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Well (ha!
) got my photos and got me some orbs. I used a bog-standard kodak disposable camera; and as you can see from the first pic (orb above path) the photos started quite clear and bright.
but the photos quickly start to get grey and grainy; here is a pic of some of the stones with names scratched upon them,
and of many ribbons hung to trees,
But here are the orbs! by now the camera had decided that it should be dark (and it wasnt it was actually quite bright and sunny) At first I thought that this could be rain drobs but it wasnt raining and drops should be pear shaped not round. It could be spray from the waterfall but there was none as I sat here for over an hour drawing and my paper remained completely dry… also, you can see a definite ‘S’ shaped spiral formed by the orbs and neither rain nor spray can do that can it? It was at this location that I felt a strong feminine Elen/Bride type goddess presence.
NOTE; If any of these pictures dont come up for you it’ll be because of my narrow bandwidth on my homepage, so come back again later
Lol!
Well there’s a can of worms opened! Over 15 questions in just Michael’s last paragraph!
I”m just passing by (but a great call, this topic for a thread) I’ll post on it soon.
Hey Gordon
Thanks for that link about Nechtan as an Irish god. Connected with a sacred Well is really interesting. This now links with that old ‘oracle head’ topic that keeps popping it’s head up
From previous research into St Cleer (St Nectan’s brother) Cleer was beheaded and miraculously carried his decapitated head to his Holy Well.
I was totally gob-smacked to learn that Nectan himself, too, was decapitated and carried his head to his Holy Well! (St. Cleers ‘head’ Holy Well is in Normandy and St Nectan’s is at Hartland Stoke, Devon) So having the god Nectan equated to a Well of Wisdom is just fascinating… this is paralleling Vixens Well research of Binsey too; – oracle heads and Holy Wells.
Simon, inspired by that bbc download I have started a new thread just for debating ‘Fairies’
Otherworld/Underworld; – a lot of authors in the 1900′s, writing of Celtic themes, would often describe the Celtic otherworld as an ‘underworld’ and then go on to describe it as some sort of Celtic Hades.
I really dont like this point of view, and a lot of Celtic material doesnt view the otherworld as a ‘Hades’, dark and shady… rather it is described as the land of Eternal Youth, or the Golden Realm etc; so rather than seeing things as light and dark, heaven and hell, I see Celtic ‘other’ realms as parallel universe type things… So I now use the term ‘Other’ as a general title for any realm ‘other’ than our own, this seems to me the most open-minded way of viewing things, rather than describe Celtica in a Classical (Hades/Hell) type way
…So to me the Duat, Hades, Valhalla, Land of the Eternal sun, heaven etc, are all ‘other’ than our realm, and they all have their own personalities, some dark some golden.
To get to Rocky Valley I drove from Tintagel to Bossiney then carried on north up that road. About 2 miles from Tintagel is a layby on the left saying ‘Park here for waterfall’. I did that then followed the path past St. Piran’s Well down to Rocky Valley, then walked up the valley following the stream for 15mins. Got to the top where St. Nectans hermit cell was (now a gatehouse and tea-room, paid my 2.50 entry fee then walked down to the Kieve. at the foot of the waterfall a whole load of ribbons and offerings hang from branches, and people have scratched their names onto stones and left them there… so take something to hang on a branch as an offering or take something sharp so that you can scratch your name onto a stone.
You could have a dream Encyclopedia, thereby you are not looking for feedback just sticking the dream into an archive
Bumped into a chap in town today. Got talking about St. Nectan’s Glen. He told me quite enthusiastically that he has photos of ‘faries’ from there. orbs and balls of light etc. He has a friend who has a photo that if you look closely is convinced that you can see a Gnome looking back at you… I am now hoping that when my photos are developed that there maybe an anomaly or two.
This was my own feeling at the Glen, that of a fey female energy, Elen, Bride, White Goddess, Titania type feeling; very fae and otherworld-ish… of course this doesnt feel connected to St Nectan, but then again, the ‘Vale of Neath’ (Nudd) is said to be the last resting place of the Fairies in Wales so maybe Nectan/Neath has Fairy affinities?
FACE IN THE ROCK; This wasnt deliberate but is interesting, I took photos which will be developed by Friday so they’ll confirm whether the face is there or whether I did it subconsciously… but I was quite fussy with the circumference of the hole so am expecting my drawing to be pretty close to actuality.
AS A BOWL; This idea really appealled to me. The whole waterfall is 60ft high. Comes crashing down into the ‘kieve’ (the waterfall is alternatively called ‘St. Nectan’s Kieve’) ‘Kieve’ is Cornish for ‘Basin’… so quite literally is a ‘Bowl’… time has worn a hole in the side of the bowl and that is the enigmatic opening Yoni that is so astounding a landmark.
Being so close to Tintagel with all it’s Arthurianisms, having a natural bowl/cauldron in the landscape makes it a fascinating Grail… it even had a hermit cell at the top, makes one think of Questing Knights seeking clues, at the very least.AS A PORTAL; this is very appealling too, and yes, if you are prepared to get soaked I think it would be possible to get through the hole or at least peek through; the hole begins about 8ft above ground level (but you’d also be standing in 3 to 4ft of water making the whole thing about 11ft high… the bowl inside is said to be between 15 and 20ft deep.
I spoke to Andy C recently. Told him that St. Nectan is the Cornish varient of the saints name, in latin he is Nathanus but curiously in Welsh he is Nudd (‘dd’ is pronouced ‘th’, read Nudd as ‘Neath’) Andy then connected this to the Temple of Nudd/Nodens at Lydney on the River Severn (I myself had connected him to Glastonbury, our local deity being ‘Gwyn ap Nudd’, and to the ‘Vale of Neath’ in Wales.
As Bridget is both Christian saint and ancient goddess, could Nudd/Nectan be both saint and god? With Lydney on the Severn, the River Neath in Wales and this astounding waterfall in Cornwall… this old river god seems quite fascinating. Andy see’s Nodens at Lydney as representing both the Abyss and the great river (Milky Way) which I go along with, but Nudd is also a God of healing… the great river abyss and the crashing water into the ‘basin’ really does seem to suggest entrance into an other world
Back to the opening Yoni and the desire to enter. It reminds me of a local tradition to a place called Babcary which is seen as a mother earth womb/vagina, that has a rather fun Somerset saying to it, and this could apply to the hole at St Nectan’s Glen… “Easy to get into, hard to get out of!” Penetration is easy, you just slip in but being born (coming back out of) isnt easy and requires quite a ‘push’!Fascinating isnt it.
So much of our thought processing is restricted into the barriers of our language and alphabet sytems… as this is how we have become used to communicating. But if you could go back in time, to source, before alphabets were constructed; how would our minds evaluate ‘input’… the spirals I saw were probably the same spirals percieved by our neolithic ancestors; primordeal, pre-alphabet data.
how does the mind percieve and interpret other realities (outer, inner or parallel?) Some kind of mind altering is necessary or rather a ‘letting go’ of ‘normal reality’. with DMT, alchahol, mushrooms, rituals or by being in a cave at midnight on the cornish coast! lol
Michael, I know this,
Quote:I woke at 1am to find everything in the room glowing with different colours, which quickly wore off, but the atmosphere felt like it was buzzing, alive, my brain felt like it was being cooked, keeping me awake for hours.I usually experience similar, with flashing pin pricks of light around me (rather than Simon’s shards) it usually follows waking up after a vivid dream… or occaisionally I can experience this, ‘awake’ at some sacred sites.
Lol, never heard of Philp K Dick before, entertaining read…
… sounds like many souls walking in and around Glastonbury; full of deep insight one moment, dribbling and singing the next!
I’m quite fascinated by the spirit of Elijah, or indeed any other spirit. I spoke elsewhere of people having two selves, the ‘body’ self and the reincarnating ‘soul’ self. The story of Philp K Dick adds numerous ‘other’ selves that take over or enter into the ‘body’ self for any given moment of time… of course this is practiced in trance mediumship, when the medium becomes a vehicle to spirit.
How much control do we have over our bodies? Can we be our selves always or can any spirit like Elijah, walk in and out of us, whether we welcome it or not… as queried elsewhere too, can undesirable forces do this too? ie possession…
… is it possession if it’s unpleasant and ‘divine spirit’ ‘holy ghost’ if it’s a nice experience?….. how much of it all is ‘YOU’ or are we mere vehicles for the spirit realm to play with?
Binary is a cool idea Perceval, why not create a thread and give a short explanation of it.
I myself believe that we are all working with two sets of past-lives,
1; the first set is your dna memory, that resides in your body, with which you are linked to all your great great great grandparents etc, back to the source… and all of that can be tapped into.
2; you also have your soul memories of different incarnations into all sorts or racial, cultural, dna packages, throughout the ages (one good reason why racism is so stuipid; as we are all of us, of many races).
I believe that philosophies of higher and lower self are bound up in this. I dont percieve higher as better or lower as worse, but simply, one self is body (dna) the other self is soul.
Cheers Simon, its all very interesting.
The decapitated head does seem to be a universal icon that apears in most cultures. Andy C. I know, in his new book (out later in the year) speaks quite a bit about Orpheous’ head, as another archetype.
Yet all the similar, different cultures focus on different aspects. In Gawain and the Green Knight, the whole tit for tat beheading thing is a test of Gawains integrity… I’m not aware that it infers to any ‘elixir of life’… then again, many will see the ‘Green Knight’ as the Green Man, the power of nature and fertility; so ‘life itself’ in many ways.
stranger and stranger… someone should create a list of all the different oracle heads around the globe.
p.s. Have added info of sanskrit/vedic ‘head’ to encyclopedia
http://www.psychicquesting.com/modules. … lar%20Head
Your great-uncle’s story sounds fascinating, maybe you could put a paragraph or two about his work into the questing encyclopedia
How was your trip to France?
It sounds interesting. Perhaps you could give more info; – what is the duration of the footage, 15 mins or over an hour? What sort of topics are discussed ( you could describe without giving too much away)
I suggest you wait at least a week. Not all the members of this forum are constantly watching. The longer you wait the more people you’ll have interested… maybe post a selling day, give people time to plan ahead.
Most people are dvd tho, these days.
Best of Luck.
Some simple experience.
I have been to many dark places, with the potential of either being haunted or where there may be bad spirits (demons, if you like)… from old buildings to wierd primordial landscapes off the beaten track, Western Isles of Scotland, Inner Wales, Bodmin Moor are favourites. I’ve never encountered anything I would call ‘evil’ or ‘demonic’… I have encountered things that have frightened me or have felt hostile to my presence there, and so I have quickly left.
Once, many years ago in Cornwall, one night; I was sitting in the living room up late. All of a sudden (and I hadnt been thinking anything negative) I suddenly felt a strong feeling that something horrible and aggressive was in the room with me… it was so instant and I reacted almost ‘out of time’ I found myself sitting on the floor and my memory fixed upon a statue of the archangel michael that I had seen on Coventry Cathedral, a dynamic pose with his arms outstretched… I mimicked this posture. sitting on the floor with my arms outstretched and somehow embodied Michael (I’m not a Christian, this was just an instant automatic pilot condition of ‘good verses evil’… something was around me, something protective and defiant and I felt the bad energy leave my home.
I often think about that, what happened?
I just went into ‘auto’ had no rehearsed protection or talisman or incantation but just ad-libbed and my mind picked heroic Michael.
What if I had been ‘under the wheather’ or psychically unbalanced, or pickled on drugs… would I of been able to protect myself?
I’m still not sure if I belive in ‘evil’ as a force in its own right, but I think that there are hostile spirits; but that they are farely rare… hopefully.
Welcome to the forum Dogstar,
Quote:if anyone could offer any theories about why I seem to be destined to buy a lot of old Graham Phillips (and Martin Keatman) books I’d be grateful.Maybe you should just read them!
, follow your synchronicities.Quote:I have no desire for this ‘ultimate’ result… does that then make me evil?Well Yuri, yup, I guess it does Just kidding! To label someone as evil because you disagree with them is an evil.
Lol; we’re both evil then! Great company… go find some goats and I’ll light the bonfire
Second thoughts, I’m a veggie, so best make then quorn goats!
I reacted the way I did (above) because I met a fundamentalist once whose soul desire was to live in the presence of god, in attendance, forever… this struck me as insanely stagnant.
I do believe in pursuing a ‘one-ness’ with all things… is this ‘divine union’? maybe?… but to achieve this I’m not even sure if you need to be ‘divine’; I think its just a matter of trying to reach affinity and empathy with, to ‘feel’ all things. Yes, the problem or the ‘evil’ is,
Quote:the problem is un-consciousnessI think awareness and learning to feel, is the way away from this, the ‘wakening’ so-to-speak. As for getting burnt a little by the Otherworld; I’m all for it really; you’ve hardly had a great ramble in the countryside if you havent been scratched by twigs and stung by nettles a little; just dont go falling off any cliffs!
