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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. 



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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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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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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...
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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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The Song in the Silence

4/6/2014

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Our interactive talk last Thursday was entitled 'Word, Vowel, Cycle, Harmony' and delivered to us by the Silent Eye School of Consciousness as part of a series of six talks that are running throughout 2014. This was the second talk. 

Sue Vincent - the fiery red-head of the team delivers her thoughts on the evening. 


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Sue Vincent
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The Song in the Silence

It is something akin to stage fright perhaps; no matter what logic dictates, there is always that nervous moment as you wait to see if anyone is going to turn up. As Steve Tanham and Stuart France had prepared the room there was little more for me to do but sit quietly with an eye on the door. With over half an hour to go, it looked like being a long wait. But we needn’t have worried. The evening began with the arrival of a poet I have long wanted to meet, followed by old friends of the School. Then slowly the circle filled and a room full of people waited for the talk to begin.

As always, Morgana introduced the evening, and introduced us also to the Glastonbury Taize singers, whose monastic chants grace the Abbey every Friday morning. That the group had been drawn to come by the title of the talk, sacrificing their practice evening to join us, was wonderful and gave an extra reason, were any needed, to make the talk a good one.

The Singers kindly agreed to begin the evening for us with a chant; such a gift to have that sacred sound fill the room with beauty! From that moment the subject of the evening, the Song in the Silence, came alive for those who were there.

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The circle joined in opening the space with Light. For the Silent Eye this is important; a reminder that all is sacred and can be consciously seen as such, from the most mundane of tasks to the highest Working. It set the tone for the evening, where the subject we explored showed the inherent harmony in the song of life itself.

Steve is our master presenter. Years of experience within the business world, AMORC and the Servants of the Light have honed his skills for explaining complex concepts in an understandable and entertaining way. From a circle to the geometry of the Vesica Piscis, so familiar in Glastonbury, Steve presented the group with a visual guide to the unconsidered aspects of the way in which we speak, communicating with sounds that are born of inherent harmony.

Now this is all very well… but it is engaging the intellect only and we are beings of more than mind alone; understanding is born when all levels of being are brought into action. So we passed out paper and geometry sets and for the next twenty minutes Stuart showed the group how to construct the Vesica for themselves and how they could see in practical terms that inherent harmony develop. This engages the body, creativity and emotion and at one point, as the harmony became visible on paper, I heard ‘Wow!’ from one of the musicians.

We began the second half with a short meditation then continued our exploration of harmony and sound, for the harmony born of the circle is woven through the roots of life itself. By the end of the evening we had shared much, our own stories interwoven through a shared journey towards understanding. 


For Steve, Stuart and myself the evening was wonderful. It is always a joy to visit Glastonbury; we had felt welcomed and, as we raised a glass in the local pub with a number of those who had shared the evening with us, we began looking forward to the next talk in June when we will present a symbol that has become much misunderstood…
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Copyright: The Silent Eye School of Consciousness
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Yes, it's a photo from a couple of years ago, but it's when Sue & Morgy first began piloting  a shared journey ;) 
For now, however, our focus is firmly on the event ahead, as the Silent Eye annual weekend workshop in Derbyshire begins on the 11th April and it is all hands on the deck of the Hawk as the final flurry of activity begins, creating the ritual drama that will take our Companions on a journey of imagination and intent from a science fiction setting to ancient Egypt and beyond. Once again we have Companions flying in from across the world to join us for what promises to be a spectacular weekend… and the final countdown has begun.

We of the Silent Eye would like to express our gratitude to Morgana West and the Glastonbury Reception Centre for their efforts and work to ensure that the Glastonbury talks are both a success and a joy. Thank you.

Sue Vincent
Director
The Silent Eye School of Consciousness


For a copy of the programme brochure for The Land of the Exiles, click on the image below. 
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