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Painted Rock: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California - an article by Christine Rhone. The power and the peace of the vast Carrizo Plain extend like the surface of a sacred drum. The largest single native grassland that remains in California, it stretches fifty miles in the southern San Joaquin Valley between the Caliente and the Tremblor Mountains, rising to 5,000 and 4,000 feet high respectively. Bisecting the plain lengthwise is the San Andreas Fault, clearly visible in some places. It is home to the reintroduced, ancient Pronghorn antelope, the swiftest land mammal in the New World, running soundlessly up to sixty miles per hour with the brilliant freedom of the wind. Read more... The Pythagorean Triangle - an article by Patrick Graucob, illustrated by Joyce Hargreaves The triangle was held in especial reverence by the ancient schools as a development of the principles involved in Number and as a method of displaying some of the inner teachings...The elegance of the Pythagorean theorem conceals the profound learning of the Pythagorean school. The all-too-brief disclosure of some of the relationships given within the Pythagorean Triangle should be taken as an indication of the teachings which are associated with it... Read more... The Triangular Lodge at Rushton, near Kettering, Northants - an article by Patrick Macdermott. The Triangular Lodge at Rushton, near Kettering, Northants is a three-walled Elizabethan building in the shape of an equilateral triangle, based on the mathematical power of 3, with much symbolic carving and ornament, designed by Thomas Tresham and built in 1593... In many ways the Lodge has all the primary requirements found in esoteric or mystery schools as well as some Masonic Lodges... Read more... The Grooved Ware People - an article by John Ivory. The Grooved Ware people were so named after the design of their pots with grooved designs on them; they began a Neolithic period ending the so called Stone Age. They were a Megalithic people, the word “Megalithic” means massive stones; they had no real writing so we know very little about them. Except for the large stone buildings and a form of proto writing, they left very little else behind. They lived in Northern Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France, Northern Spain, Malta and parts of Northern Africa; they left vaulted buildings such as Maes Howe and Skara Brae in Orkney, the huge chambered buildings at New Grange in Ireland, parts of Stonehenge and Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales and Baroliod Yr Graws in North West Wales. Read more... The Round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton - an article by Patrick Macdermott. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton town is probably the best preserved of only four remaining circular or “Round” churches still in use in England and boasts the earliest of these crusading foundations as July 1099 AD, the very month and year when the 1st Crusade occupied Jerusalem. Other similar churches are to be found in Cambridge, in London, (off Fleet street, Temple church) and the tiny church of St John the Baptist near Halstead in Essex. Read more... Rediscovering the Cathars and their Relevance to the surge of Materialism in the Twenty-First Century - an article by Margaret, Viscountess Long. Margaret, Viscountess Long, one of Dr Arthur Guirdham’s closest friends during the last years of his life, when his research on the Cathars had moved from practical, historical evidence to a much deeper understanding of its philosophy, writes about Arthur Guirdham, Oxford scholar, doctor of medicine, a psychiatrist, scientist, philosopher, poet, writer and wit, and his studies, insights and books concerning the Cathars - also known as the Albigensians - which led him to his role as a world authority of the Cathars in thirteenth century France... Read more... Interviews Mita Radhakrishnan on the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis RILKO Interview by Christine Rhone Dr. Alfred Tomatis (1920-2001) was an internationally known French inventor and physician specializing in the ear, nose, and throat – an otolaryngologist. In his own words, “a doctor with a passion for psychology”,he opened up a new field in alternative medicine, which he named audio-psycho-phonology, devoting his life to exploring sound as a force for physical and psychological development. The entry point for his pioneering work was the interface between listening and speaking. The recipient of many professional awards and honours in later life, he was an indefatigable researcher, an author, and the unrecognized inventor of the ultrasound machine. His unique approach and method are applicable both to treating illness or disability, and to enhancing wellness and ability. Thus, Tomatis therapy aims to help people dealing with difficulties in behaviour, development, or speech and those wanting to learn a foreign language or improve their singing. Read more The late John Michell on 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?' RILKO Interview by Christine Rhone William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the most revered dramatist of the English language, is arguably the most iconic author on earth, as English continues to spread world-wide as a lingua franca. Teaching English to speakers of other languages and tourism represent a significant portion of the British GNP. Stratford-upon-Avon, enshrined as Shakespeare's Birthplace, remains a major item on the cultural itinerary. John Michell, professor emeritus and a founder member of RILKO, began writing in 1967. He is the distinguished author of more than twenty books on philosophy, sacred number, landscape geometry, Fortean phenomena and other high mysteries. The Washington Post called his 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?' of 1996 'The best overview yet of the authorship controversy.' Read more... Book Reviews Royston Cave - Used by Saints or Sinners? by Sylvia P. Beamon MA (Cantab) Published by the Temple Publications 2009
(Published in 2010 by Alternative Albion; an imprint of Heart of Albion Press) £12.95 - pp127 - ISBN 978-1-905646-16-6
The Portal, An Initiate’s Journey into the Secrets of Rennes-le-Château. by Patrice Chaplin. (Quest Books 2010.) Patrice Chaplin, writer and playwright, has written twenty-eight books; her novel Siesta became a film starring Jodie Foster and Isabella Rossellini. Notably a two part biography of Modigliani’s mistress: ‘Into the Darkness Laughing.’ written in 1992 was made into a stage play in conjunction with Radio 3. She describes how the intense research she undertook for this prepared the way for the three books she has most recently written which have a metaphysical background. ‘The Portal’ is the third and latest of these three books which move the focus of the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château southwards across the Pyrenees to the ancient Catalan town of Gerona in Spain. In these an increasing series of references emerges disclosing the true destination of the priest, Bérenger Saunière on the many mysterious trips he was reported to have taken when he disappeared from Rennes-le-Château at regular intervals. Click Here to view/buy The Portal by Patrice Chaplin on the RILKO Books page |
