We've been enjoying viewing Robin of Sherwood   which has Michael Praed in the heroic woodsman-archer-rebel role.  Many people would have viewed it years ago on TV, but it's new to our eyes.  It's interesting to note an element of pagan references woven into the plot, one obvious example being the appearances of Herne the Hunter.  Even these-days, with the ever-growing avalanche of New Age fluff, it isn't often that a TV series or film contains references to Britain's pre-Xtian religions.  And on those occasions when they do, the tendency is to trot out stereotypical superstitions and historical inaccuracies.  The argument for this claims that viewers want entertainment over factual information.  The result is that many people mistake fiction for fact. Viewers don't want to know that people living rough in a forest would have been crawling with lice, ticks and fleas.  They don't want heroes with decaying teeth, rickets and other visual signs of life-lon

We watched an interesting film last night, The Client , which had Susan Sarandon in the role of a lawyer who was trying to represent and protect a young boy, played by a twelve-year old Brad Renfro, who had witnessed the suicide of a Mafia lawyer.  The FBI and the Mafia are both convinced that the boy knows more than he's telling. Sarandon was later awarded a Bafta for Best Actress for this film which launched Renfro's career.  He went on to act in over twenty-one films, but then threw it all away by becoming a heroin addict.  He died in 2008, aged just twenty-six, of a heroin overdose. Maybe he'll become another of those dead 'could-have-beens' which the media love to idolise.  Jimmy Dean and Jim Morrison are their favourites.  It's so easy to project fantasies onto a star who isn't around to wreck their own image.  Dead poster boys don't go bald or chubby - well, Jim's weight ballooned but those pics are quietly set aside - or check into rehab

"We are now witnessing the greatest transition in the history of the human race. " - Michio Kaku

"The idea (of Lucifer) really is a recognition of two different levels: one, the archetypal level of the collective consciousness of your planet, when viewed through a negative matrix. The other being the recognition that there were among the Anunnaki disagreements, discrepancies about how things were being done and one band was cut off from the home world and left upon the earth, and thus represented the concept of the fallen god, the fallen angels." - Robert JR Graham Source: http://robertjrgraham.com/2010/11/01/the-origins-of-lucifer/  

"Galileo Galilei...supported Copernicus’ view that the Earth orbited the Sun, a “heliocentric” theory which the Church declared contrary to Scripture...  Giordano Bruno not only supported the heliocentric view, he also claimed there are multiple worlds beyond Earth, each orbiting their own sun....  The idea of aliens and multiple worlds is not new for the Church.... The Vatican even sponsored an astrobiology workshop in 2009. "Philosophers have been grappling with the implications of alien life for hundreds of years, if not longer. But until aliens are found, says (Vatican astronomer Brother Guy) Consolmagno, these issues will remain in the realm of science fiction instead of religion or science.   “I think that’s a very important role that science fiction has to play, because at this point we’re just playing with ideas,” says Consolmagno. “We’re just exploring the space where the ideas could be. We don’t know – we don’t have the answers. That’s why it’s so much fun!” Sou

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"The last time a lunar eclipse happened on a solstice was 372 years ago, in 1638...  A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth lines up between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun’s rays and casting its shadow on the moon, NASA says...  As the moon moves into Earth’s shadow, it appears to change colour, turning from gray to orange to deep red. The new colour stems from indirect sunlight that passes through Earth’s atmosphere and casts a glow on the moon...  The Ursid meteor shower might also be in view Tuesday morning." Source:  http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/20/strangers-in-the-night-lunar-eclipse-solstice-meet-again/?hpt=C2 "Full Moons highlight the completion and maturity of projects, and in this case... will highlight the Gemini/Sagittarius polarity and themes of intelligence, thought, and communication.  It is time to realise the power of our inner thoughts and desires, and to perhaps re-evaluate where we have been and on what path we are going.  Both the Su

Philip Carr-Gomm, Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) has just told me that my description of Lily's meeting with Ross Nichols has been published in his book, Journeys of the Soul. This book's description reads:  " Ross Nichols was one of the key figures in the revival of interest in Druidry and Celtic Spirituality in modern times. The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, which he founded, is now the largest Druid group in the world. Journeys of the Soul vividly describes Nichols’ journey through life in the first complete biography of this enigmatic and influential Druid Chief, allowing us an intimate and controversial glimpse into the life and mind of one of the founding figures of the modern Pagan movement." My contribution is an extract from my novel Tamsin , which offers a  description of Lily's meeting with Ross Nichols.  This describes a factual event, and Lily's character is loosely based on a friend of mine whose true ident

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Interesting footage, including contributions from Zecharia Sitchin.

"It is with great sadness we announce that Laurence Gardner passed away on the 12 August 2010, after a prolonged illness. "Laurence Gardner is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Distinguished as the Chevalier de St. Germain, he is a constitutional historian, a Knight Templar of St Anthony, and is Presidential Attaché to the European Council of Princes. Based in England, he is author of The Times and Sunday Times bestseller, Bloodline of the Holy Grail .  "Laurence Gardner's (other) books include Realm of the Ring Lords ,  Genesis of the Grail Kings ,  Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark ,  The Magdalene Legacy , and  The Shadow of Solomon ." Source:  http://graal.co.uk/ It was probably around six years ago that I first encountered Laurence Gardner's writings, after my friend Jon had been enthusing about Gardner's very different version of both Biblical and European history.  So I read one of his books, Genesis of the Grail Kings , and

“The first truth about awareness… is that the world out there is not really as we think it is. We think it is a world of objects and it is not… It’s not as solid and real as our perception has led us to believe, but it isn’t a mirage either. The world is not an illusion, as it has been said to be; it’s real on the one hand, and unreal on the other… We perceive. But what we perceive is not a fact…, because we learn what to perceive.” - Don Juan, from The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda. “T” ( Thomas Joseph Walton AKA West Cheshire Lad) used to talk about this subject at great length. He would describe the biological function of the human eye, and how it receives light through the iris which then hits the retina, and from there light is translated by the human brain into what we perceive as being exterior to that brain (and ourselves.) “T” would go on to say how quantum physics has long-since demonstrated that our perception of objects around us is flawed, in that every thing

An interesting comparison between British life forty years ago and now:- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/1970-vs-2010-40-years-when-we-got-older-richer-and-fatter-2017240.html The key to change... is to let go of fear. - Rosanne Cash This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things. - Giordano Bruno

"An academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works of Plato. Jay Kennedy, a historian and philosopher of science, described his findings as 'like opening a tomb and discovering new works by Plato.' Plato is revealed to be a Pythagorean who understood the basic structure of the universe to be mathematical, anticipating the scientific revolution of Galileo and Newton by 2,000 years." Read the rest:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/29/plato-mathematical-musical-code

“The more we have the courage to walk new paths the more we must remain rooted in our own tradition, open to others who let us know that we are not alone and permit us to acquire a wider vision of reality.” - Raimon Panikkar . Bright sunlight filtered through the curly leaves of the contorted hazel tree to cast green-gold dapples over the Grove. I’d been meditating for a while, trying to fend off the hen which kept pecking at the beads on my sandals. And the dog whose nose was edging ever-closer to my cup of tea. Ah, blessed solitude. No wonder the Buddha didn’t have a menagerie with him beneath the Bodhi tree. Or maybe he did, hmm? My fluffy and feathered buddies follow me around the house and garden, constant companions who demand to join in with everything. They tread the same ground beneath the same sky as me, but who really knows how a chicken, cat or dog views the world? How do human lives seem to them - magical, perhaps? Godlike? Bewildering? Largely irrelevant so long as

asato mā sadgamaya tamaso mā jyotirgamaya mṛtyor mā amṛtaṁ gamaya From the unreal lead me to the real, From darkness lead me to light, From death lead me to immortality. - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Have you ever stopped to wonder just how much of reality you simply don't notice? Gurdjieff used to talk about "buffers", and how people block out reality in accordance with their own mindset. He termed this semi-aware state "sleep" and insisted that the vast majority of people live out their entire lives as slaves to this condition of automatic self-hypnosis. He developed what he called the Stop Exercise, which was a method of bringing each practitioner into an awareness of their own state of “sleep”. He devised all sorts of irritating, annoying and seemingly pointless tasks for people to do with the sole intention of jolting them from their unconscious habits. This wasn’t a new idea, of course. Many monastic orders and religious teachings have u

It’s strange to realise that we’re only eleven days from the summer solstice and yet spring blossom lingers on the trees here. How are you planning to spend the solstice? Do you do anything to celebrate the year’s longest day? Many people assume I’ll be heading off to Stonehenge. They’re wrong. I much prefer to visit such places when I’m the only person around, so that means out-of-season and usually in weather which deters everyone else. I have my reasons. In all truth, I’ve never once been to Stonehenge. When I was a child, my parents tried visiting it but couldn’t find it. I kept insisting they were walking in the wrong direction…. Speaking of amusing visits, much fun was had during a recent weekend break with friends. Topics for discussion were kittens, pregnancy, the whereabouts of food deliveries and the mysteries of the universe - all splendid stuff! Returning home, chaos awaited. Can’t I leave this house for a few days without mayhem erupting?!! The dogs had sulked, t

Gurdjieff 's sacred dances as portrayed in the film based on his book,  Meetings with Remarkable Men   An essay about Thomas Joseph Walton (AKA West Cheshire Lad or simply "T" ) which mentions the influence of Gurdjieff's philosophy on his own can be read here: http://hubpages.com/hub/West-Cheshire-Lad This also includes previously unshared quotes from Divine Will: The Infinite Influence of All and Everything plus some illustrations which you won't have seen elsewhere.

By West Cheshire Lad AKA Thomas Joseph Walton The Universe is in a perfect harmony of Oneness, vibrating in a perfect rhythm and harmony of timeless movement, perfect in this timeless movement, a sameness in its perfection. This sameness or Oneness is not influenced in the receptor in its Oneness or Sameness, influence occurs in the receptors according to their vibrating energy and nucleus, influenced by the Great Transmitter, all puppets that manifest in the countless diversities. Each receptor is influenced and governed by the vibrating force field from the Universal Law, the Great Transmitter. Brain intelligence has little or no say in this influence. This sense of influence is positively expressed in all creation, influencing evolution, devolution, behaviour pattern etc. It is said some artists can perceive many colours of green etc, in nature’s herbage, an influence far above others in that field; also the smells, odours and aromas are not picked up by the same people. Each r