Glastonbury

We’re back! And we still have some photos to post, and stories to share. We’ll start with some photos. Glastonbury first. After we visited Mike and Sue we went to Bristol and Bath. Both very cool towns, with loads of green, eco things to do. But then. Then we took the bus (loaded with elderly day trippers) to Glastonbury. Were it not for the fact that we had to stand up for more than an hour, and for the terribly smelly corpulent lady sitting too close to us, it would have been a beautiful tour through English country side.

I won’t say too much about Glastonbury, except for the fact that is was the absolute lowlight of our trip. Partly due to the shabby B&B we managed to book, but for the largest part due to the ‘look-at-me-being-spiritual’ people walking around. We enjoyed (windy) Glastonbury Tor (a hill believed to once have been the Island of Avalon) and Chalice Well gardens, but we really needed quite some time to loose our chagrin and to start see the humour of all those people taking themselves and their spiritual views on life way too seriously. The biggest fun of all was the Goddess Conference, which was held in Glastonbury when we visited, attracting a highly dubious crowd of (mostly) women in long, red and frivolous costumes (probably all aspiring to become a high priestess in the Goddess Temple of Avalon). Please have a look at the website, and the conference program to grasp a bit of our hilarious laughter during dinner. Anyway, we took (almost) the first bus out of Glastonbury the next day, and wouldn’t recommend a visit.

Some photos:

Typical bookstore in Glastonbury. Growing needs, really.

Chalice well, lots of iron.

Dees with an angel on her shoulder (very Glastonbury-esque), in Chalice Well Garden.

Windy Glastonbury Tor.

The Goddess Conference, right across the street from our B&B.

Goddess in red.

More Goddesses in red. With flowers in their hair (common fashion in Goddess-world).

Goddess in purple.

Multicoloured God. For an uncensored view on his hairy buttocks, zoom in on the hole in his pants.

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Booking

Hey Karin,

That was a nice, bit chaotic, telephoneconversation we just had (86 minutes and 24 seconds)!!  Yesss, the traintickets are on their way… the 24th of july our cropcirclehunt is going to start!   So now we can contact Wiltshiretours, for a nice daytrip. I also found this very nice story about Avebury Circle (in dutch) on a very spiritual oriented website about powerspots. Please share your skeptic thoughts about this one…

see you next week,

Dees

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Galactic communication?

Hey Karin,

How are you two doing… still under a blanket on the couch?

This afternoon I found some time to read your posts and the ‘order of time’ website you were writing about. Pretty interesting and this time-stuff is indeed related to what I teach in my ‘Tzolkin-courses’. For me the Tzolkin (or Mayan-calender although it is not THE mayan-calender, there is no such thing as THE mayan-calender) is about recollecting our connection with the galaxy… I realize this might sound a bit hocus pocus to you… but living with this calender synchronizes us with our spiritual path and gives us a deeper understanding of what it is to be a ‘galactic human’ on earth. So, I guess my perspective on galactic time is even a bit more elaborate then what I read on this website. 

Although I am very into uncommon ideas about time(perception), natural time-stuff, lunar, solar and galactic calenders I am not sure the only way to interpret cropcircles is to see them as an expression of alien or galactic beings (don’t forget we are also living in this galaxy and therefore are galactic beings as well) searching for contact and waiting for an answer. In my opinion galactic communication takes place at a different level and those wanting to contact us find ways, they are not waiting for a stamp in the grain. Anyway, If we are talking about this kind of subjects we have to go beyond the scope of our normal human mind… we have to think out of the box!

So, I can appreciate most things written on this site and in this article… And I’m sure the time-management/calenders we use reflect our mindset and our way of managing this planet as a collective but I find the cropcircletheory they propose a bit hollywood-like… (een beetje erbij gehaald, zou ik zeggen).

Well, are we getting any wiser on this cropcircle-stuff? I feel the need to visit one (not the best timing now) to experience for  myself. Everything I have read about the believerside of this subject is the same beautiful inspiring story, all echos from each other.

What to do? Let’s go plan our trip!  When do we have a meeting?

Hope you and Eise soon will be better (Let me know what you think about a distant healingsession, I know somebody…)

Love, Dees

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Crop circle denial

Yo Dees!

Wow. I’m flabbergasted. I stumbled upon this website which is a “participation platform for alternative time consciousness”. It’s called The Order of Time, do you know it? They posted an article on Crop Circles and the Key to the World Order. This article is full of conspiracy theory views on man-made crop circles (their reaction to the circlemakers website: “Apparently this is an action of legally covering it up”) and the author seems convinced of the fact that crop circles are made by an intelligence that tries to communicate with us (“The conclusion is that some intelligence is writing messages in symbol circle code to us on the face of mother earth and we are baffled.”).

The article is mostly about what the intelligence is trying to communicate with us and what we should answer them (“we, from our own selfrespect of conscious control, owe them an answer.”). The author finally comes to the conclusion (I could not really follow the analysis and interpretation) that the meaning of the crop circles is related to time (“From the above as well as from many other religious, philosophical and political options we have to depart from a threefold division of time representing the relationship of our earthly management of time and organic life.”). So Dees, maybe you can connect this to Maya calendars!!

The author ends with designing an answer we could give to the genuine crop circle makers, which is supposed to represent our own complexity of time consciousness. I couldn’t really understand how the explanation of crop circles resulted in this design, maybe you can make something out of it….

I really wonder what you think of this article. You can probably guess my opion…

Cheers, Karin

 

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Exact sciences & spirituality

Hi Dees,

I am in Bloemendaal on November 22nd… Missing an opportunity to hear mrs. Ossebaard live! I did find another event we should definitely go to (and which is much closer as well), a Studium Generale discussion night about exact sciences and spirituality. What do you think?

Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers, Karin

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Let’s go visit this event!

Hi Karin,

Good to hear from you. Paris was nice, no cropcircles overthere, but I did see the mysterious space invaders we saw a few years ago!

please look at this site www.2012ofnu.nl  it’s about an event in Emmen, think I already mentioned it. I really would like to go there!  Not only because Janet Ossebaard is giving a lecture, also Peter Toonen (I read most of his books) and some other interesting people will be there. A trip to Wiltshire will cost less time… but this event might do some good to the spiritual side of our hunt 🙂

Greetz,

Dees

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Commonsense spirituality

Bonjour Karin,

You did a great job there during your lunchbreak… wauw, I should implement this kind of lunchbreaks in my life too! 

I just read the articles from skepp and skepsis and must say that I really liked the down-to-earth approach and humorous style… and ofcourse their arguments are very straight forward. At this moment I have serious doubts about the extraterrestrial origins of crop circles. Not much left of the croppie I could have been…  My common sense is catching up with my spiritual notion here, or maybe I should opt for a ‘commonsense spirituality’, that sound better to me.

Still I find it hard to believe that these highly complex and beautiful crop circles are made by people!

The teamwork and creativity that is needed and also the satisfaction after succeeding must generate a high vibrational energy, or flow, that makes the creation of a cropcircle a spiritual exercise in it self. So Karin, that would be a nice spiritual exercise for you (while I am doing my yogapractice in another circle) 🙂

What comes clear to me is that we are lightbeings ourselves… there might be no higher intelligence who will give us hidden messages in the crop to reach enlightment or something like that. We ourselves ARE capable of doing things that we think of as extraordinary, unique or cosmic. At last we live on this earth as a part of this galaxy, as a part of this universe, as unique beings. And the wisdom we need is inside of everyone of us, just open up!

the cropcircle makers (whatever species they are) give us a great example of something extraordinary we can achieve, they inspire… at least they inspire us to have this nice research en discussion!

Yess, back to business. I was at the library and found the book of Janet Ossebaard and some other. Started to read during my traintrip to Breda this wednesday but fell asleep, not much of a good job here…  I will get back to you on that later. For now there’s one question which is bothering me, about the ‘real’ and ‘fake’ circles (in my opnion all of them are real because they are laying there), when most of them are handmade, why do we not know the exact amount that is made by humans? That could be verifyed, don’t you think?

Have a nice stay in Madrid! Talk to you soon!

Dees

Ps. Our friend Bauke thought there might be a tradition of circlemaking in certain families… isn’t that a nice idea?

 

 

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