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Energy lines and Wyrd

A strange thought came to me this evening as I was thinking about mapping energy lines and doing a bit or research on the web. I was wondering what energy lines where? – where they came from? and so on and suddenly a thought popped up – Wyrd. The women of wyrd or the three wyrd sisters spinning the web of wyrd – what if part of that web was Earth energy?

The ancients felt these earth energies and used them. They built huge structures where earth energy lines seem to cross. How did they use them? Brain Bates in his novel Way of Wyrd has the apprentice being taught how to use lines of the wyrd web to propel himself through space. The book is fictional of course but the thought was perhaps the ancients knew a lot more about energy lines as a web and perhaps they saw their fate as wrapped up in that web of energy lines. perhaps this is the wyrd web spun by the three sisters?

It’s a thought and one that I wanted to record for future investigation…

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Dance to My Music

My music is available at all digital music outlets for sale and streaming include Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Deezer and many more…..

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Girl on the Phone by G. Michael Vasey – From the Anatomy of Love album

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Social Media’s Mirror

One of Franz Bardon’s exercises is to spend a month writing down as many personal faults as you can think of and then a month writing down all of the positive traits you can think of. He calls this a mirror and it is known as Bardon’s Mirror. In fact, if you follow Bardon through, the next step is to assign an element to each fault and virtue (Fire, Earth, Water, Air) and see which element dominates and which is weak so you can work on addressing an elemental balance within yourself. It is actually a very hard thing to do. I have tried several times and never been truly happy with the results because plainly, I’m blind to my traits. I did ask a few close friends but despite getting some good feedback, they really don’t want to upset you either right? I also found that it is easier to write negatives about yourself than positives – which came as a bit of a surprise. I’m a bit airy it seems.

Anyway, it is something worth doing even if you don’t get to the entire truth. What I discovered also is that many negative traits can also be positive so critiquing yourself can actually have the wrong result. Let’s say for example, I think I have a huge ego and that this is an issue – a negative trait. OK, but without an ego, would I write, make music, blog? Is that then a negative trait? Actually, having a bit of an ego is a necessity for many things and can be viewed positively. Perhaps I think myself a giving and unselfish person and that is positive. But, isn’t that how I have been abused and taken advantage of in life so many times so perhaps that giving nature is a negative trait? Perhaps one has to consider these traits and virtues in a more balanced way – each is the other face of something opposite and where is my balance between those? Perhaps my giving nature is a negative trait because I have never learned to say no and stand my ground? Perhaps ego is a positive trait because it is something useful in terms of drive? In both instances, my ‘balance’ can be moved by stress, anger, unease and so many other emotions/situations and swing to the opposite end of the scale. So the exercise was doubly useful as it highlighted an elemental imbalance per Bardon and showed me that it really is about finding the balance in life. The more I look and think about such things the more I despair that actually, there is no hard and fast answer. There is no single truth to be found but rather a range of options for different circumstances and thus it becomes about you as a person through life as opposed to you as a static person this minute…. if you follow?

Anyway. That got my thought juices flowing and thinking about social media in terms of a mirror. The initial thought was that I tend to post what is on my mind at any time and to do so as a form of diary that is open to my social media friends. Actually, this is dangerous because I cannot be sure that these thoughts and reactions won’t be used against me either by those very people I shared them with or the platform itself. Imagine if a reactionary and totalitarian government came to power and was able to see your FB or Twitter page? Could be terminal.

There is another problem though and that is mirroring. Once you start to post and like and join groups, the AI engine behind the platform gives you more of the same. Before you know it, you are in a personal echo chamber receiving confirmation that your views are correct and Ok. It is comfortable to live in this little echo chamber as no one is arguing you are wrong in fact, everyone is thinking just like you. It’s rather scary actually and I believe behind many of the issues we now face as a society. People come to think that their views are shared by a majority when in fact, they are simply echoing. They are then utterly shocked by an election or something that goes the other way.

I just killed all of my twitter accounts because of this. I mean its a place where you shout your views from a hilltop and attract people who are similar and read their hilltop shouts…. what an utter vacuous waste of time and how dangerous. Facebook may be next but I use it as an outlet and also for marketing so….its harder to wean myself off it. However, reading back some of my commentary, I can see how people may gain an utterly false impression of me just from FB…. I’m not sure I like that idea.

But it did make me think about the Bardon’s mirror exercise again. Am I able to really dissect myself dispassionately or am I eternally stuck inside my own echo chamber? I’m a good guy you know…how could I not be? The things I do are positive mostly and not hurting anyone…. or am I? I am at least expressing myself and I am trying to improve myself but if I can’t actually see the flaws I’m wasting my time…. aren’t I? Well no, I’m doing my best with what I have to work with and the more I do it, the more I become aware of things that need to be looked at. Again, its looking at yourself through time as opposed to the static you.

Thoughts?

 

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It’s My Life

One of my more popular songs is a rock anthem called It’s My Life. It was one of those songs that as a writer, it is in your head and drives you nuts. You play around on the guitar trying to actualize something in your head with increasing frustration because you can’t quite get there. And then -POW – you got it and in a few minutes of recording frenzy… its done….. and bugger it – I want this song played full volume at my funeral.

 

A few days ago, a FB friend sent me a private message…. he basically said I was brave to tell it like it was. He agreed with me but if he said as much, he’d be in trouble and lose his job. The same day, I was talking to a client who I go back with 20+ years and he said – you have some balls! I saw your posts and comments on Linkedin. I’m with you all the way but I’d be in so much trouble if I said that…In fact, I have heard this many times in a short space of time. Isn’t it sad when your freedom to speak is taken away? Isn’t it sad when you dare not speak up for fear of losing your job or your clients? When you cannot tell the truth as you see it?

Last night I watched a couple of presentations on youtube. They concerned ancient sites and ‘forbidden’ archeology. The theme in both was that the ‘scientists’ or shall we say the small group of people who focus academically on the subjects – egyptologists, archeologists and so on – not only decry these ideas but ridicule them and even try to stop speakers presenting and TV shows being made if they disagree with the prevailing ‘consensus’. As a young Geology researcher, I encountered the same and the science of geology is full of now laughable theories that were hung onto like gospel by the prevailing ‘experts’ of the day and their academic egos. I recall being put in my place for having ideas that were outwith the co called ‘consensus’ yet years later, finding many of those ideas were now broadly accepted.

I think anytime we close our minds to a possibility or worse still, try to suppress new ideas and theories, we are ossifying ourselves and humanity. As I listened last night, to me anyway, it seems highly probably that the current mainstream ideas on human origins and ancient monuments are simply wrong. I’m not saying I believe every word that anyone says in this or any other area – one has to apply critical judgement and common sense – but there is enough there to start asking questions. The sad thing is that the power that be in those fields will try to stop those questions being asked and ridicule those that ask them. Well, I’m asking and I could not care less about being ridiculed. And, when it comes to other issues like climate, I’m also asking and challenging….. and will continue to do so because this is how science and philosophy are supposed to work. The idea that any theory is the truth as it stands is naive at best and plain stupid at worst.

Like Ricky Gervais – I don’t care anymore. I will say the things that need to be said. I will keep on being me and pointing out the PC nonsense that is strangling our freedom. It’s my life after all and I am gonna live it!

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Fun Mapping energy Lines

I’m busy in my spare time at the moment mapping energy lines on Špilberk Castle. This is the Castle above my apartment that I have written about before. I took my rods out and walked around the Castle one day last week.

 

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Špilberk Castle, Brno – Photo from https://www.visitbrno.cz/en/brno-spil...

Initially, I was trying to use Google maps and failed miserably.  Then I discovered that there is an app for that!! Really! It’s called Dowsing Mapper it is available for the iPhone and Android. It even has its own webpage and youtube video use instructions. It doesn’t take long to learn to use and is actually very easy to work with. I was amazed that such an app existed to be honest but I expect to be using it a lot from now on. Using GPS and Google maps, it places you on a map and allows you to enter a point – accuracy depends on GPS locally – but its not too bad. Having placed the point, you can then give it direction and enter a lot more information about it including an identifier, strength, polarity, comments and so on. It will also track where you go on the map if needed. As I say, I found it easy to use and edit. Occasionally, the GPS accuracy isn’t wonderful but in a place like Špilberk, there are lots of landmarks so you can edit to location to a more accurate place.

So, I have been out twice now and still have a lot of work to do. However, it seems clear that there are 2 or maybe 3 energy lines that may cross at the Castle location. I think there are 3 but it will take more time and careful checking to establish that for sure. That they cross at the castle location is a given as their directions leave no other conclusion. Here is as far as I have got as of today…

 

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WIP in the application on my phone

 

As you can see, I still have a lot of walking to do. I want to track the lines as far as I can in each direction. Try to see where they go. I think I also need to recheck each point and direction as I think at least one point has an incorrect direction. What is really interesting is that as you try to pick up the same line at a different place on the map, you can sort of workout where it should be. The surprise comes when you encounter the energy line before or after you expected it. You re-walk it several times thinking it con’t be right but then after you have several points on the line – it does fit! The lines aren’t straight like ley lines – they wind and curve a bit as they go. What amazes me is that I pick them up every time. To date, I have been more focused on one line than the others – as you can see. The blue dot is where I am now – home.

You are walking along and those rod cross. You back up and it happens again. You walk it the other way and it crosses again. You say OK – show me the middle of the line and the rods comply. Show me the direction and the rod swings and points. You can detect how thick the line is too. Most are several meters wide. Come back a week later and do it again – same result! As you can see from the photo above, the Castle is on a steep hill. You cannot simply follow the line but have to walk the paths and find it on each path.

Yep – you get a few funny looks. One or two know what it is you are doing though and I have heard parents tell their kids in Czech I’m looking for water. I’m not. I’m looking for earth energies but close enough.

The key take aways are that it seems to work, that many of these old sites seem to be placed where energy lines cross, it gets you outdoors, it’s exercise and its fun! What more could you ask for?

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History of Warming

These days, we are hammered from almost every source about how it’s warming and the climate is changing. I can imagine for some, it is very alarming and even scary. Me? Well I’m an Aquarian and by nature a contrarian. I also have the dubious benefit of having studied Geology an extra 6-years after school attaining a Ph.D and having published about 8 or 9 peer reviewed scientific papers in that time. This has given me another way to look at things as follows;

I understand how science works – I have played that game….
I have a 4.5 billion year perspective as opposed to a 60-year one….
I know how to do research and how to distinguish real facts from beliefs,
I’m not afraid to say it like I see it.

For me, it could be warming and it could be cooling – we really do not know for sure. Distilling temperatures down to one single global average is just a useless meaningless thing to do. We can look at temperature data in different places and see that some places are warming and others cooling – we can also see that these temperature records are incomplete, fraught with errors and omission and frequently ‘adjusted’ to suit the adjuster’s hypothesis. In fact, a PhD was just done on this topic and the conclusion was that our temperature record is virtually useless. I don’t have the reference to hand but if you google that patiently, you will find the source for the PhD study. Then we get headlines like ‘warmest year on record!’ Scary stuff except – what record? If you look at history you will find how stupid such a statement really is. The Romans grew vines in the north of England and exported the wine made there – could you do that now? Isn’t that part of the record too? That is just one example I can give you many, many more.

Ah I hear you say, but I see it. It is getting warmer. It may well be or perhaps if you go back and really remember, it is just the impact of everyone telling you it’s warmer? I went back 10-years looking at my old iPhone photos – all stamped with time, location and date – I can tell you 10-years ago there were warm days in December and cold days in June too based on my photo collection. And, even if you are right what does it mean? Nothing. Climate is about trends in weather over millennia not years. You don’t live long enough to make a qualified statement if the truth be told.

And if it is getting warmer? what of it? We are told all sorts of dire things will happen. Yet, our ancestors lived in a much warmer world and thrived versus those who lived in a much colder one – and didn’t. You will read a lot of dire warnings but let’s just consider warmer shall we…

Warmer results in many less deaths than cooler – obvious really
There is actually no evidence that warmer means more cataclysmic weather events – in fact – it means less according to the current statistics

– again please google that to prove it to yourself. If you need help, email me.

More CO2 I hear you say. That horrible poisonous pollutant! Err… not really. You see if is plant food and plants can’t live without the stuff. There is much evidence that more not less CO2 is better for the planet which is certainly greening – a quick peek at NASA images shows that. Plants love CO2 and with more people to feed, more growth and more productivity from crops in a higher CO2 world is good. Oh and by the way, for the vast majority of this planet’s past, CO2 was up in the percentage range not down in the parts per million range. Ie. We have less of the stuff now than almost ever before.

 

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The Greening Earth

Then consider this. If the climate didn’t change, If weather patterns didn’t change we could confidently say that the planet was dead. A living planet changes. And, why restrict ourselves to this planet. If man made CO2 is causing warming that is melting the ice caps then please tell me why the Martian ice caps are also melting? Unless of course those pesky Martians have been driving gas guzzling vehicles too?

Sorry, I’m not going to allow a bunch of alarmists bully and cajole me into going back to and 1870’s life style just because they believe in something I can show is false. And, if we all do go back to an 1870’s lifestyle just imagine the death toll…… Stalin and Mao will look positively nice compared to todays alarmists who seem to want to cull the human population. (Yes – they want no cars, no electricity, no gas…. no travel. Wind and solar can never be the sole providers of power and come with a huge set of environmental issues themselves. So what we supposed to do – burn wood?).

One last thing to think on. 26,000 years ago, a group of humans lived about 60km to the south of Brno where I am now. They hunted Mammoths and evidence off their short and harsh lives is very interesting and very much on display here in various museums. Back then, the glaciers extended down to just north of Brno.  So if all that warming to get to the current day weather here in Czechia took place over the last 26,000 years, why did it happen? As one of my facebook friends posted sarcastically – must have been the Mammoth farts as they surely weren’t driving Fords.

 

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Sowing Warmth – By Sue Vincent

This post by my very good friend, Sue Vincent, really had me thinking this morning and seems very apt for a Sunday post… If you enjoy it please pop over to her blog and catch a few more insightful thoughts from Sue and her friends…

 

There was a road closure on the way to work, so, to avoid the build-up of traffic, I took to the back streets, wending my way through a residential area and passing the house in which we had first lived when we moved south. To let oncoming cars pass, I pulled to one side, almost outside our old home, and was able to see what had become of my garden.

It had been a blank canvas when we had moved in, with nothing but grass and a bedraggled jasmine, struggling to survive in the concrete near the door. With little money, but lots of ideas, we had set about making a family garden. At the back of the house, surrounded by high walls and fences, we made a little wonderland for the boys.

A small pond, just big enough to attract a bit of wildlife, was lined with sheeting supplied by an undertaker friend. He also brought us a couple of sheets of wood, with an innocent suggestion that we ask no questions. These we turned into a wishing well filled with flowers, making shingles for its roof from a scrap of old roofing felt we found in the shed. Disposable plastic tubs were painted to make wall planters. Tin snips made a flock of painted butterflies up the side of the house and we added a waterwheel to the pond. Strange beings looked out from flowerbeds filled with the seeds, cuttings and wild herbs I collected. It didn’t take long before it was ablaze with life.

The front garden, though not the kind of place where you would spend much time, could be seen through the sitting room window and sloped upwards, giving a good view of the bare grass. I dug borders, planted as many cuttings as I could acquire. While they rooted and grew, I threw in seeds to add colour, and within a few months, the garden looked respectable.

While planting the back garden had been a case of filling space with whatever I could acquire, the front was planned with due regard for eventual height, spread, colour and flowering season, mixing in as many evergreens as I could with summer flowering shrubs and plants, so that it would be attractive all year round.

I have often wondered what became of our little wonderland. I can’t imagine anyone else would have enjoyed it the same as we did, when we had all been involved in its creation. The front garden, though, I have seen a few times over the years. At one point, it was an overgrown jungle. Then someone moved in who took care of it and it began to bloom again.

Today I had just enough time to see that what was left of my winter planting had worked and was still offering scented blooms, colour and texture, even on a cold January day. Many of the plants I had acquired were unlabelled mysteries. Unless I could recognise shoot, bark or leaf, I just planted things and tended them. The handfuls of seed fell where they would and grew how they chose. But the known shrubs had done as I had hoped… even though it is more than twenty years since I planted those first little cuttings.

I couldn’t help thinking, as I drove away after that brief glimpse, how good an analogy a garden can be for aspects of our own lives. I am far from the first to come to that conclusion: the parable of the Sower is well known. We never know if, or how, what we ‘plant’ will grow.

What really struck me, though, was that most of the time, we don’t even realise we are planting ‘seeds’. With every anecdote, every bit of life experience shared, every insight or opinion we offer, every bit of hard-won wisdom we can pass on… even in the lightest of conversations. What seems rather mundane to us, might be exactly what someone needs to hear, even though they may not need or recall it for years to come. When the need does arise, that ‘seed’, unwittingly planted, may just flower and bear fruit.

We may not be around to see it and may never know how our words, deeds and actions affect another’s life. It can be the smallest of things… something we ourselves have not even noticed, from a kind word or a shared smile, that changes a day for someone we don’t even know and may never see again. But it matters. Every time.

 

Reblogged from The Silent Eye

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Strange Book Reviews

I read a lot of very strange books. From those about dowsing and earth energies to those about magical theory and everything in between. A couple of years ago I had an idea. Why not build a site to review the books I read? Strangebookreviews was born. I used it for a while and then things slipped….. but I’m back to adding to the site now and intend to keep it going. A couple of new reviews have been added and I have been busy adding the books I have read this last 18-months or so ready to add reviews. The site has been getting traffic from somewhere even though it was essentially dormant for a year or more.

At the moment, I am working with the designer of the site – Andrew Colby – who I work with on all my websites, to change it up a bit. It’s not that the original concept is being change – just the emphasis. You see, I will allow authors or publishers to pay me to read and review a book if they want but I think that I want the site to better represent that this is MY collection of books primarily and rarely, I only occasionally will I take on the mantle of a professional reviewer and those reviews will be stated as paid for in the review. I also want the books to be more searchable and findable on the site. So the menu will change quite a bit in the next couple of weeks to reflect these changes.

I also want to continue hosting interviews with authors featured on the site and what is now called ‘blogs’ will become a strictly interview focused area. There are interviews already with authors like Ellen Sentier, Alan Richardson and Gordon Strong up already with many more to follow. Eventually if I have the time and inclination, maybe we will podcast interviews as well…..

Anyway take a look! It’s a site in progress and will change over the next few weeks but hopefully it will develop into something. It’s at Strange Book Reviews.

 

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A Final Stop and More Templars

After the experience at Mikulov, we headed back to Brno taking a short detour to a town named Čejkovice. I wanted to take a quick look to see if there was anything there worth spending time on later. Čejkovice was the second Templar establishment in the Czech Republic after Prague and the first in Moravia when they arrived in the 1230’s here. Just as in the case of Jamolice, the town’s coat of arms recalls their presence.

 

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Čejkovice coat of arms

 

Unfortunately, not much is recorded regarding the presence of the commanderie – only a mention in 1248 in a document issued by the Lord of Břeclav apparently. The history of the town is summarized as follows by the website of the Chateau – more of which shortly!

Following the dissolution of the order, Čejkovice was acquired by the powerful Lords of Lipá. After Jindřich of Lipá and his descendants, Čejkovice was held by Albert and Vilém of Šternberk, the Moravian Margrave Jošt, Boček of Kunštát, Heřman of Zástřizl, Herolt Kuna of Kunštát, Albrecht of Víckov and Jan Adam of Víckov. His property was forfeited because he took the anti-Hapsburg side during the Uprising of the Estates. In 1624, the Chateau was gifted to the Olomouc College of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits completed the construction of the building in its present form.

After the Jesuits were abolished in 1773, the Chateau was transferred to a study fund in 1774. In 1783, Čejkovice was purchased from the study fund by Emperor Joseph II and the Supreme Office for the Administration of the Imperial Estates was established at the Chateau. “In addition to the offices and residences of officials, ten imperial rooms were ready for members of the imperial family and their guests at all times in the inner section of the building, as the Hapsburgs often held hunts and hunting festivities at the nearby Hodonín forestry district.” (from the Čejkovice Journal 1248–1998). In 1785, Čejkovice was visited by Emperor Joseph II, and in 1880 by Emperor Franz Joseph I.

The town is also the third-largest wine town in the country and sits in the center of the Moravian wine area.

 

The Templars built a fortress, a church (dedicated to St. Kunhuta) and a tower. The fortress eventually became the said Chateau – which is now a hotel! The Templars were also engaged in the wine business locally it seems and a provincial Templar commander is believed to have lived there – a man by the name of Ekko. The Templars are also believed to have constructed vast wine cellars by the Castle which are still in use today and are known as the Templarske sklepy or Templar Cellars and tours can be booked it seems. There is also a wine maker and label that I see every time I visit the supermarket and always thought to be just a brand….it turns out, this is the Templar wine maker for real…

 

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Now the interesting thing about Ekko is that he died in around 1310 in ‘Resnowitz’ – which is the old German name of Řeznovice where we started our weekend at the Templar church with the part of a Templar tombstone – perhaps his. It seems he is the Templar commander buried there. He was a pretty important fellow being head of the templars in Bohemia, Moravia and Austria until 1308.

Again, the Templars are always associated with strange legends due to the order’s wealth and supposed practices. In this case, there is supposed to be a Templar treasure hidden somewhere in the vicinity of the fortress and the cellars are reputed to extend for many kilometers underground….

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The Templar Cellars

And what of the Templar church? According to its website it has a history as follows,

The first mention of the church is dated in 1269. It mentions the foundation of the church by the German Templars. The parish led the spiritual administration until 1311, when the order was abolished. They brought here respect for St. Kunhuta and her church. She was the wife of the Bavarian Duke Henry. We are missing information about the following period. The parish must have been dilapidated and abandoned. Only after the Thirty Years’ War in 1624 Čejkovice was taken over by the Jesuits who led proper spiritual administration and also took care of the church.

 The church was several times in its history destroyed and rebuilt. It was first destroyed by the Swedes in 1645 during the siege of Brno. Jesuits repaired it, but 20 years later burned down with a large part of the village. The fire was then in the blacksmith’s forge and the bells melted in the fire. The church was rebuilt with the tower in 1700. It was not long after 5 years that Hungarian rebels invaded and destroyed the church by fire. It was then restored again. But it burnt down again in 1778. Then it was repaired again. In 1891, a large reconstruction of the roof and ceiling took place. There was a vaulted ceiling in the church at that time, which was very heavy, and the perimeter walls opened and threatened to collapse the church. Therefore, the vaulted ceiling was torn down and replaced by a flat ceiling and at the same time a new tower was built. The whole church underwent a general overhaul. The church was consecrated Bishop of Brno on 9.1.1892.

So promising perhaps? We pulled up to the Hotel Chateau hoping to get at least a coffee only to discover it was closed. It would open the following day! The cellars were also closed with no possibility of a tour until April at the earliest while the church is a modern building – though it may still be worth a visit. So after a short and chilly walk to take a few photos, our weekend was over and we headed back to Brno.

 

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The Chateau – now hotel

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The Templar Cellars

 

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And Templar Restaurant…

So, we will go back in the Spring and stay in the Chateau where Ekko and his retinue once stayed and tour the cellars, visit the church and sample the wine….. could be fun!

Strangely though, we had come full circle and in an unexpected way. The famed Templar commander who resided at Čejkovice – our last stop – turned out to be the one buried in the church we had started at…..

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Feeling it at Holy Hill

By the time we reached the car from Templštejn, it was already early afternoon and after a quick stop for a late lunch, it was pretty much already dark. So we headed towards Mikulov on the border with Austria where in the morning the plan was to climb up Holy Hill.

Mikulov is a beautiful town at the southern end of the Pavlov Hills and in the wine growing region (Palava is probably my favorite Czech wine). The town was founded sometime in the 12th Century and is today dominated by a fine Chateau at the center of the town standing on a rocky hill called Zameckÿ vrch. It was originally a Romanesque castle that was rebuilt in Gothic form and then as a Renaissance chateau and is now a museum. The town center is made up of cobbled streets and small houses. Mikulov is also famous for having had the most important Jewish community in Moravia prior to World War 2 and there is a large Jewish cemetery in the town. It is a pretty town and full of things to do and visit.

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Mikulov

However, my objective was the hill forming the eastern boundary of Mikulov called Svatÿ Kopeček – or Holy Hill. I had never climbed it in all the visits I had made to the town over the years – frankly, I was too lazy to climb 330m of Jurassic limestone! The hill is holy because it is a pilgrimage site that had 7 stations of the cross and a chapel at the top built to thank God for saving Mikulov from the Plague by Cardinal Francis of Dietrichstein (1570-1636), Bishop of Olomouc. According to the Town’s website the history of the hill and the buildings on it is rather difficult to reconstruct,

The first building was probably a chapel dedicated to the protectors against the plague of St. Šebestiánovi. Its foundation stone was consecrated on July 2, 1623 and the whole building was completed in 1630. At that time, a Stations of the Cross with seven chapels representing seven passion stops were probably already built. Accurate reconstruction of the original Stations of the Cross is very difficult today. It can be assumed that in addition to the Chapel of St. Sebastian , bell tower and chapel of the Holy Sepulcherit also included chapels having the order numbers 1, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 today.

In this form, the appearance of Holy Hill remained unchanged until the mid-18th century. In the years 1750-1776 was then built seven more chapels, which was at that time filled with a mandatory number – 14 stops. The whole new Stations of the Cross were solemnly consecrated on 1 September 1776. Thus, the complex got its final appearance, which since this year comprises a total of 17 masonry buildings. Unfortunately, the completed complex served only 10 years on Svatý kopeček. During the reign of Emperor Joseph II. In 1786 the Chapel of Sts. The Stations of the Cross, together with her, ceased to serve the Stations of the Cross. The whole set of buildings was destined for liquidation and was saved from the final destruction by the fact that it was a private property of the Dietrichstein family.

He decided to preserve the buildings and use them for private purposes. However, the whole area began to deteriorate. It was not until Augustine Bartenstein came to the office of the Provost of Mikulov that the pilgrimage site was restored to faded glory. In the years 1862-1865 the entire Stations of the Cross including the Chapel of Sts. Šebestiána and belfry repaired. On the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (8 September) was the Chapel of St. Saint Sebastian consecrated again. Since 1865, therefore, two traditions were united – the Stations of the Cross to the Holy Hill and the pilgrimage to the Mikulov Black Madonna of Loreto. Anna (today’s Dietrichstein tomb).

The tradition of Marian pilgrimages, begun in 1865, when the statue of the Mikulov Madonna is brought to the Holy Hill, was interrupted only once, in 1938-1945, when pilgrimages were banned. At the end of the Second World War, the entire Way of the Cross was greatly damaged, but immediately after the end of the war work began on its reconstruction. Thus the first postwar pilgrimage to the Holy Hill took place in September 1946. This year, the property rights over the pilgrimage site were transferred to the collegiate chapter of St. Wenceslas in Mikulov, the church became not only spiritual but also responsible owner.

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Black Madonna pilgrimage – https://www.vychodni-morava.cz/en/cil...

 

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Beginning the ascent

But, the Bishop probably had another motive as well when creating the way of the cross and chapel on the hill. He was able to use the hill then known as Tanzburg Hill and rename it to Holy Hill. Tanzburg Hill (Tance – to dance) was actually known for its long pagan history and legends say that the name originates from the dancing performed on the hill to celebrate nature and fertility. It still has a reputation for its strong Earth energies and for an ability to heal and bring fertility. Although it is hard to find much detail about the pagan past of the hill, it seems that it had a long history and a reputation that includes witches sabbats and even a legend about a dragon and a princess! So the Bishop did what the church was very good at – christianize a pagan holy site.

As we climbed the hill, you immediately notice the white Jurassic limestone. It is hard and quite angular making it difficult to walk. Many of the stations of the cross occupy recesses or small caves in the limestone. It’s quite a climb actually and although it was a beautiful sunny day with a blue sky and not a cloud in sight, the wind howled and froze any uncovered flesh. The steep climb though keeps you warm. It also brought home the idea of dragging your own cross up a hill to your death…. so it serves its purpose. Every step of the way is blessed with the most amazing views of the town and at the top, the vista is amazing.

 

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Stations of the Cross

 

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Of course, the Chapel and the bell tower were both securely locked an inaccessible. But honestly I wasn’t there for them. I got out my diving rods and started hunting for the energy center. It wasn’t at the bell tower as many websites suggest but actually a bit further behind it and the Chapel. We sat for a while taking in the peace, the energy, and the amazing views. I meditated there for a while but then resumed my search. I soon discovered a rock outcrop in the middle of a shallow depression on the edge of the hill. My rods crossed over the stones whichever way I approached them and I was soon sat on the shiny surface of the rock. I could feel the pulsating beat of the Earth’s heart.

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Chapel and Bell Tower

It was then that I noticed that the stones seemed to crop out in the center of a circular depression. Was I imagining it? The back of the circle seemed to be natural outcrop but as it turned around in front of the stones, it seemed to me there was deliberately placed rocks. The more I looked and examined with my Geologist’s hat on, it seemed to me there was a circle here with the stone and center of the energy in the center of the circle. I couldn’t convince my companion though.

I again meditated and engaged in some mental ritual. I was rewarded with images of swords – an image that I used to see in my late teens and early twenties and one that I physically saw on the Island of Eigg in Scotland (story is recounted in Inner Journeys: Explorations of the Soul). I was amazed and surprised by these images which were vivid and full color. It seemed to me that the sword represented a calling of some kind – an idea I explored in meditation for a while. I then beckoned for my companion to come down from the seat she had sat on to bask in the energy and views and to come to the center of the energies. She was a bit doubting to say the least until she too sat on that rock.

When you find this sort of a place and this sort of energy, you never want to leave. You could be content to stay there snuggled up in Mother Earth’s pulsating energy forever if allowed. There is power there. I wanted to see where the energy went – I was expecting a line you see. But, starting from the stone – the center – the rod sent me in a circular motion around and out from the rocks – a sort of Fibonacci curve shape! I shared this with my companion who remains a tad skeptical of dowsing and energies in general. No matter which way I looked at it, this energy was not a line going from one pole to the other but a vortex with a spiral shape around it. At this point, I was getting some funny looks from other folks on the Hill – it was really busy! – and so I decided to sit again and take it all in.

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The Energy Rock

 

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Part of the ‘circle’ with energy rock in the center…

Eventually, we ran out of time and needed to make the descent again but vowing to return. I had found what I was seeking – real Earth energies and I had connected with it and seen images and gained guidance that would, since it is reputed to be a healing energy, give me a troubled night…..I won’t go into what form that took but by morning, I realized that I had faced something I had found shameful in my past and finally recognized it as an issue and started on resolving it. It was a healing. My companion told me that she had now the energy to start her week at a challenging job.

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Part of the ‘circle’

 

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View from the top

We had one quick stop to make – a quick recce for another trip perhaps and more of that in the next installment.

In the evening and alone, I was able to google for information on the hill. I was particularly interested in whether my impressions of the stones as the center of the energies was correct and whether there was a circle of power there. The first thing I did was go to Google Maps in Earth mode and zero in on those rocks and there it was – a near perfect circle around the rocks just as I had seen there….. I am convinced there is something there of a more ancient nature. I then stumbled upon a blog of a Czech person who highlighted mineral deposits around the country and had visited the Hill in search of Calcite crystals. He had taken a pendulum and he remarked at the strong Earth energies and how his pendulum had gone crazy – not by the bell tower – but on top of a small rocky outcrop. Could it be? Yes – there was a photo there with him, pendulum and smile sitting atop the very same rocks. Validation?

 

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Google Maps – circle and central energy rocks…

 

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Holy Hill has a very stable vital potential for relaxation, meditation and recharge.
Some places can be detected and called as “force”, the pendulum can go crazy, even the hard well.
It is not in vain that various healing meditations and personal energies are often done here, but also in nearby Klentnice.
Some of these special places use “local portals and better connectivity” to cosmic energies.
The local subsoil and the overall layout offer unique, very pleasant energies.
Try to lean above and meditate on this flat stone, that’s something! Taken from – http://www.kameny-krajina.cz/lokality...

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