5 August 2010

Learning the Kabbalah

So its been a long time since my last post and things have been pretty hectic between trying to meet work commitments and spending what little time I had left with my other half.

This evening while sitting at my desk bored out of my mind I finally decided to attempt to study the Kabbalah. Something I have taken interest in for a long time but never made the commitment to study. Well today I have decided to make that commitment!

After spending several hours looking for some kind of community in the kent area that offers the study of Kabbalah and finding nothing! I stumbled across this site.
http://www.ukabbalah.com

This is an online university dedicated to the teaching of Kabbalah and has a wide range of online lecture material. So i coughed up the $18 that it costs to join and will dip in and see what its like. I will begin to use this blog as more of a reflection tool after studying so I can look back upon this in some time and trace the origins :)
5 March 2010

Re-Cap of Glastonbury Part Two

The next part I will cover both the wells that we visited on our trip. The Chalice Well and The White Spring. It was truly a strange experience to say the least. Bearing in mind both of these sites sit on the opposite side of the same road to each other, the different energy they both give off is astounding.

The Chalice Well

The only way I can describe the energy of this place would be to compare it to a place where dedicated meditation occurs. The level of tranquillity that flows within these gardens just has to be experienced personally before you can appreciate it to its full.
You could really just go to those gardens and be there for hours on end! I can say for sure I will miss this place, throughout my travels I have never come to such a garden that offers so much peace. To me it felt like the chalice well had its own bubble of energy. Bearing in mind this garden is situated right next to a main road and is elevated as its on the same hill the Tor is located. However you could not hear one car from within.

The garden has been split into several smaller area's and there is no problem finding your own private place to spend some time reflecting without being disturbed. There was also a place to bathe within the water as well as drink it. I gave the water a try there and the purity of it was unbelievable!

I can only highly recommend this place to people, I would even go as far to say it may help people with conditions such as depression. It has that kind of reassuring affect on you. I know my words will not do the chalice well gardens justice so go see for yourself :)

The White Spring

The contrast of this particular place compared to the chalice was almost an exact opposite. Me and my partner were told this place was the masculine spring, compared to the chalice which was feminine.
It does not look like much from the outside just an old rag stone cube like building. But once you step over the threshold and enter the dark room that holds the well. You get hit for six! When I entered I was immediately drawn to the huge well in the middle of the room, the energy that came from within was shocking. A real raw feeling to it that just made me lost for words. Despite the temperature during our visit the place felt warm and the water more so.

It was also interesting to see that the water was almost allowed to just flow over the top of the well and onto the floor. If you are brave enough they do let you enter the well itself, providing you do not mind strangers walking by! But the place is very very dark only lit by a few candle's dotted around the place. As we walked around we noticed a few smaller shrine's in the building where people were sat making offerings. The thing that caught me and my partner was the bigger shrine which you can see in the picture above. At the end of the little walkway there was a painting of what we believe was bridgid. Again this knocked both of us for six it is clear this shrine is highly used and I felt a lot of healing was undertaken there as well as in the well.

It was amusing how it worked out we visited the chalice well first....Maybe we should of done it the other way round so we had the ideal place to calm down after our visit to the white spring! Again I cannot suggest enough that you visit this place, be aware though that it does not have any set opening hours as it is run by volunteers. Me and my partner only managed to visit the place once over our 4 days and believe me we did try to get another visit :)
27 February 2010

Re-Cap of Glastonbury Part One

As I promised myself a while ago, I will at least partially document my recent trip to Glastonbury and put across a very small description of the places we visited. For the most I hope the people that read this really do go and take the time to visit this place. For my descriptions will really not do the atmosphere of Glastonbury the justice it truly deserves.

Over the last few weeks we have attempted to visit Glastonbury and originally we planned a weekend. However we found that as regular as clock work, the Wednesday before we were due to go it snowed....Now for this to happen once, fair enough! Weather does sometimes cause havoc especially in the UK and we had to put our trip back. Thanks to a very understanding host they even accommodated us changing our reservation dates at the last minute.

We attempted to go three times and on every occasion the snow fell on the Wednesday, with the first two times stopping us from going. The third time it happened we were so determined to go we did not let it stop us!
Below you can see how much we had, this was taken outside my office.

As you can see it was enough to be a nuisance! Still we put on our brave faces and embarked anyway! Thankfully as soon as we left Kent we also parted company with that aggravating snow!

Inwardly I was very relieved at that point...I knew my lady needed this break and the whole not being able to go was starting to grate on my concious.
After a few hours on the road we decided to stop and have a coffee, I think this was the moment when we both recognised that we were actually going for real this time!


Once we were back on the road and almost 3/4 of the way there I realised we were actually going past stone henge en route to our destination & popped the question to my partner if she had ever been. I was a little surprised to hear that so far she had not had the chance. So I leaped at the opportunity to take her there for a visit.

 For me personally this was my fourth visit to the stones & every time I leave with a strange feeling of disappointment. Something deep down always sings that they were meant for so much more than to just be a tourist attraction.
When you walk around them (as you are not allowed to get up close and personal any more due to restrictions.) you can feel an unusual emptiness around the place that just feels...well alien to what it should be.

I am sure that if this sacred site was treated with the respect the druids of old gave to these stones the energy would soon come flowing back again...But for now I feel it sits in the shadow of its former self beckoning for its true purpose to be rediscovered once again.....

To be continued...
18 February 2010

Back home.

So I am finally back home from my little trip.
To say I am having withdrawal symptoms from that wonderful place is an understatement. I will be updating my blog over the next few days to cover where we went and what we found. I think I may try and undertake a bit more customisation on the layout of this blog as well....At the minute I cannot get it right *arg*

For now I must try and sleep and begin the horrible grind of work....
15 February 2010

Community Spirit

So here we are in glastonbury...

Have a awesome time, words cannot really describe the level of community spirit here. People seem so open hearted and genuine! Strangers will greet you and talk to you like they have known you for years. I will update my blog with a lot more detail when I get back, as there is so much to write about....However I want to spend as much time around this lovely place & people before I get sucked back into the routine.
12 February 2010

insomnia

So it's the big day tomorrow....but right now I cannot sleep! This has been happening over the last few weeks....I go to bed tired, eyes heavy. Yet soon as my head hits the pillow I wake up...something trying to tell me something?

Really not sure...while laying here pondering I have cone up with a random idea I might try...once a month I am thinking of offering one act of kindness a month to anyone on my facebook. It could be anything. From something they need help with to even a cheeky takeaway!

It sounds odd right? But with all the bad stuff these days I think the world could do with a reminder that some people just want to help...

Or maybe it's just being mad! Whatever it is I am sure to find out!

Location:In bed

Glastonbury...

It's taken two attempts to try and get down to Glastonbury with my partner. I have been meaning to take her down there but each time so far it has snowed on the Wednesday before stopping us from going....

Yet again it has snowed! but this time we are both determined to make it down!
I will be updating this blog with our adventures over the next coming week or so and hopefully with a lot of tales to tell as well :)