see their book “The Spine of Albion.” They noticed there are many “Elen” sites, wells and springs along its length as well – Elen of the Ways is the ancient deer goddess of Britain – and they show that Elen is a part of this line-energy. The two lines – the west- east Michael/Mary line and the south- Belenos - Cerrunos north Belinus/Elen line – both carry and weave the feminine and masculine The Belinus and the Michael/Mary energy. lines form a crossing of ways, a vertical axis and horizontal axis. The vertical This continual intertwining of the axis is the warp of the loom, the feminine and masculine energies is horizontal is the weft. The warp links integral to the ways of Britain, the us between worlds, between Earth and place of the Brythonic peoples. The Sky; the weft is about the weaving of stories and hints of Elen go back many our lives on the Earth. Guy Ragland thousands of years, in 2011 a cave Phillips gave the line the name of the drawing of a reindeer was found in a “Belinus line” from one of the old kings cave in Wales and dated back to of the Brigantes but that name comes 13,000 years ago. The name “Elen” in from ancient times and the name of several European languages either the Celtic sun god, Beli. means or relates to deer and deer were

us to good water; indeed the reindeer led us to all the things we needed to live. They even led us to the fly agaric mushroom that they love to eat and we learned that if we drank their pee after they had eaten the mushrooms we could journey without the risk of the alkaloids killing us, so they taught us how to live and dream and journey. Always, the reindeer showed us the way; we followed their deer trods.

The grandmother reindeer knew where she needed to be, knew where she Flying Deer needed to lead the herd. She had the one of the first animals that humans line of where to go in her mind’s eye worked with. I say worked with rather but the track she would walk to get than just saying hunted because the there would be twisting and turning, relationship was far more complex weaving its way along the straight-line- than the simple vision of hunters we’ve path between here and there. This is inherited from the Victorian like the twisting lines that weave archaeologists. Watch any of the around the old straight track. peoples who still work with reindeer – the Saami, the Caribou Folk of the north-western American continent or the people of northern Mongolia to see how this is so. Reindeer are not domestic able as are our modern cattle, they still have the migration instinct strongly within their psyche and need Swimming Reindeer to move between summer and winter I was born into the ways of Elen from pastures. In ancient of days our my family and the wise folk of the ancestors used to follow them across places where I grew up. Both Dartmoor the lands on these great journeys. We and Exmoor are deer country, places of would take beasts for food, clothing, the deer goddess. I was brought up in tent-shelters, cordage, bone and antler the ways of the Lady and her Guardian for tools; we would befriend some of … the goddess guarded by the god, the the females and be able to milk them feminine as the Spirit of the Land and when they had calved, so getting fat the masculine as the guardian and and protein, cheese, curds, milk, even husbandman of the Land. This duality dream-drinks from the fermented is integral to the Celtic tradition. milk. The reindeer would lead us through places with good herbs and I’ve walked the old tracks all my life, greens for food and medicines; they led Dad and my woodsman uncles used to

36 take me out walking when I was a guardian then she grants him child. Later on, from about ten years sovereign power …quite the other way old, I’d be off with my pony for days at up to how we think of things now. a time, exploring the land and learning from it. Years later, when I was The concept of the goddess testing the god to see if he is up to being her introduced to Watkins’ ley lines more things began to come together and guardian runs through many of our then, with Hamish and Paul walking British songs and stories. The Fith the caduceus track, the straight and Fath Song, the Twa Magicians and the the spiralling set the light bulb off Coal Black Smith all tell of the chase the goddess leads her potential mate to “ping!” inside my head. Of course! The lady and her guardian, the lord. They see if he can keep up; they are certainly were the world-tree-pole and the not tales of rape, they teach us about dancers around her in the village every Sovereignty. Elen grants Macsen the May-time. They were, what was behind kingship through her own right, the Morris dancers, they were the because she is the goddess, he cannot dragon-Oss and the Teaser from my be king without her. She is the Earth- Cornish relatives. They were the story spirit; he is he Guardian of the Earth. of Elen and Macsen which was one of It comes out in all our stories and in the first stories Dad told me when I the instruments often used in ritual was a baby. like the cup and the athame. The grail- The Dream of Macsen Wledig is in the cup is the symbol for the holding the Mabinogion, a collection of lore-stories vessel, the womb, the Earth herself; brought together by Lady Charlotte the spear or sword is the symbol for Guest and the Rhys-Jones brothers in the phallus that defends and enlivens Victorian times. The tales are the womb. wonderful, strange, tortuous and We’ve lost this concept over the last complicated and Macsen’s story is no couple of millennia; it was speeded up exception. Told me by Dad rather than enormously after the Norman being read out of a book it had come conquest of Britain before which alive for me from my earliest years. women held land, property, power, Like all lore-stories, the story of were judges, could make war. This loss Macsen and Elen tells us about how and the misconceptions it leaves us the world(s) work. This one also tells with have made it near impossible for us how it is the goddess-queen who is us to know how to work with the Earth, the Land and that it is the god-king how to respect the goddess as who is her guardian and protector. sovereignty, and how to ask her what she needs rather than knowing best Briefly, the story goes that Elen – the and imposing on her. goddess – sends a dream to a potential guardian-husband to see if he can The twining of the straight lines and interpret it and find her. Macsen the twisting meandering lines – succeeds. She is the power, she is Watkins straight tracks and Elen’s Sovereignty and, if he can be a good snaking ways – are still there in the

37 land if we reach out to them. They you will do it the way that works for want us to ask, to come to them, to ask you. how to work with them. Long ago they reminded me of the caduceus staff, the Greek symbol of the healer. The straight track holds the way between earth and sky, the idea, the concept, the direction; the coiling snakes twining their ways up and down and around the central staff hold the paths to bring us there, to the healing. Following the deer trods and the ley lines is this intertwined path, two halves of one whole. If we can find our As I see it - and this is only my opinion - there are things that help and things way back to Elen’s Ways, the dragon that hinder. A helpful thing is a back- and ley lines, again we may be able to ground in meditation, because this put ourselves back on track. helps the mind to settle. If your mind www.elensentier.co.uk is accustomed to settling, you will find it easier to see what to do and how to do it. I don't think it much matters what your meditation path has been. Are you new Another thing that helps is the ability to work on your own. There may be To times when you feel strongly that a certain thing should be done, in a Fountain International particular place, but you can't find any like-minded people to do it with. You By Suzanne Singer might, for example, be drawn to a particular place, to do some kind of visualisation. So never mind that you can't get a team together. Just follow your own inner call and do it by yourself. Even better, say Hallo to your "invisible assistants" and invite them along. See what happens. Are you new to Fountain? If you are - welcome! Welcome to a loose-knit If you are new, you may well find that gang of individuals who have some people recommend various books to similar aims, namely, cleansing and you. We live in a culture where a lot of energising our planet. Some people say spiritual advice, or whatever it's called, the correct word is "releasing". Make comes from books rather than face-to- of that what you will. face from another person. The number of spiritual books is truly astounding! Sometimes we get together and social- Can they all be true? Can they all be ise, sometimes we work together in useful? Well, no. You will quickly find groups large or small, and sometimes that some help and others are a waste we don't. We are not conformists. We of time. See what makes sense to you hope that whatever you decide to do,

38 personally. If it's useful, keep reading. The Cerne Giant - If it isn't, hand it back or pass it on. Or even throw it in the dustbin. I have Landscape, Gods and the done this with one particular author. Stargate by Don't take gurus too seriously. Proba- bly no-one in Fountain will try to sell Peter Knight you Gurudom. A good teacher, in any subject, is a very useful person and to Author, researcher and dowser Peter be cherished. This doesn't mean they Knight has just published his 8th book, know everything. By all means listen, in which he details candidates for the but make up your own mind. No identity of the Giant, his connections matter who you are, no matter what with the landscape around him, new your background, you personally have astronomical discoveries, and his links accumulated a lot, a LOT, of experi- with a Stargate, and ancient portal to ence. Don't waste it. Don't let anybody the Afterlife. Here are some key take it away from you. extracts from this ground-breaking work. It will help to get involved with "earthy" activities, such as your local Over many years I read various walking group, gardening, conserva- accounts and theories concerning the tion groups, anything at all where you Cerne Giant, and in response quested are outdoors, getting your boots through his ancient landscape seeking muddy and your hands dirty. his hidden mysteries for myself. He had always fascinated me, to some extent because we actually seemed to know so very little about him. Etched out in chalk on the side of Giant Hill (itself a phallic-shaped ridge!) he looks like the victim at a crime scene, still clutching the club that he used, in vain, to repulse his murderer. The Giant gazes out to us from the hillside, and yet speaks to us in a language we cannot comprehend, and projects symbolism we can interpret any number of ways. His left hand seems to Whatever you are doing, have fun with beckon us to follow him into his it, have a laugh, enjoy. There is no mystery, into the very hill itself, need whatsoever for pious faces. No perhaps back to times long gone, when need to go all holy. We are down - to - gods and giants walked the land, when earth people leading normal lives. You fertility rites and phallic worship were could pass any one of us in the street not regarded as deviant cult practices, and not suspect a thing. If you can but fundamental to every culture think very big, (and very strange?) throughout Europe and beyond. Folk- while leading an outwardly normal life, lore tells us that many women and you are one of us. couples would go to the Giant to engender fertility, as well as for general Welcome! good fortune.

Although there has been much debate The total height of the figure is 64.5m regarding the age of the hill figure, (211ft) from the bottom of his feet to several academics have come down on the top of the club. His body length the side that he dates from the Iron from heel to the top of the head is 55m Age, based on his appearance, icono- graphy, and the fact that the Cerne (180ft) and the knobbled club he Valley was well populated by the local brandishes is 37m (121ft) long. He Durotriges at that time. A sacred proudly displays his recently-extended spring, the Silver Well, is to the south, phallus, which attains a length of 7.2m and the Trendle, a Romano-British (23½ft). Although he is not bashful, enclosure, is above his head. The Giant neither is he brazen - he is in fact just has, however, undergone many acts of ‘doing his own thing’. The phallus ‘cosmetic surgery’ over the past 2000 years or so, including an extension to points towards an azimuth of 75º and I his manhood! have discovered that this marked some key astronomical alignments back in Over many centuries he went from the Iron Age. being a god to an embarrassment, from being highly revered to utterly The Giant’s head is about 7.3m (24ft) loathed. Despite all this, he continues long, a noticeably rotund, somewhat to show off his mighty and impressive baby-like, feature, typical of much physique. Unlike the Uffington White Celtic artwork. Although the rudeness, Horse, which was created by the removal of topsoil and turf to reveal the child-like simplicity, and the the white chalk, the Cerne Giant was uncomplicated manner of the Giant is defined by the cutting of trenches up to sometimes commented on negatively, I half a metre deep into the bedrock, find him functional, powerful, and to which were then back-filled with chalk the point (quite literally!). His knees that was rammed in to ground level. are bent, one foot slightly raised,

giving him inbuilt animation. The side- on depiction of his feet is typical of Egyptian and Phoenician imagery. His feet both face north, and he appears as if about to stride off along the hillside. But where is the Giant heading off to – is it simply to the north? Or perhaps he is walking into our history, into our collective cultural memory. I found that the Giant strides to where the stars Deneb and Vega were setting in the Iron Age; it seems the big fellow also had one eye on the stars. Will the real Cerne Giant The Cerne Giant please stand up?

with the Trendle Temple above. I undertook a thorough investigation Image: Pete Harlow – Wikipedia as to the identity of the Giant, and

40 ended up with a surprisingly long list of 20 suspects. Space does not permit me to go into too much detail here. Recurring threads and themes would suggest that archetypical cross-cultural processes are at work; the suspects are often a hunter or a giant, possessing great strength, often wielding a club, sometimes associated with the dead, fertility or are protector gods; they are usually nude and often expose their phallus. Sometimes one or two of these A resurrected ithyphallic Osiris criteria are met, sometimes all. Dagda, reclining on a hillside, from a Cernunnos, Odin, Thor, Bran, Hercu- papyrus dated c.1000BC. (After les, Beelzebub, Lugh, Succellus, Mysliwiec 1998). Taranis, Bacchus, Hel/Helis, Bel/Belinus, and several others, all Is a specific identification necessarily presented credentials that possibly fitted the bill. an end goal in itself? Was the figure, from the very start, an all- encompassing image, one that could accommodate everyone, regardless of their religious and cultural disparities? Is this why he survived Roman Imperialism, Saxon/Celtic settlers, and the dogma of the Church? Celtic deities and heroes would often evolve into others, and the Romans famously adopted local deities when they moved into an area newly under their control. The Giant may have been a universal icon, perhaps periodically refashioned, that spoke to the various cultures that walked along the Cerne Valley; anyone could relate to him. Is this not the case today?

That said, three candidates loamed large over the rest – Orion, Osiris and From Seldon Hill, Orion rises out Gwyn ap Nud. The myths of these gods of the distant skyline directly show many parallels with each other, over Giant Hill in the Iron Age. and became even closer related when I The last star rises right over the Giant. This example is on Oct 20, began to delve into the astronomical 50AD. The arrow marks the alignments that involved the Cerne Giant. Giant. Orion is the Giant of Classical mythology, who brandished a club, journeyed to the Underworld and was

41 a rather randy and amorous chap! Giant, Orion was rising right over the Osiris is one of the chief Egyptian Cerne Giant as seen from certain deities, who aids people’s passage to sacred hills to the west. Also, from the Otherworld, and is ithyphallic. On down in the valley below the Giant, one papyrus, shown here, Osiris standing in line with his phallus, reclines on a hillside, one hand Orion’s club rises out of Giant Hill extended, with his phallus displayed – directly above the Giant! Just as Gwyn now where have we seen that before! ap Nud (aka Lugh) rises as Orion over And Osiris was represented in the sky the Tor at Glastonbury when viewed by the constellation of Orion! Now, in from St Edmund Hill, so he rises over Wales and around Glastonbury, Gwyn the Cerne Giant. More than this, the ap Nud was the leader of the Wild Egyptians believed, as well as several Hunt, who is represented in the other ancient cultures, that a portal to heavens by the stars of Orion – a the Otherworld was located in the sky thread now emerges. But what has this where the ecliptic (the path of the sun) got to do with a phallic hill figure in crosses the galactic plane. This sacred Dorset? Let’s see. place is above Orion, in line with his raised club – the club points to the Starry starry night. Stargate point. And where did this point in the sky rise in the Iron Age – directly above the Giant! Osiris/Gwyn ap Nud leads the dead into the Otherworld – and the Giant points the way. At this time, the Milky Way rose vertically out of Giant Hill, the only time it can ever do this. Was this milky river seen as the semen of the copulating Giant?

In the summer, Regulus, the brightest star of Leo, rises directly in line with the Giant, as does the constellation of Hercules, one of the suspects. Also, as Hercules rises over Giant Hill, his club reaching down to mirror and almost touch the club of the Giant.

The Giant also walks to the north along The bright star Regulus rising in the hillside. I found that his feet point line with the phallus. This to the last places where Deneb and optimum time for this view was Vega, two bright stars, are visible. c.50BC – 250AD. Deneb is the brightest star in Cygnus Running my computer programmes, I and this constellation holds the Great found that in the Iron Age, the Rift, another Stargate point in ancient favoured date for the creation of the myths. The Giant looks west, and

42 around this time Cygnus, the Northern Either way, seen from east, the Giant is Cross, stands vertical in front of him. It the Summer King. The Giant does not is as if a symbol of Christianity and an have a beard, so is this a sign that he is icon of Paganism are in a stand-off. associated with Spring and Summer? There is the story of John Barleycorn, Taurus the Bull, an ancient fertility the British harvest god, who only symbol, and Sirius, the brightest star grows a beard at harvest time, seen as in the sky that represented Isis, also the wheat and barley sheaths. He is cut have alignments in the Cerne Valley. down, eaten as bread or made into Sometimes it all depends where and beer, yet he has a triumphant return in when one stands for these to be the Spring. This time of year is marked observed; nothing is in isolation on the by the spectacular Abbots Bromley landscape, each sacred site being a part Horn Dance, held in early September, of something greater than the part. whose horns have been carbon dated (Diagrams of all the above alignments to prehistoric times. The association are in my book.) between Lugh and hounds may be because Sirius appeared in the pre- A man for all seasons dawn skies around the end of Standing next to the river in front of July/early August (after 70 days of the Giant, we see the sun’s daily march invisibility). If we see Lugh as the north along the hill from mid-April, constellation Orion, then that until in early-middle May it rises over constellation had already appeared in the phallus. It then continues, at a dawn skies a couple of week before; slower pace, until the solstice standstill but the festival is held when his point is reached in June. It then hunting dog, Sirius, finally makes an returns south, rising over the Giant at appearance over the Giant! During Lugnassad. From this vantage point, winter months, Orion is the Winter the sun rises over the hill about 1hr King, magnificent at night when the 20mins to 1hr 30mins after the true sun’s power wanes. time of sunrise, due to the 10-12º elevation of the hill, but again this depends on where you stand; the nearer the Giant, the higher the hill appears, the later the sunrise. The fact that the sun rises over the Giant at Lugh’s festival bolsters the case for the Giant’s being Lugh or Nodens, or Bel or Helis. Maybe the valley was where the Lugnassad ceremonies were held, as the sunrise-phallus alignment The sunrises over Giant Hill coincided with his festival. during the Iron Age, as seen from the valley below, in line with his phallus.

It had been suggested some time ago local hills within sight of the Giant. The that the Giant might be associated with geographical relationship between Beltaine sunrises in early May these hills created observation points (Castleden 1996). But no one had on key solar dates. I cannot believe the walked the landscape and witnessed people of the Cerne Valley had not any events to prove this. Early in my seen these two thousand years ago. studies I realised an alignment existed From Seldon Hill to High Cank is 35- between the Bellingstone, a megalith 45° depending where you stand (they on a hill across the valley from the are not precise points on the landscape Giant, with the Beltaine sunrise. In because they are relatively close 2007 I witnessed the Beltaine sunrise together). This is also the direction of from the Bellingstone, and the sun did the midsummer sunrise around June indeed rise over the Giant. This was a 21/22. A henge and a tumulus on High truly magical moment, and I wondered Cank mark sites of prehistoric sanctity. how long it had been since this event Seldon Hill is involved in another solar had been seen from where it was alignment. Because the hill is higher intended. The sun rose slightly to the than the Giant, when viewed from the right of the axis of the Giant, and from latter the sun sets into the sides of here the phallus does not line up with Seldon Hill around both May Day and the sunrise; to get that view we have to Lughnassad! Even more than this, stand down in the valley. For not long when viewed from Seldon Hill, the sun after the sun rises from the rose out of the distant skyline over Bellingstone, it also clears the hill Giant Hill at Imbolc, and again around when viewed from the valley floor in Samhain, the latter alignment directly front of the Giant, in line with the axis being above the Giant in the Iron Age. of his phallus (75º). This observation And there is more! For when one point is key to several astronomical stands on High Cank, the midwinter observations, and earthworks were sun sets into Seldon Hill. recorded here. In the Iron Age, the sun rose over Giant Hill throughout the summer – the Giant is the Summer King who reigns from Beltaine to Lugnassad. Conversely, the Imbolc sun sets into the Bellingstone when viewed from the Giant, an event I witnessed on Feb 2, 2013.

Every year in May the sun passes through the sky immediately above the outstretched hand of Orion, and above Is this Iron Age club-wielder, the extended arm of the Giant; perhaps from Gaul, the god Ogmios, or is both were seen as the ‘Hand of God’. it Beelzebub? Weam Common Hill, Seldon Hill, (Wikipedia Common Licence.) Dogbury Hill, and High Stoy are all

I have spoken elsewhere that solar Gwyn or any other number of gods we alignments can be associated with can connect with. Our focus today occupation and seasonal ceremonial should perhaps change from, ‘How old sites, such as in the Avebury area, and and who is he?’ to ‘What does he how all monuments should be taken in represent to us today?’ What messages the context of their landscape setting. does he have for us? In what direction For it has been my experience that very is he leading us? What truths does he few sacred sites can be looked at as hide? This was, after all, the thought truly secular and separate from those process behind the people who first with which they share the landscape. scoured him on the hillside around Everything is connected on some level, 2000 years ago. and this would also have been the mind-set of our Iron Age ancestors. Finally, I would like to suggest that although we repair him and tend for Around the valley, more solar his needs, the Giant does not belong to alignments took place. Viewing the Mankind, for he is more than an summer solstice from the sacred object. He belongs to the landscape spring, Silver Well, would also have across which he strides. We fence him been spectacular at this time, as the in, yet he refuses to be restrained. He sun rose at the top of Yelcombe calls to us across the valley – enticing Bottom, the long valley that aligns with us to walk alongside him into his the sun only at this time of the year. mysteries. It is an invitation we would The midwinter sun rose out of Black do well to accept. For our destination Hill directly in line with the spring is never a place, but rather a new way when viewed from the valley below the of looking at things. The real Cerne Giant. And when viewed from High Giant is already standing up, and Stoy, a sacred hill north of the Giant, maybe at last he is ready to tell us why. the sun rises out of Dogbury at the end of October - Samhain. People of the Extracts from, The Cerne Giant – Cerne Valley had found a place where Landscape, Gods and the Stargate the hills, sun and stars all connected, (pub. by Stone Seeker Publishing). and it was the Giant that brought it all £11.99. Illustrated. 192pp. Visit together. www.stoneseeker.net for details of local talks and tours based on the Staying power – an icon for book. today. Book Review I believe that myths can be brought to Sophia’s Egg life today, every time we stand at the By Suzanne Thomas viewing point and stare across the valley floor at the Giant, or look up at Sophia’s Egg By Bert Janssen the stars above his head; this brings the Giant to life. We can either see the Isbn 9 789081 695817 Giant as just some chalk lines on a hill, Frontier Publishing or we can see him as Lugh, Osiris,

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As the details of this book and the Sophia’s Egg is a mind bending, author are so eloquently put by thought provoking spiritual thriller Janssen himself, on his flyer, I will written in the combined tradition of reproduce these below. “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Celestine Prophecy” and set in the Dutch native, Bert Janssen, is an powerful and magical landscape of award winning author, researcher, and Wiltshire, England. Sophia’s Egg is the inspirational entertainer. His interest New “Gnostic” Testament wrapped in a in the power of shapes, form, harmony, visionary fictional frame work founded and geometry has led him into the on historical fact and contemporary mysterious worlds of quantum science, research. It merges science Gothic cathedrals, crop circles, sacred (psychology and quantum physics) sites and Inka shamanism. He travels with different shamanistic and esoteric all over the world to study, photograph insights and shakes the holy house of and report on these subjects, which organised religion by asking the has led to the production of three questions they are most afraid to documentaries. Bert Janssen has answer. written numerous articles, is the author of several books, and has I came across this little gem at the become one of the most, high energy, Glastonbury Symposium. At first I was mind provoking performers, a little bit put off by the front cover, as storytellers, and inspiring entertainers I am not an overtly religious person, of the world, who time and again but something inside said that I uncovers and exposes the most couldn’t leave without the book, so improbable cross connections and home it came. links. This book is ultimately one man’s Paul Stokely, a 28yr old London based journey towards enlightenment, using accountant, becomes unwillingly a fictional hero, but engaging him with entangled in an adrenaline fuelled history, science and spiritual insights mystical adventure with the British etc. The book races along and is a great Army, the British Intelligence Service, page turner. It is written in a and the Church as main players. As masterful, easy to read style, with Paul struggles to comprehend and spiritual knowledge peppered

46 throughout the book. (You need more In which all life was birthed: in than one reading to make the most of our mind’s eye, this book!) We connect to the Source. Janssen is very knowledgeable on his subjects, but as with all things spiritual you have to work with the things that you are drawn too, and feel true to you. Although I loved this book, and it was great for me, there was one thing that I could not resonate with, so I left that to one side. But on the whole, I can whole heartedly recommend this book. If you feel drawn give it a try, you won’t regret it.

Also, having heard Janssen speak at a Glastonbury conference, he is a powerhouse of energy and fun, and if you have the chance to hear him speak, Innocent, but learning, don’t miss it!!! Our paths will follow

The golden light of visions, Poetry Corner And in the magic of the cosmos

Our spirits will observe

Night Time Thoughts And learn to follow in love.

In the dark embodied calling, We share our truth, to serve the Creator, The stillness of life begins. The Creator in us, as one; The electricity of the Stars. All connected, In our tingling bodies and our beating hearts For all the days of our time,

Vibrations live, present and For Peace and for Love. past. Sarah Austin Remember the waters of the

universe

Eyes of Light This force supports all of creation, including all of nature, our planet earth, and all humans, equally and unconditionally

Purpose guides the force to allow experiences to happen throughout creation. Everyday events are pregnant with mean- I look in the mirror and what ing, often at many levels. From do I see? all of these we learn, and con- A woman in a mirror looking tinue to learn. back at me.

Lines of experience on my face. I give thanks for the gift of life Have I lived life at my pace. which allows me to awaken

each day refreshed by blessed My face does not always tell the sleep, and which gives me an- tale. other day of experiences and I look in my eyes to see beyond learning the pale.

They say eyes are the “windows I give thanks for the warmth of of the soul.” the sun, and for the food from A place of experiences, of lives the earth, the water and the air and roles. which nourishes all life

Looking into my eyes I stand on I recognise that life is a mirror – the edge of eternity. that if I withhold love from Feeling all is One. Linked to all someone, it will be withheld in fraternity. from me, and if I block the flow The eyes are vehicles of the and rhythm of life, it will be light. blocked for me. On the other The light is energy, through hand, I can allow an infinite ef- which we take flight. fortless flow of love through me if I choose Suzanne Thomas

A Wish for Life I give thanks and joy through my every waking moment, I respect, love and honour the through song, dance, laughter, Life which flows equally love, joy and all the things that through all aspects of creation I do including me

I am helped to listen to the still Letters to the Editor small voice of truth within me, and to recognise and follow the inner knowing that connects directly to and is supported by Life. This way I avoid danger and temptations, as I follow the path for the highest good of all, that leads to bliss I feel nourished and supported from within – for I am content, and leave others free to be If you would like to put finger to themselves. I release the need to keyboard and send me an e mail, plunder or steal energy from through the Editor’s button, with others, recognising that I can regards to thoughts on Fountain access an infinite source of love International, the work or research and energy from Life if I allow that you are doing, or if you have come myself to across an interesting group or book working in the similar field as this For we each and all are part of magazine covers, get in touch. Life, part of the great Dance of Life, and we all dance together I have always envisioned this magazine to be a communication centre. And so be it for Eternity. Don’t be shy, I know that there are a Andrew Tresidder. lot of interesting people out there with interesting things to say. I’ve always found that bouncing and sharing ideas to be very invigorating, and sometimes even life changing.

So come on, I don’t bite, well, not after my first cup of tea. Let the energies bubble up, and enjoy the ride.

And Finally from the Editor and arteries of your community…… When it has finished, close your flower For those of you interested in doing a into its bud like form again, retaining “Fountain type Mediation,” please find part of the Pure Love and Light energy, the following offering suggestion. so that you can share it with others in your normal daily life…… At a peaceful time of day, when you can be alone and undisturbed by the Sense the room again, feel yourself telephone, sit in a comfortable chair back in your chair, wiggle your toes with your eyes closed. and fingers, and then open your eyes.

You could play some relaxing music, without lyrics. Or if you have difficulty focussing on your focal point, you could gaze at a picture of it. In this relaxed state, let go of your daily worries and thoughts that you may have.

Visualise yourself as a flower bud, under a dome of golden energy……Feel yourself drawing up the brown/green energy from the earth’s heart centre, through your feet, up your legs, into your chest, and place this energy in your own heart centre…… Feel the bond of love between yourself and the Earth…… Then begin to draw down the white fire of Cosmic Love from the spiritual realms, through the top of your head, down your neck, into the chest, and place it also in your heart centre…… Allow these two energies to mix and blend…… Slowly the com- Aim for the highest potential bined energy begins to expand and fill the whole of your being…… It fills you In all things. with pure love, light, harmony and joy…… Allow yourself to accept any of Why aim for second best. this energy which you may need to make yourself whole…… Visualise your The time is right to shoot for the flower bud beginning to open, with the energy expanding further into the Stars. room, filing the building and spilling out onto the street……When you feel that the time is right, visualise yourself sending this energy to your focal point, cleansing it and filling it with Unconditional Love…… See it sparkling and buzzing with energy…… See it, then pouring back out of the focal point, flowing into the earth around it, and flowing into the veins