Gatekeeper Trust
Weekend Conference

Towards 2012 - The Enchantment of Olympic London

AN INTRODUCTION TO LONDON’S SACRED ROOTS

~ The first of a series of conferences exploring Sacred London ~

6-7 December 2008
Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road,
Barons Court, London, England
(10:00 am - 5:00 pm)

with
Peter Dawkins, Anthony Thorley, Louise Coe & Aidan Dun

London – a ‘Dragon City’ – has deep and complex traditions of myth, legend and history, overlaying a magical and sacred landscape with many power points and sacred sites, and layered with the synchronicity of contemporary events such as the Olympic Games of 2012.

Also, to many people 2012 reflects the changing consciousness of our times, with the date mentioned in Mayan and many other spiritual traditions.

Peter Dawkins will speak about London in the context of the British Landscape Zodiac and Galactic Centre, and its crucial importance at this time in the Planetary Great Age, particularly in the context of 2012 and the London Olympics. He will further speak about the legendary history, mythology and on-going tradition of the City of London, with regard to its layout and use as a landscape temple and ‘holy city’ from Celtic times to the present day.

Anthony Thorley will provide an overview of the importance of London in time and place, and the sacred patterns within its history and its landscape, and give a more detailed explanation of a key alignment in the City of London from Leadenhall Markets to St Pauls, passing through Wren Churches, crossing the valley of the Fleet and on to the Ludgate. He will also share his discoveries concerning Evelyn and Wren’s London and the thwarted “Masonic” plan for a “perfect” New Jerusalem after the Fire, with its relocation into Bath in the early 18th Century by the Masonic and Jacobite families in order to establish Bath as a celestial city its own right.

Louise Coe will talk about the importance of London’s rivers, the Fleet and Thames, and explore our relationship to water, the ancient water rituals that survive in all cultures to this day, and why water is thought to be the source of our awakening.

Aidan Dun, poet of Kings Cross, will be talking about the sacred landscape of London, St Pancras, and the mythology of the sunchild, Pancras. Aidan will also be speaking his poetry and playing music, creating with us the dream of a metropolis that is revisioning itself as a centre of transcultural unity.

Cost
£75 per person

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