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Working in the Light - a meditation

8/1/2014

Friday 1st August, celebrated by some as Lughnasadh or Lammas sees our group meditation, suitable for all, in the space of our new Glastonbury Sanctuary and around the Glastonbury Unity Candle.

Led by the lovely Julie Lovelock, we will start with some relaxation, followed by a guided visualisation and some time in silence, bringing in the light and uniting hearts and minds in peace and love. All are welcome.

By donation. You will be supporting the Sanctuary and helping us take our work into the future.

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About Glaston Centre School of Learning

7/10/2014

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For millennia, Glastonbury has been known as a great place of learning. In the Middle Ages, Glastonbury Abbey was acknowledged as a powerful centre of academic and spiritual activity with a great library, a school and links with the universities and political power in London. With the dissolution of the monasteries and the closing of the Abbey all this activity ceased. In the early part of the 20th Century, interest in Glastonbury as a special spiritual place revived and well-known personalities such as Dion Fortune and Rutland Boughton established themselves in the town. The war disrupted these activities but the 1980s saw a renewed interest in Glastonbury as a spiritual place and a centre of learning.

Since the summer of 2011, Glastonbury Reception Centre has been offering a wide and varied programme of talks and presentations on a Glastonbury theme. All of them have been illuminating and insightful, offering those in attendance the opportunity to explore aspects of the spiritual journey that are relevant to their own path.

Glaston Centre School of Learning has grown out of these talks. The School is not something in which one is required to enrol and instead aims to offer the opportunity for an individual to independently explore area of interest on their own personal journey of discovery.

All our speakers are very experienced in their fields; presenting knowledge and wisdom that is not always easily accessible or available.

Meet Chrissy Heaven, who has recently taken on the position of being the School's administrator.

She is a Reiki & Sekhem Master/Teacher, a Hypnosis Therapist, a Flower Essences Practitioner and a Holistic Cat Healer. She has been interested in spiritual and mystical discovery since a child. Her years of healing work inspired her to go on to gain a professional qualification in counselling.

As well as her extensive natural healing training and qualifications, Chrissy has British university degrees in Psychology, in Social Science and in Social Research as well as qualifications in adult education and management. She worked in the field of social care for over 20 years - with disabled people, prisoners and in mental health. This background, together with her psychology training, afforded her a good understanding of mind/body/spirit healing issues.

Chrissy is now retired and lives near Glastonbury. Besides being Admin for our School, she spends her days soaking up knowledge about mystical things, drinking cappuccino with her spiritual friends and making a fuss of her two black rescue cats

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The Architecture of the Soul

7/10/2014

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Photo: Matt Baldwin-Ives

We are very proud to be working with the great folks of the Silent Eye School and honoured to be bringing their work into Glastonbury. The great thing is that they feel to be learning as much as we are so we reckon that's a pretty good trade-off!

Their next talk is on Thursday the 7th August, in the Avalon Room at 7.30pm and entitled - The Architecture of the Soul: approaching the mystery together.

The evening will be largely unscripted and will rely on interaction between us all to produce a rich and personal experience.

The word 'Soul' has been used in many ways since the Greeks laid the foundations for Western Civilisation. Use of the word Soul generally donotes a personal vehicle of the self. But which self? Is my sense of "me-ness" myself? What about the personality - where does that fit into a picture of the Soul? And what about psychology's Ego, does that form a part of the overall picture?

In this talk the Silent Eye School depart from their usual style of presentation, laying out the room in a ritualistic pattern of four quadrants. Movement between each of these, by us all, will be used to illustrate the sense of self and its relationship to that which goes beyond the ordinary psyche and strives to link us out from the world of Becoming to the inner world of Being.

The presenters have long pedigrees in the Western Mystery Traditions and you can find out more about them here. . .

if you would like to attend, contact us.

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Sitting in the Tao - monthly meditation in the Sanctuary

7/8/2014

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Two new series of talks starting in the Autumn

6/28/2014

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Join us on an exciting Alchemical Journey!
In the New Age, the word alchemy has caught people's imagination. Most people know that it has something to do with turning lead into gold, or with transforming the psyche. But what actually is it? James North will be your guide on the journey and the first session is on Monday 22nd September. Find out more...

This series of 8 themed but stand alone talks, from Ian Rees, takes the major themes of Dion Fortune’s work and explores them as expressed through the work of W E Butler and Tom Oloman. The intention for those who follow the series is to give a grounding in the art of Qabalistic magic. Each talk will include experiential and practical exercises.
The first session is on Tuesday 7th October. Find out more. . .

We look forward to seeing you there!

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