We then headed the next day to soak up the healing vibrations of the nearby Chalice Well (also located in Glastonbury) … “There really are no words to describe the feeling we had whilst in Chalice Well Gardens beyond peace, calm, and contentment. The gardens leave you with a tremendous sense of well-being that lasts […]
This is the Chalice Well’s Lion’s Head Font in Glastonbury. A purportedly healing spring that attains its red coloring from its exceptionally high iron content … “You’ve been walking in circles, searching. Don’t drink by the water’s edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.” ~ Jeanette Berson
And this was the Chalice Well’s famed “Pilgrim’s Footbath”, where pilgrims of times both older and more current came to bathe their weary feet in the spring’s cool & healing waters … “You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch the same.” ~ Erwin MacManus “As my sufferings mounted […]
And here is the Chalice Well’s “Vesica Pool” (again, located in Glastonbury, England); named as such because the inner portion of its two overlapping circles creates a sacred symbol known as the Vesica Pisces, an oval aureole often represented in artistic renderings as a glow of energy surrounding a person who is considered to be […]
Penultimately, we then visited the White Spring (which was located across the street from the Chalice Well in Glastonbury); supposedly the same font where King Arthur’s knights drank before they set out on their various quests … “To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are […]
And then finally, our mystically wondrous Journey came to its energy-laden conclusion in the mystic ruins of Avebury (England), where I strolled along the Giant’s Causeway, feeling small yet somehow importantly connected to it all … “The multiple rings of Avebury are cloaked with mysteries which archaeologists have only begun to unravel … The lengthy […]
This is Silbury Hill (a short walk’s distance from Avebury, England), where a purposefully constructed ridge near its summit makes it possible to see two sunrises on a single morning every Spring Equinox (by simply viewing the first sunrise from its apex, and then sliding down the hill to the aforementioned ledge to view the […]
This is the year I was blessed to witness the birth of my son; which to this day remains one of the most amazing moments of my truly wonder-laden life … “Do not say, ‘It is morning’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child […]
Later that same year, Sandra & Duncan & I returned to England and visited the out-of-the-way wonderment that is St. Nectan’s Glen (located near Tintagel) … “Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
And this was the summer when the Wildwood Labyrinth (located on Alexzanna Farms in Wildwood, Georgia) was finally completed (after having begun its digging three summers previous in 1997) … “Walking the labyrinth is one way to induce a contemplative state. It is symbolic of walking the spiritual path; one’s personal journey of illumination.” ~ […]
And this was the year I made my life’s very first solo pilgrimage: back to the Glastonbury Tor in England. It bears noting that the ultimate destination of any pilgrimage becomes clearer once we realize that it is not necessary to get closer to arrive; when we finally realize that pilgrimage – like Life itself […]
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