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A Reality for the Future

A Reality for the Future 'And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,…

A Twentieth Century Trilogy - introduction

Back Next Bottom Start Out Glastonbury Archive UK and Studio Editions USA present A Twentieth Century Trilogy The Triad Golden River The Chalice three one-act mystic dramas concerning the life and…

A Twentieth Century Trilogy 2. Golden River

Back Next Bottom Start Out Glastonbury Archive UK and Studio Editions USA present A Twentieth Century Trilogy Golden River by Martha Keltz Published in print by Studio Editions Baltimore, Maryland &…

A Twentieth Century Trilogy 3. The Chalice

Back Next Bottom Start Out Glastonbury Archive UK and Studio Editions USA present A Twentieth Century Trilogy The Chalice by Martha Keltz Published in print by Studio Editions Baltimore, Maryland &…

A Twentieth Century Trilogy Notes

Back Next Bottom Start Out Glastonbury Archive UK and Studio Editions USA present A Twentieth Century Trilogy Notes by Martha Keltz Published in print by Studio Editions Baltimore, Maryland &…

Angels and Demons

Angels and Demons The stone circle seems as we left it, with the pillar of blue fire sinking and spreading outward through the water-lines.

Ar Agreement

The Glastonbury Archive index.html Publisher : Palden Jenkins 16 Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DB, England tel : 01458-834576 (+44-1458-834576) fax : 01458-834245 (+44-1458-834245)…

Author's Note (on-line edition, 1998)

Author's Note (on-line edition, 1998) This on-line version of Needles of Stone is based most closely on the second edition ( Needles of Stone Revisited , Gothic Image, 1986).

Avalon Brief

A brief introduction to what's special about Glastonbury

Avalon Intro

An inspirational guide to what's special about Glastonbury

BILL GLENN: Chalice Well pictures

Chalice Well Glastonbury Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for…

BILL GLENN: Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for reference.

BILL GLENN: Glastonbury Tor

Glastonbury Tor Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for reference.

BILL GLENN: Glastonbury Tor sunsets

Glastonbury Tor sunsets Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for…

BILL GLENN: Glastonbury town and area

Glastonbury town and area Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for…

BILL GLENN: Nature Flora

Flora Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for reference.

BILL GLENN: Nature Scenes

Nature scenes by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for reference.

BILL GLENN: Nature Trees

Trees Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving the picture for reference.

BILL GLENN: South West England

Scenes around Somerset and neighbouring counties Photos by Bill Glenn If seeking permission to use specific pictures, the codename of each picture is found by moving your cursor over it, or by saving…

Banners

About the IsleofAvalon website

Brent Knoll

All about Brent Knoll, iron age hill fort in Somerset

Cadbury Castle

About Cadbury Castle, South Somerset - possibly King Arthur's Camelot

Camerton

About the Roman town of Camerton, southwest of Bath

Cheddar Gorge

About Cheddar Gorge, spectacular limestone gorge in Somerset

Dowsing and Archaeology

Dowsing and Archaeology In front of us is a level green pasture; and laid out on the grass is a grid of white tape, marking out ten-metre squares.

Dundon

About Compton Dundon, Dundon Beacon and Lollover Hill

Further Reading

Further Reading This list represents a minute fraction of the published material on the various aspects of this study: the books and magazines listed here are those that were mentioned in the text or…

GETTING PUBLISHED ON THE GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE

Getting published on the Glastonbury Archive If you have material you believe would work well on the Glastonbury Archive, read (or print out) the guidelines below and get in touch.

GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE - Mission Statement

Mission Statement and publishing policy The purpose of the Glastonbury Archive is: * to publish or republish books and archives which are out of print, under-published, unable to be published in…

GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: The Gaelic Manuscripts

The Gaelic Manuscripts by Betty White with Stewart Edward White Introduction to the Panthean Press edition of The Gaelic Manuscripts During the last part of the last century and the first third of…

GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: The Gaelic Manuscripts 22

The Gaelic Manuscripts by Betty White with Stewart Edward White Chapter 22 Words and Deeds The following record seems to follow with a certain logic the whole question of communication; for it deals…

GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: The Gaelic Manuscripts 3

The Gaelic Manuscripts by Betty White with Stewart Edward White Chapter 3 The Process of Creation Although the communicator seemed dissatisfied with the form of his remarks on discomfort and…

Ghosts and Ghouls

Ghosts and Ghouls 'From ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggit beasties and things that go bump in the night, may the good lord protect us.' (An old Scottish prayer) 'Ghosties and ghoulies' and their…

Glastonbury Archive: THE LONGEST WAR - Keith Evans

The Glastonbury Archive www.isleofavalon.co.uk/archive.html presents THE LONGEST WAR THE SHORT, SAD STORY OF THE LONG WAR AGAINST DRUGS by Keith Evans UK Barrister and California Attorney (retired)…

Glastonbury Pilgrims' Trail

Click here to print this page Joseph of Arimath a The sites and sights of Glastonbury Written by Sig Lonegren with Palden Jenkins, Liz Pearson and the Friends of Bride's Mound Pilgrimage and…

Glastonbury Screensaver

A lovely free screensaver from Glastonbury with words from various sources and pictures by Bill Glenn

Great Breech Wood

Pictures of Great Breech Wood on the Polden Hills near Glastonbury, Somerset

Healing the Land

Healing the Land Three people sit on the ground of a Cotswold farmyard, discussing intently the work they are about to do.

Ilchester

About Ilchester, a Roman town at the end of the Fosse Way

Index

All about the modern community in Glastonbury

Introduction

Introduction The earth is alive: living, breathing, pulsing.

MANY TO MANY -

Issue number 62 December 1997 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Nuclear Age Peace Foundation The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan, international educational Organisation.

MANY TO MANY 1997 Right Livelihood Awards

Issue 62 December 1997 The 1997 Right Livelihood Awards The 1997 Right Livelihood Awards The 1997 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD (of approx US$240,000) will be shared by five outstanding individuals from…

MANY TO MANY 62 MAI

Issue 63 March 1998 Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) The Multilateral Agreement on Investment It seems inappropriate to say the least, that in this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of…

MANY TO MANY 63

Issue 63 March 1998 YOU and the UN This meeting, arranged by the World Civil Society Forum Group, took place 13 December 1997, at Kensington Olympia, London, for the purpose of: 1.

MANY TO MANY 63 NEVE SHALOM / WAHAT AL SALAM

Issue 63 March 1998 NEVE SHALOM / WAHAT AL-SALAM NEVE SHALOM / WAHAT AL-SALAM a community of peace working for Arab-Jewish coexistence & cooperation struggles to assure its future Over thousands of…

MANY TO MANY 63 NZ Forum for UN Renewal

Issue 63 March 1998 New Zealand Forum for UN Renewal New Zealand Forum for UN Renewal In the September 1997 issue of Many to Many we printed a report on the first meeting of the New Zealand Forum of…

MANY TO MANY 63 THE KYOTO CONFERENCE

Issue 63 March 1998 Into the Greenhouse Century A faltering first step, when a giant leap was needed, was the general verdict as the Kyoto Climate Summit limped to an exhausted conclusion in early…

MANY TO MANY 63 U N IN A NEW ERA

Issue 63 March 1998 BEYOND REFORM: the United Nations in a New Era The above title sets the scene for the Stanley Foundation's Thirty-Second United Nations of the Next Decade Conference, which took…

MANY TO MANY 63 UNESCO University Chair

Issue 63 March 1998 UNESCO CHAIR on Education for Human Rights and Peace Education for Human Rights and Peace At its 16th session in 1991 the General Conference of UNESCO decided to launch the…

MANY TO MANY 63 WATER AND LIFE

Issue 63 March 1998 Water and Life In August 1997, the South East Mediterranean Project (SEMEP) in cooperation with UNESCO, The National Youth Foundation and the Greek Government arranged its first…

MANY TO MANY 64 A HUMANITARIAN AGENDA

Issue 64 June 1998 A HUMANITARIAN AGENDA A HUMANITARIAN AGENDA The estimated 35 civil wars and communal conflicts raging in the world today are driving more people than ever before from their homes,…

MANY TO MANY 64 CALL FOR A SAFER WORLD

Issue 64 June 1998 CALL FOR A SAFER WORLD CALL FOR A SAFER WORLD The purpose of the Call for a Safer World is to demonstrate world-wide support for a more just, democratic and sustainable…

MANY TO MANY 64 GIVING VOICE TO YOUR HEART

Issue 64 June 1998 GIVING VOICE TO YOUR HEART GIVING VOICE TO YOUR HEART In the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service's publication Go Between 67 is mentioned a campaign, launched by a…

MANY TO MANY 64 Kim Phuc

Issue 64 June 1998 Kim Phuc Kim Phuc named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for a Culture of Peace On November 10, 1997, Kim Phuc (which means Constant Happiness ) was named a Goodwill Ambassador for A…

MANY TO MANY 64 MAI

Issue 64 June 1998 THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT on INVESTMENT THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT on INVESTMENT (MAI) The Ministerial Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) held Paris 27-28…

MANY TO MANY 64 NGO Forum on Social Development

Issue 64 June 1998 NGO Forum on Social Development Kuala Lumpur, Sept 1997 NGO Forum on Social Development Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8th-10th September 1997 NGOs throughout Asia and the Pacific…

MANY TO MANY 64 ONE DAY IN PEACE

Issue 64 June 1998 ONE DAY IN PEACE January 1st, 2000 ONE DAY IN PEACE, JANUARY 1st, 2000 This is a 24 hour concept where no guns are fired anywhere on earth, including on television.

MANY TO MANY 64 THE 1997 OLOF PALME PRIZE

Issue 64 June 1998 The Olof Palme Prize, 1997 OLOF PALME PRIZE The 1997 Olof Palme Prize went to Salima Ghezali, Chief Editor of the Algerian weekly magazine La Nation for her courage in continuing…

MANY TO MANY 64 TIME FOR A PEASANT'S REVOLT

Issue 64 June 1998 TIME FOR A PEASANTS' REVOLT Frank Blackaby, former director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and member of the British American Security Information…

MANY TO MANY 64 Trident Ploughshares 2000

Issue 64 June 1998 Trident Ploughshares 2000 Trident Ploughshares 2000 The following is part of the text of a Petition pledging support for Trident Ploughshares 2000: On 8th July, 1996, the President…

MANY TO MANY 65 MAI

Many-to-Many, a newsletter-website from Operation Peace through Unity, about peace and international reconciliation

MANY TO MANY 66

Many-to-Many, a newsletter-website from Operation Peace through Unity, about peace and international reconciliation

MANY TO MANY 67

Issue 67 February 1999 UNOY 2nd GLOBAL YOUTH PEACE CONFERENCE UNOY 2nd GLOBAL YOUTH PEACE CONFERENCE A UNOY contribution towards the Hague Appeal for Peace 1999 The Netherlands, May 6-16, 1999 The…

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Issue 69 September 1999 Many to Many Issue 69 September 1999 I.

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Issue 73 September 2000 Many to Many Issue 73 September 2000 1.

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Issue 74 December 2000 Many to Many Issue Number 74 December 2000 1.

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Issue 75 March 2001 Many to Many Issue Number 75 March 2001 I.

MANY TO MANY 77

Many to Many Newsletter, from Operation Peace through Unity - Gita and Sir Anthony Brooke

MANY TO MANY 78

Issue 78 December 2001 Many to Many Issue Number 78 December 2001 1.

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Issue 79 March 2002 Many-to-Many Newsletter Issue 79 March 2002 I.

MANY TO MANY DETAILED INDEX

Many to Many Full Index of entries OPTU Index Essays Latest 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Economy and Development Multilateral Agreement on Investment Democracy More on MAI…

MANY TO MANY ESSAYS

Essays This is a collection of the introductions written over recent years by Gita and Anthony Brooke for the Many-to-Many Newsletter.

MANY TO MANY ESSAYS 2

Essays This is the second part of a collection of the introductions written over recent years by Gita and Anthony Brooke for Many-to-Many Newsletter.

MANY TO MANY Equitable Tourism

Issue number 62 December 1997 Equations Equitable Tourism Options Equations Equitable Tourism Options Equations is a non-profit organisation established for research, training and the promation of…

MANY TO MANY FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Issue number 62 December 1997 For the Children of the World APPEAL OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES From : Nobel Peace Prize Laureates To : Heads of States of all member countries of the General…

MANY TO MANY INDEX

An online newsletter-website offering information on peace and reconciliation in the spirit of the U N Charter

MANY TO MANY ISSUE 62

Issue number 62 December 1997 Contents and Introduction Click on the UN flag above to look through the pages in sequence or go directly to any of them below.

MANY TO MANY ISSUE 63

Issue number 63 March 1998 Contents and Introduction Click on the UN flag above to look through the pages in sequence or go directly to any of them below.

MANY TO MANY ISSUE 67

Issue number 67 February 1999 Contents and Introduction Click on the UN flag above to look through the pages in sequence or go directly to any of them below.

MANY TO MANY International Year of the Ocean

Issue number 62 December 1997 The International Year of the Ocean 1998 The International Year of the Ocean In the same year as the world will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universal…

MANY TO MANY Model Nuclear Weapons Convention

Issue 62 December 1997 Model Nuclear Weapons Convention Model Nuclear Weapons Convention On April 7, 1997, the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy released a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention at the…

MANY TO MANY People-power at the United Nations

Issue number 62 December 1997 Building Partnerships People Power at the United Nations Building Partnerships People Power at the United Nations Twenty-two hundred keen people embracing over 600…

MANY TO MANY Science and Spirituality

Issue number 62 December 1997 Science and Spirituality Science and Spirituality The following excerpt is taken from a speech by Peter Russell delivered at the World Goodwill Seminar in London,…

MANY TO MANY U N: Building Partnerships

Issue 62 December 1997 Building Partnerships Kofi Annan A few quotes from the Secretary-General Kofi Annan s address to the fiftieth annual DPI / NGO Conference: Building Partnerships , New York, 10…

MANY TO MANY UNESCO Symposium on Water

Issue number 62 December 1997 UNESCO Symposium on Water UNESCO Symposium on Water A two-day Symposium on Water, took place in April at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, during which 300 participants…

MANY TO MANY Water and Ethics

Issue 62 December 1997 Water Ethics Water Ethics The first World Water Forum was held March this year in Marrakesh, Morocco, in which the participants came to the conclusion that unless immediate…

Maesbury Castle

About Maesbury Castle on the Mendip escarpment, overlooking Glastonbury

Magical Mystery Tor

Paranormal experiences, fairy lore and Arthurian traditions concerning Glastonbury Tor

Magicians

Magicians We are back at the stone circle again, looking down on it from above.

Maker of Myths

History and traditions around Glastonbury Tor, by Frances Howard-Gordon

Meare

About the village of Meare on the Somerset Levels, near Glastonbury

Mendips

About the Mendip summits around Charterhouse

NEEDLES OF STONE - ZIPFILE DOWNLOAD

Download Needles of Stone in a PC zipfile (700k) to read onscreen or print out through your browser When you have downloaded the zipfile, unzip the contents (text and graphics) into their own…

Needles of Stone

Needles of Stone Return to that stone circle that we saw before, glowing and pulsing with points and lines and zones of coloured light.

Needles of Stone: Contents

Needles of Stone by Tom Graves This book is a search for a magical technology: the elusive 'earth energies' connected with standing stones and other sacred sites.

Out and About

A photographic journey around Glastonbury and environs

Postscript

Postscript It is now the best part of a decade since this book was first published: and it's interesting to see how much has changed since then.

Preface

Preface This book is a study in ideas, an attempt to put some of the ideas that have arisen in the 'earth mysteries' field into some coherent shape or form, to place them in a context that makes…

Priddy

About Priddy, Priddy Circles and Priddy Nine Barrows, on the Mendip Hills

SPIRITUAL DOWSING by Sig Lonegren

A noteworthy book on dowsing, spirituality, ancient sites and healing, by Sig Lonegren. Re-published online by the Glastonbury Archive.

STANLEY MESSENGER

The Archive of Stanley Messenger World Telepathic History in the English Language NEXT BACK INDEX Glastonbury Archive PRINT ARCHIVE CCCLXIV Vol 853 HOLT RICHARDS AND THE WORLD ELECTRO-MAGNETIC…

STANLEY MESSENGER | Dancing with Tears

The Archive of Stanley Messenger Dancing with Tears A corn circle adventure NEXT BACK INDEX Glastonbury Archive PRINT Contents Foreword Speaking with other dimensions Five sessions with the Archangel…

STANLEY MESSENGER | My Father's House

The Archive of Stanley Messenger My Father s House Stanley Messenger Written for a class of eight year olds in a Steiner school in 1951 NEXT BACK INDEX Glastonbury Archive PRINT My father s house is…

Scene1980S

Tracing the Map | a 20th Century history of Glastonbury High Street

Sm Ccircles

A two-part exposition of Stanley's vision of crop circles

Sm Rounds Scores

The Archive of Stanley Messenger Stanley's Musical Rounds the Scores Musical notation provided by Marcus Tristan Heathcock NEXT BACK INDEX Glastonbury Archive These musical scores, prepared by Marcus…

Stanton Drew

About Stanton Drew stone circle, between Bristol and Glastonbury

Steep Holm

About Panborough Hill, mid-Somerset, on the ancient former River Brue

THE CATHAR CONNECTION 10

The Archive of Stanley Messenger The Cathar Connection a novel by Stanley Messenger RECIPE FOR A THREEFOLD CONJUNCTION NEXT BACK START INDEX Glastonbury Archive PRINT Take Death Enough to achieve,…

THE LONGEST WAR part four

The Longest War - the short, sad story of the long War against Drugs, by Keith Evans ('UK barrister and California attorney, retired')

THE LONGEST WAR part one

The Longest War - the short, sad story of the long War against Drugs, by Keith Evans (UK barrister and California attorney, retired)

THE LONGEST WAR part three

The Longest War - the short, sad story of the long War against Drugs, by Keith Evans (barrister and attorney, ret'd)

THE LONGEST WAR part two

The Longest War - the short, sad story of the long War against Drugs, by Keith Evans (UK barrister and California attorney, retired)

THE LONGEST WAR postscript

The Longest War Next Back Start Glastonbury Archive THE LONGEST WAR THE SHORT, SAD STORY OF THE LONG WAR AGAINST DRUGS by Keith Evans UK Barrister and California Attorney (retired) POSTSCRIPT To…

THE LONGEST WAR: frontispiece

The Glastonbury Archive presents THE LONGEST WAR THE SHORT, SAD STORY OF THE LONG WAR AGAINST DRUGS by Keith Evans MA (Cantab) UK Barrister and California Attorney (retired) How the War against Drugs…

THE LONGEST WAR: introduction

The Longest War - the short, sad story of the long War against Drugs, by Keith Evans (UK barrister and California attorney, retired)

The Return of Paganism

The Return of Paganism It had incredible shimmering colours, and as it changed its shape it could easily be imagined to he fluttering multi-coloured wings.

Tortraits

Photos of Stone Down beneath Glastonbury Tor by Palden Jenkins

Tracing the Map

Audio-visual documentary of High Street changes 1900–2000.

Wimble Toot

About Wimble Toot, ancient mound south of Glastonbury

large map

The Ancient Sites around Glastonbury Map copyright Palden Jenkins .

panorama

A 360-degree view from the top of Glastonbury Tor

site map

Sitemap for the IsleofAvalon site from Glastonbury, England

sunsets

Photos of Glastonbury Tor at sunset by Bill Glenn