A vividly visual promotional glimpse into a unique new book, revealing a neglected side of the story of modern Glastonbury, the mystical capital if Britain. Please note: these images are not part of the book itself but illustrative of its contents.
3. From the back cover ----
The Glastonbury Zodiac and Earth Mysteries UFOlogy
is a unique exploration of a visionary realm that helped to
shape the modern development of the mystical capital of
Britain. It shows the influence of ideas concerning Atlantis
and Ancient Astronauts during the heady days of the sixties
and seventies and places them alongside ley lines and the
landscape zodiac.
4. Includes:
remarkable previously untold UFO experience of
author Anthony Roberts and the huge unpublished
book it inspired.
Atlantis of the Heart. From Dion Fortune to space
migration.
Psychedelic sixties UFOlogy. Flying Saucer Vision
and Warminster, David Bowie’s Free Festival.
Andrew Collins journey from Glastonbury to a Giza
cave discovery and the Morphian mystery.
5. Complete survey of work of American visionary
Robert Coon relating to the Glastonbury Zodiac,
global chakra sites, the Omega Point, and the 1987
Mesoamerican calendar events.
The Contact conundrum, aliens and entities, Secret
Chiefs and beams of light, Fairies and
Ultraterrestrials, Dark Gods, and Virgin Mary
apparitions.
6. UFOlogical theorists and eccentrics:
John Foster Forbes, Meade Layne , Desmond
Leslie, George Adamski, Trevor James
Constable, Brinsley le Poer Trench, Tony Wedd,
Jacques Vallee, John Keel, Elizabeth Van
Buren.
7. The Glastonbury Temple of the Stars:
Katharine Maltwood, Mary Caine, Oliver
Reiser: from Blavatsky to Arthur’s Round Table,
wandering Sumerians, Atlanteans and aliens, the
head of Christ, and the morphogenetic field pattern
for the embryogenesis of the World Sensorium!
11. The modern revival was massively stimulated
by the 1971 music festival, filmed as
Glastonbury Fayre.
12. Sixties and seventies psychedelic Glastonbury
was heavily inspired by ideas about UFOs.
13. The previously unpublished UFO experience of
author Anthony Roberts enhances our
understanding of the study of Glastonbury
Earth Mysteries UFOlogy.
14. The theories of mystic sculptress Katharine Maltwood
concerning the existence of landscape zodiacal effigies
around Glastonbury became associated with UFOs.
16. Dion Fortune wondered if the slopes of the Tor
were sculpted to resemble an Atlantean temple
prototype?
17. Desmond Leslie was
related to Winston
Churchill.
Brought up in a
thoroughly haunted
castle home, Leslie
went on to such
varied activities as
wartime spitfire
pilot and pioneer of
experimental
electronic music.
18. It was an experience in 1934, when a child in
boarding school, that would lead to his greatest
passion. His dormitory had been suddenly lit at night
by an ‘immense green fireball’ that had generated
considerable excitement amongst those present.
19. Leslie co-authored the
most important and
influential book of the
early UFO era.
Flying Saucers Have
Landed was published
in 1953 and was a
huge success.
21. That modern favourite of the Ancient Aliens TV show, the
Vimanas, apparent flying craft mentioned in old Hindu texts,
were investigated by Leslie.
22. Annie Besant and CW Leadbetter referred to
‘Brahmin Tables’ in their Man, Where,
Whence and Whither, telling how
18,618,793 years ago we experienced
contact from Venus.
23. Sanat Kumara became Lord of the
World and established a base in
Shambhala. This concept has been
present amongst most of the more
well-known New Age teachers from that
point onwards.
24. ‘Then with the mighty roar of swift descent from incalculable heights,
surrounded by blazing masses of fire which filled the sky with shooting
tongues of flame, the vessel of the Lords of the Flame flashed through
the aerial spaces. It halted over the White Island which lay in the Gobi
Sea.’
Besant & Leadbetter.
25. Co-author George
Adamski is an
enduringly
controversial figure,
reviled as a fraud by
some but still
accepted by others.
26. Adamski claimed to have encountered a Venusian
craft and its occupant in the Mojave desert in
1952. Some legendary much-discussed photos were
taken.
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29. John Michell said of Adamski
that ‘He was an impressive
old rogue, like Madame
Blavatsky and in the same
tradition. Such people,
according to Plato, are the
kind whom the gods choose
to enlighten us.’
30. In the 1962 Men Among Mankind, Brinsley le Poer
Trench wrote that the Glastonbury Zodiac had been
constructed by Atlanteans with help from aliens. It
was the most sacred site on the planet and the
inspiration behind the pyramids.
31. ‘All things begin and end in Albion’s ancient Druid rocky shore.’
William Blake.
32. ‘If, as we are told, the Age of Aquarius is to be the age of
the Regeneration of Man, it is to Glastonbury and to the
Temple of the Stars that we must look for information
regarding our immediate future.’ Trench. 1962.
Michael Mathias
35. In 1967, the year of flower power and Sgt Pepper, Glastonbury was
linked with the UFO mystery in John Michell’s first book.
36. ‘Whether or not some great sculpted message to the sky gods
does lie below Glastonbury Tor, as Miss Maltwood describes,
there is no doubt that the whole area was particularly sacred
to the early flying saucer cult.’
John Michell. The Flying Saucer Vision
37. ‘From Glastonbury Tor men left earth to join the Gods’.
The Flying Saucer Vision. John Michell.
38. On July 1st 1967, at the peak of the Summer of Love, visionary
Robert Coon was living in Boulder, Colorado when he had an
extraordinary experience.
39. ‘a Physically Immortal human from the Realm of
Shambhalla instantly and fully materialised within
my room. He was not a shimmering vision, but rather
a rock solid, Clear human being as real as you or me.
40. This man wore a white robe, held a wooden staff
in one hand, had long white hair and beard. -----
He was the Prophet Elijah, who has apparently also
manifested as Merlin, Hermes Trismegistus, and
Enoch.
41. An enormous cosmic download was communicated
that was to be released to the world in
astrologically determined stages over the coming
decades until 1993.
42. What rapidly developed was a vision of the birth of
the Aquarian Age from a location in Southern
England. The “global heart chakra” would open there
and an “Omega Point” be activated.
43. Within a few months Robert had narrowed it down to
the specific location of Glastonbury, a place that he
had never visited. The big event there was scheduled
for 1984, 17 years in the future.
44. 1969 was a big year for
growing awareness of
Glastonbury, ley lines,
and ancient mysteries
in general.
45. Summer of ‘69. Moon landing, Manson murders, and Woodstock,
within a month.
46. “We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw machines of every
shape and size. We talked with tall Venusians passing through.”
David Bowie’s free festival. August 1969.
47. Anthony Roberts came to
the Avalonian mythos from a
background of anarchistic
activism.
As an advocate of the CND
cause he broke into an
American airbase as far back
as 1963 in an attempt to
disable some of the planes.
Anthony Roberts in 1964
48. He and his wife Janet met through campaigning against the
imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. He was repeatedly arrested at
political protests and attained maximum street credibility by
starting a fire in the foyer of the Dorchester Hotel as a statement
against capitalism.
49. Anthony Roberts in 1968. A year later he would have
the most important experience of his life.
50. ‘While driving with my wife one evening during the Autumn of 1969, we
were shown both a vision and a sign in the sky. ---- It was not quite dark,
the air was very clear, and there was as yet no trace of the moon. At the
same time both my wife and I saw a huge, white disc shining in the sky
in the middle distance ahead of us.
51. It was about the size of a very large grapefruit and as we slowed down
to watch, its colour changed slightly to silvery gold with faint tinges of
orange fire playing around the extreme edges. We slowed our car still
more, and as we watched we saw a string of small, glowing discs
appear on the left hand side of the larger one; they flickered and
twinkled with a pearly and opalescent glow, faintly mauve and very
beautiful. After lining up in a perfectly straight formation, they
gradually merged one by one into the larger disc.
52. The previously unpublished full account of this experience is featured
in The Glastonbury Zodiac and Earth Mysteries UFOlogy.
53. Tony Roberts went on to write a huge manuscript full of lost
continents, ancient astronauts, and the Glastonbury Zodiac.
54. Tony Roberts
with his still-
unpublished
home-
produced
Giants in the
Earth in 1971.
56. This book also owed
much to the original
mother-lode.
Most of Giants in
the Earth remains
unpublished.
57. If Giants in the Earth had been published in the
early seventies, it would have sat alongside a large
number of ancient astronaut works and made the
link between Glastonbury and UFO mythology far
stronger.
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61. The anthology Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem
does not deal with UFOlogy but would probably never have
existed without editor Tony Roberts 1969 experience.
Initially published in 1976, the 1977 edition, featuring an
Afterword by Colin Wilson is better known.
It marked the peak of acceptance of the idea of the
Glastonbury Zodiac.
63. 1977 was a damn strange year in Britain.
Remembered in popular culture for punk rock, there
were a lot of echoes of 1967 flowing through it as
well.
The two years shared an above-average number of
UFO reports and it seems in retrospect that there
was almost a final flourishing of books and artefacts
of popular culture that carried the sixties
inspiration.
64. ‘In seventy-seven the light shone from our hearts and from our eyes.
We looked into the ethers and we saw that they were very much alive.
The saucers were teaching us to find a higher energy
To put a twinkle in our mind's eye, so we can rise and be all that we
can be.’
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67. ‘The revolutionary revival of Albion’s true spirit will be the precursor of
a New Age and that apocalyptic revival will spring from the eternally
universal fountain head that is Glastonbury. The Day draws nearer’.
Anthony Roberts. Glastonbury: Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem.
68. During the late seventies, paranoia spread through UFOlogy,
leaving many convinced that the phenomenon was evil.
69. The 1980 Dark Gods was a
paranoid classic, finding
demonic influence in almost
the entire field of occultism,
Earth Mysteries, and UFOlogy.
Its mood was considerably
different to Tony Roberts’
earlier work.
70. Ley lines and landscape
zodiacs were getting
quite a bashing in the
eighties as well. Many of
the criticisms were
justified.
71. Robert Coon publicised his Earth Chakra ideas and
believed that the Global Omega Point was activated at
Glastonbury in 1984.
72. Andrew Collins unprecedented Glastonbury psychic
quest between 1983-85 brought together medieval
knights, sacred geometry, and a connection to Egypt,
and, in particular, the Giza plateau and the mystery
of what may lie beneath it.
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74. A painting by psychic
Bernard G depicting
some of the medieval
material in the
Temple of the Stars
psychic quest.
75. Andrew Collins
psychic assault
course experience in
the Glastonbury
Temple of the Stars
would lead him to
his astonishing
adventures on the
Giza plateau.
76. Andrew Collins
Glastonbury Giza quest is
featured in The
Glastonbury Zodiac and
Earth Mysteries UFOlogy.
The fullest account so far
in print is in Avalonian
Aeon, which includes the
authors own experiences
with the same material.