Midsummer Glastonbury Sun

Here is a Glastonbury version of the Thoth tarot Sun card. It has been painted by Yuri Leitch to my design, substituting Glastonbury Tor for the hill in the original and the signs of the alleged landscape zodiac for the usual depictions.

The image is intended to form the core of the cover for a new version of the classic seventies anthology, Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, featuring an extensive introduction from me dealing with Earth Mysteries Ufology.

It should hopefully surface by the end of 2013.

This projected cover is an echo and upgrade from the original version.

It has been a great pleasure to initiate and fulfill the dynamic of the creation of this image with Yuri and the writing of my intro between Beltaine and the Solstice.

Dion Fortune and the Magical Battle of Britain Glastonbury lecture

I am giving a presentation for the Wessex Research Group on the 1940 Glastonbury visualisations and their relevance to the present day, including details of my own experiences. Material is taken from my ongoing writing project Dion Fortune and the Aeon of Michael.

Tuesday May 14th.  7:30pm.  £5.00

Venue:  Avalon Constitutional Club, 50 High St, Glastonbury.

Circle of Perpetual Choirs Free Glastonbury lecture

Saturday March 2nd. Tor Sports and Leisure Centre, Street Road, Glastonbury, BA6 9EF

15:00 -16:00

Part of a weekend Glastonbury Mystic & Earth Spirit Fayre event that includes other free presentations.

According to Welsh Triads, Glastonbury was one of a group of sites where sacred chant was once continually intoned. Earth Mysteries visionary John Michell intuited a geometric relationship between the locations and went on to discuss a circle of perpetual choirs centred round White Leaved Oak in the Malvern Hills. I will discuss this idea in the full knowledge that it is historically very dubious but nonetheless possesses great power to move and inspire.

The material in this presentation will be included in my next book, Aquarian Phoenix. The above illustration by Yuri Leitch is just one example of the fine artwork that it will feature. 

Signs and Secrets of the Glastonbury Zodiac

It is my great pleasure to announce an imminent new book from Avalonian Aeon Publications.

Signs & Secrets of the Glastonbury Zodiac is an anthology featuring work from myself, Glastonbury artist Yuri Leitch (responsible for my book covers), and a number of other talented, inspired people, mainly local to the area. Bonuses include a piece by noted maverick researcher Hank Harrison, and a previously unpublished piece by the woman that started it all, Katharine Maltwood (made possible by researcher Anthony Thorley).

This post is just a teaser. Plenty more details to follow, along with the book itself, probably no later than March.

After a hermetically sealed 2012, with very little activity on my websites, expect plenty in 2013. My own Aquarian Phoenix is well on the way.

Aquarian Phoenix

I am currently engaged in writing Aquarian Phoenix, the follow-up companion volume to Avalonian Aeon. It is part of my creative process to create the covers for my books before they are finished in order to get a feeling that they are already essentially complete in hyperspace and I just have to download them into 3D manifestation. It is a profound luxury to be able to engage the services of Glastonbury-based artist Yuri Leitch to execute my designs.

The book will include a dizzying wide spectrum of esoteric subject matter including the background behind the writing of a number of books by historical mysteries researcher Andrew Collins. His ground-breaking work on the fallen angels emerged from visionary experiences including material concerning the Nephilim in Britain (and I don’t mean the band), Millenial
fever, crop circles, the Giza plateau and the search for the Hall of Records, Quetzalcoatl and the Harmonic Convergence, X Files conspiracism and UFOlogy, Shambhala, Atlantis, Glastonbury and its alleged terrestrial zodiac, the Circle of Perpetual Choirs, the theme of the artist as magician, and a whole bunch more of contentious topics are placed in a meta-perspective through comparative research and the stories of my personal experiences.

The writing process is an intense one. This is why my blog posts here have been few in number so far. Expect to see manifestation this summer. Following that a lot more will be going on here.

In the meantime, I do have some more radio interviews lined up that I will publicise here as they happen.

Interview on Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour

I have recently spoken at some length on a variety of esoteric topics on Christopher Knowles Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour.

Listen to it here.

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2012/03/secret-sun-radio-mystery-hour-paul.html

The main topic is the effect of landscape on consciousness but Robert Graves, John Cowper Powys, Crowley, Andrew Collins, and Psychic Questing all get covered and plenty more besides.

Glastonbury 2012: Creation Myths and Eternal Return.

My public 2012 programme commences with a lecture for the Glastonbury Pilgrim Reception Centre on Tuesday Jan 10th. £5.00 (includes refreshments).

At the end of a global time cycle, renewal is indicated. Many traditional cultures retold and acted out their creation myths during New Year festivities. I will look at Glastonbury and 2012 from the perspective of the great theorist of comparative religion, Mircea Eliade.

This presentation will not feature lizard aliens, the Illuminati, pole shifts, or any channeling from dolphins.

Venue: Avalon Room, Isle of Avalon Foundation, 2-4 High St, Glastonbury, BA6 9DU

Programme:

7.00pm. Doors open

7.30pm. Welcome, introduction and lighting of the Glastonbury Candle

7.40pm. Speaker of the evening

9.00pm.Social and refreshments

9.30pm. Doors close