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After a long convoluted process, I have manifested a new book. Just over a month ago, the idea to do so was not even in my head.
Some of you may be aware that 2 years ago I was invited to write an extended introduction to a projected new edition of the classic seventies anthology, Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem. It was conceived as a joint enterprise with another party. I also commissioned Yuri Leitch to create the cover art-work to my design, a Glastonbury version of the Crowley/Harris Sun tarot card that recalled the original anthology cover.
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| 1977 edition. |
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| New cover design |
Time passed and my collaborator stalled on the project. At the start of 2015 I arranged to give a presentation at the Glastonbury Symposium conference (still often known as the Crop Circle conference) on the contents of my introduction. I felt this still gave enough time to get the new edition published. By the time of the summer solstice it was obvious it wasn't going to happen. I suddenly wondered if it might be possible to expand my intro and get a small book out in time for the Symposium. My graphics man and the publisher gave me the thumbs-up leaving me about two weeks to do it.
I decided to pump-up the text with some material drawn from my other books but presented in a distinct new chronological context. The centre of gravity of the book was always going to be unique material concerning a profound UFO experience of Anthony Roberts (editor of the original anthology) and a huge wild ancient astronaut Atlantean Glastonbury tome that he was inspired to write soon afterwards. His wife Jan had given me access to the work and I was the first person outside the Roberts' household to read it in 40 years.
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| Anthony Roberts near his beloved Glastonbury Tor where he died of a heart attack in 1990. |
It was an amazing experience to initiate and complete this new project so quickly after spending two years in limbo with its original form.
Here is the back cover blurb.
The Glastonbury Zodiac and Earth Mysteries UFOlogy
is a
unique exploration of a visionary realm that helped to shape the modern
development of the mystical capital of Britain. It shows the influence of ideas
concerning Atlantis and Ancient Astronauts during the heady days of the sixties
and seventies and places them alongside ley lines and the landscape zodiac.
Includes:
remarkable
previously untold UFO experience of author Anthony Roberts and the huge
unpublished book it inspired.
Atlantis
of the Heart. From Dion Fortune to space migration.
Psychedelic
sixties UFOlogy. Flying Saucer Vision and Warminster, David Bowie’s Free
Festival.
Andrew
Collins journey from Glastonbury to a Giza cave discovery and the Morphian
mystery.
Complete
survey of work of American visionary Robert Coon relating to the Glastonbury
Zodiac, global chakra sites, the Omega Point, and the 1987 Mesoamerican
calendar events.
The
Contact conundrum, aliens and entities, Secret Chiefs and beams of light,
Fairies and Ultraterrestrials, Dark Gods, and Virgin Mary apparitions.
UFOlogical theorists and eccentrics:
John
Foster Forbes, Meade Layne , Desmond Leslie, George Adamski, Trevor James
Constable, Brinsley le Poer Trench, Tony Wedd, Jacques Vallee, John Keel,
Elizabeth Van Buren.
The Glastonbury Temple of the Stars:
Katharine
Maltwood, Mary Caine, Oliver Reiser: from Blavatsky to Arthur’s Round
Table, wandering Sumerians, Atlanteans and aliens, the head of Christ, and the
morphogenetic field pattern for the embryogenesis of the World Sensorium!
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of
truth.’
William Blake.
