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Wisdom in the Land: Birthing the Light of the Shakespeare Swan
2022-07-02 | The White Swan Hotel, Rother St, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV32 6NH, United Kingdom
A day with Peter and Sarah Dawkins in Stratford-upon-Avon
Based at The White Swan in Stratford the day will comprise morning talks followed by a pilgrimage in Stratford townscape exploring and experiencing the wisdom of this land.
Stratford-upon-Avon, home of William Shakespeare and the Shakespeare theatres, marks the star Deneb in the constellation of the Swan in the British landscape zodiac. Underlying this is a profound and ancient wisdom.
Moreover, it is a wisdom that manifests itself in the landscape and the way human beings have responded instinctively, intuitively or knowingly to that wisdom, such that the very townscape as well as the land manifests that wisdom.
Do join us to learn, explore and experience more of this wisdom, and to help the land birth even more of its light. This special pilgrims’ day is limited to the first 20 participants.
For further information, go to: Gatekeeper Trust

Celebrating Ceridwen's Cauldron of Poetic Inspiration
2022-06-24 18:00 - 2022-06-26 18:00 (Europe/London) | The Queens Hotel, The Promenade, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HG, United Kingdom
A Midsummer weekend in Penwith, Cornwall, led by Peter & Sarah Dawkins, and Swami Aliananda Paramahansa
This will be a weekend of celebrating the poetic inspiration of the land in beautiful Penwith, the western end of Cornwall and root chakra of the Three Lands (Scotland-Ireland-Britain) of the British Isles. Ceridwen’s cauldron is symbolic of the land, and is a holy grail whose magical contents inspire those who drink of it with poetry, prophecy, vision, beauty, wisdom and knowledge, which is enlightenment. The Celts called this Awen.
The great goddess of these Three Lands was known to the Celts as the Triple Goddess, Ceridwen. Her nine maidens or attendants breathe on the fire beneath the cauldron so as to keep the brew at the right temperature. The root chakra of the British Isles is a prime position for breathing on this fire, which lies beneath the cauldron, to help the land become beautiful and those within it, who partake of its magical potion, to achieve Awen.
There is, of course, a deep wisdom, knowledge and underlying power in all this. We will explore this and the landscape with meditations, talks, teachings, kriya yoga breathing, Paneurhythmy, excursions to key geomantic and poetic areas of the landscape, and with anything else we are inspired with.
For further information, including cost and booking, see PDF: ‘Celebrating Ceridwen’s Cauldron of Poetic Inspiration’.

Exploring the Beauty of Portugal: The Central Pillar of Harmony and Bliss
2022-05-11 17:00 - 2022-05-19 17:00
A geomantic pilgrimage led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins, Jonathan Tod and Tara Donovan, travelling by coach up the spine of Portugal and visiting Faro, Beja, Evora, Avis, Proenca-a-Nova, Oleiros, Viseu, Lamego, Douro River, Montalegre, Lugo, Viveiro, and Bilbao on the northern coast of Galicia, Spain.
The purpose of this pilgrimage is to explore, learn about, enjoy and enhance the ‘Middle Pillar’ of a magical landscape temple in Portugal, which rises up through the centre of Portugal from Faro on the Algarve to Montalegre on the Portuguese border with Galicia in northern Spain. We will visit a series of important sites—beautiful landscapes and great buildings in special locations.
Europe takes its name from the classical myth of Europa and the Bull, and mainland Europe can be seen imaginatively as a ‘bull’ with the British Isles seated on its neck as ‘Europa’. Spain and Portugal are the ‘head of the bull’, with Portugal forming the ‘face of the bull’. Sintra, which is just north of Lisbon, has been known as ‘the Nose of Europe’ for centuries. The vital importance of this is that, as the wisdom teachings say, “Through the face is revealed the beauty of the heart,” but only if we help make it happen.
We are making this journey as a pilgrimage, in the sense of honouring the places by greeting, appreciating and enjoying them, their people and each other. We have two principles which we endeavour as a group to fulfil, which are to make the effort to love who we are with, wherever we are and whatever we are doing, and to do the right thing in the right place, at the right time, with the right intention. In this way we can enhance the places and the whole landscape temple, enthusing it with love and thereby helping to transform the energies into an ethereal fountain of light. In such ways, we help to build the light body of the planet.
In addition, by pilgrimaging in this way within the ‘face’ of the Bull of Europe, we can help Europe to metaphorically breathe its physical breath in conjunction with the more spiritual breath associated with the alta-major chakra that is represented by the British Isles (Europa). The two breaths, breathing in harmony, are what are needed.
For further information, including cost and booking, see PDF: ‘Exploring the Beauty of Portugal: The Central Pillar of Harmony and Bliss.’

The Swan Flight through the Seven Heavens of the Rosicrucian Mysteries: The Second Heaven
2022-04-22 18:00 - 2022-04-24 17:00
Zoom talks by Peter Dawkins, Heidemarie Falldorf and Oliver Falldorf, + visits in Germany to Herrenhausen Great Garden, Hanover, and the Hinüberscher Masonic Garden, Marienwerder, led by Oliver and Heidemarie Falldorf, + visits in England to the Rollright Stone Circle and Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins.
2022 is the third year of a 12-year ‘end of time’ period (2020-2031), referred to as the Jupiter-Kalki-Kali cycle, in which the world is being severely tested, so as to bring about a repentance sufficient for divine mercy or grace to rescue human hearts, minds and souls. During this time it is possible for human consciousness to be raised an octave, note by note, so as to be suitably inspired to do the right things, the things that are needed to build a better world.
To help this process, we are enacting a mystery in the landscape of Europe, the throat chakra of the world, in which the ‘Swan’ landscape temple of mainland Europe plays a key role. As the Swan flies (metaphorically) higher and higher, it sounds the creative Word. This is the ‘Swan Flight’ and ‘Swan Song’.
The octave consists of seven full notes and five half-notes. Each full note is a level of the metaphorical/metaphysical ‘Pyramid’ that is being raised on the ‘Foundation Stone’ of the Exterland Zodiac, a landscape zodiac centred on the Externsteine that functions as the throat chakra of the Swan of Europe. The raising of the Pyramid symbolises the flight of the Swan, which in turn is associated with the landscape stretching between the Exterland Zodiac and the area of Schleswig, the alta-major chakra of the Swan of Europe.
The octave began in 2020 with the half-note E♭. Last year (2021) sounded the first full note (E). This year (2022) sounds the second full note (F), associated with the second level of the Pyramid and second heaven of human consciousness. This ‘Swan Flight’ weekend event of Zoom talks and site visits celebrates this second level, with visits to meaningful sites in the landscape and the historical Rosicrucian movement that prepared the way for what is happening now.
In the European Mystery story, the Swan is born as a result of the love affair of Europa and the Bull, who are represented in the landscape by the British Isles (Europa) and mainland Europe (Bull). The Europa and Bull myth is the Dionysian myth, wherein the bull calf, child of its parents, is attacked by Titanic forces and torn apart, but with its heart rescued by Pallas Athena and raised to become the Swan, Dionysus. Europe is acting out this myth right now.
Further Information (PDF English) (PDF German)

Exploring the Beauty of Portugal: The Joy of Paneurhythmy
2022-03-23 16:00 - 2022-03-28 11:00 | Casa Fuzetta, Casa Fuzetta, Travessa Heliodoro Salgado 7,, Olhao, Algarve, 8700-132, Portugal
A 5-day retreat in the Algarve of Portugal, the purpose of which is to learn into the movements and joy of Paneurhythmy and to enjoy the friendship of retreat in magical surroundings. This special retreat will be hosted by Jonathan & Tara (owners of Casa Fuzetta), who will welcome their great friend Sarah Dawkins to share the magic of Paneurhythmy. Sarah has been dancing and teaching Paneurhythmy for over 30 years. Paneurhythmy is a sacred dance brought into the world in the late 19th century by a great Bulgarian Master, Beinsa Douno, who was ‘given’ the music, dance, movements and prayers over the course of his life. Underlying Paneurhythmy is a profound wisdom.
Find out more about the event (pdf)

Paneurhythmy: a Living Circle of Beauty, Harmony and Unity with Nature
2021-07-30 11:00 - 12:00
A talk on Zoom by Sarah Dawkins for Fintry Trust.
Paneurhythmy is a joyful, meditational exercise-dance originating in the Rila Mountains of Bulgaria. It arose from the work of the great spiritual teacher Beinsa Douno.
The word Paneurhythmy means ‘Supreme Cosmic Rhythm’. It is a profound way to connect to Nature and to harmonise and balance our subtle nature within.
Sarah will explore and expand on these themes in her talk on Paneurhythmy as a living circle of Beauty, Harmony and Unity with nature.
Book online on the Fintry Trust website. Please click for further details.

The Swan Flight through the Seven Heavens of the Rosicrucian Mysteries: The First Heaven
2021-07-24 09:00 - 2021-07-25 18:30
Zoom talks by Peter Dawkins and Heidemarie Falldorf.
Visits to Bückeburg Castle and Park, and the Mausoleum of Prince Ernst in Stadthagen, Germany, led by Oliver and Heidemarie Falldorf.
Exploring the first level of the Swan Pyramid built on the foundation of the Exterland Zodiac.
After many years of work in the Exterland Zodiac in Germany, which marks the throat chakra of the Swan landscape temple of Europe, the foundation was built and the four cornerstones laid, ready for building etherically a seven-stepped pyramid of light—a pyramid that is also associated with the landscape stretching from the Swan’s throat chakra (the Exterland Zodiac) to the Swan’s alta-major chakra focused on Schleswig (Gottorf Castle).
The seven steps of this etheric pyramid signify the Seven Heavens of soul consciousness which we can reach in this life or after we die. The Greater Mysteries, also known as the Rosicrucian Mysteries, are connected to this pyramid and with the building of what is known as the light-body or celestial body, which is our mortal psyche transmuted into an immortal soul. The Swan represents this celestial form of being, which can and does sing the Word of Truth. The Dionysian myth recounts this story as an allegory, in which the mortal Bull becomes the immortal Swan.
In the 12-year ‘Kali-Kalki’ cycle, 2020-2031—a great challenge and initiation for the whole world—we will play our part by helping to raise the vibration an octave, note by note, while circling the Exterland landscape zodiac and building the Pyramid. This is the ‘Swan Flight’ and ‘Swan Song’.
2021 marks the first level of the Pyramid and the first full note of the octave that begun in 2020 (E♭). This July 2021 weekend celebrates this first level and links it with the landscape and the historical Rosicrucian movement that prepared the way for what is happening now.
Exploring the land, its places and history will help us in this. We can discover that in former times people had known about all this and left traces for us to find and remember. For this, we will visit Bückeburg and Stadthagen and look for these traces of history, with Peter talking (via Zoom) about the connections and hidden meanings of these symbols not only for us individually but also for Europe and the whole world, and with Heidemarie giving us (via Zoom) some of the history of the people and places involved. As in all mysteries, we ourselves will be able to experience some of it—and, for those able to do this, actually visit the key sites led by Heidemarie and Oliver Falldorf.
Further Information (PDF-English)
Further Information (PDF-German)

Revelation & Celebration
2021-06-21 - 2021-06-25 | Schleswig, North Germany – Himmelbjerget, Jutland, Denmark – Jotunheimen Mountains, Norway
A Golden Child ‘Quantum’ Pilgrimage led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins.
The ‘Golden Child’ refers to the good or golden heart, both of humanity and of nature. The Golden Child pilgrimages are designed to act as a prayer, working with key power-points in nature and the archetypal wisdom in the Dionysian mythology, to help rescue, protect, strengthen and enable all good hearts everywhere to more fully open and manifest their inherent goodness.
Due to the coronavirus and ongoing restrictions to travel, etc., this Golden Child pilgrimage will take place as an on-line ‘quantum’ pilgrimage. The power-points in nature that we shall be focusing on are the alta-major, brow and crown chakras of the Swan landscape temple of Europe, located respectively at Schleswig in North Germany, the Himmelbjerget in Jutland, Denmark, and the Jotunheimen Mountains in Norway. When all three chakras are linked, the highest form of illumination takes place, which is not only revelatory but also celebratory and opens the Third Eye.
This event is fully booked.
