Spiritual Sites Tour of England
Every year the G.I.C. organizer has the unenviable task of choosing the selected highlights of their country to show our International delegates in a short tour during the conference. Dispite the many wondrous features of the UK -from London to Edinburgh - there has never been any doubt in our mind that some of the most beautiful aspects of our country relate to its spiritual traditions - the Isle of Avalon at Glastonbury Tor - reputed to be the geographic home of King Arthur - Stonehenge and the even more impressive Avebury stone circles.
Spiritual Sites Tour 2008 - Journeying in the Mystical Isle
GRAIL JOURNEY THROUGH MYSTICAL MAGICAL MID WALES
Route: From Hay-on-Wye to Builth Wells, stopping at Cilmery to visit monument to Llywelyn, our last Welsh Prince, following on we take the mountain road through Abergwesyn to Tregaron. This is the ancient drover's road through some of the wildest and most beautiful heart of Wales.
Our trip then takes us to Tregaron, a visit to the solar plexus chakra, Tregaron Bog and then onto Tregaron itself. Here we will find Rhiannon's gold centre, cafe and art gallery for Celtic crafts and Celtic jewellery, some made with rare Welsh gold.
Continuing onto Strata Florida we find the heart chakra. Ruins of the Cistercian monastery with initiation chamber used by the Druids. Then to Blaenycwm, throat chakra, following the River Ystwyth through the wild Welsh mountains, and going to Elan village via the Welsh Lake District (beautiful!), calling in at the visitor centre for refreshments.
(Additional evening trips could include Arthur's Stone, Nr Hay. Abbey Dore: Cistercian Monastery with church intact (very rare) in the Golden Valley...Valley of the River Dore. Kilpeck Church: the only one of it's kind in Britain)
Note to GIC Participants: There is an additional cost to book on the Spiritual Sites Tour in July, and places will be limited. Please enquire for more details, or if you wish to reserve a place. There are more photos and updates on this tour still to come…
‘The Grail Journey Through Wales’ by Megan Wingfield
We
are delighted to announce that in July 2008, Megan Wingfield, writer of
‘The Grail Journey Through Wales’, will be joining us at GIC to
guide participants to selected sights along ‘The Pathway of the Beloved’.
On the Spiritual Sites Tour, she will share her views on the sacred
sights and show how to connect with the energy at these special places.
An Extract from the book
“This
island of Britain is the sacred isle, the mystic isle of the ancients;
there are many sacred places yet to be discovered. It is of vital importance
to the whole planet that these places are rediscovered and honoured, so
that they may be rebirthed into the present age. All of us can do this.
We can all go on a pilgrimage to be ‘tuned’ in to the vibrations of these
places; the choice is yours! You can look for a stone circle or a standing
stone on your local map and visit them; there are so many of these sites.
You may want to visit the ancient Ridgeway, the Uffington White Horse,
Avebury, the Rollright Stones or Stonehenge.
These are places where the ghosts of communities linger on in the ether, taking eternal possession of the landscape, giving a purpose to modern pilgrims. You might like to visit some old churches around you, remembering that they were built on ancient sacred sites. You might want to go on a Celtic pilgrimage to Brittany, Wales, Scotland or Ireland. You may want to create a sacred place in your own garden.
All you need is a sense of respect, and to ask the guardian for permission to enter, remembering that it is a holy place. You may honour it in whatever way feels right to you: singing, dancing, saying prayers or leaving biodegradable gifts for the elementals. You may both give and receive healing. Be aware that if you are visiting an Earth chakra, it will affect your own corresponding chakra also, so do take care to allow for this. If you can do this, you will be performing a service to this sacred land. Bless the Earth and ask for a blessing on yourselves also.”
From The Grail Journey Through Wales © 2007 by Megan Wingfield, published by Athena Press.
Megan Wingfield is a native of mid Wales and has moved house many times up and down the Welsh border from Ross-on-Wye in the South to Prestatyn in the North. She has a son and daughter, and now lives with her husband in North Powys. A teacher who has trained in both healing and colour therapy, Megan considers herself primarily to be an artist. It was through painting that she found herself to posses the ability to tune in to spiritual realms. Her first book, Light is the Rainbow Edge came from pictures received in meditation and the spiritual guidance which accompanied them. It is a ‘thought for the day’ book, useful for divination. Megan’s attunement gives her the ability to ‘read’ the energy from sacred sites, translate it into pictures and take dictation from spiritual beings. This has led her and her friends and family on an odyssey which was both a physical pathway and a Grail journey. This is ongoing and her latest book, The Grail Journey Through Wales, is her discovery of a pathway of the Beloved, Merlin’s Way, and energy line stretching from the Scilly Isles though Wales to Whitby, Yorkshire.
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