Hello and welcome to 5 minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and you join me on day 39 of my pilgrimage as I follow the Mary and Michael energy currents from Cornwall in the southwest of England all the way to Norfolk which is in the east of England and this is day 39 and today I've crossed into another county,
Cambridgeshire and I'm just about a mile away from my finish point at Iccleton and today as I pause here beside a road in a field and I can see on the telegraph wires a few crows settled and as I turn around I can see and you might be able to hear the hum of and the drone of the M11 which I'm just about to cross over on a road bridge and today I have been following from a place called Sandon in Hertfordshire the Michael energy current and the Michael energy current apparently follows a very ancient path it's called the Icknealed Way and for much of my day today probably about 60-70% of my day I have been on the Icknealed Way and the Icknealed Way is a really ancient route across England it's pre-Roman so if you imagine that the Romans were here 2000 years ago the Icknealed Way predates the Romans so it's a really ancient ancient route and I've really enjoyed that feeling of treading and being on a path that countless people over the centuries have trod before it's it just feels it feels like a connection to the past and much of it I was on my own I was walking along pathways through arable land it was very very quiet I went through a place called Royston where there's a node point that's where the Michael and Mary energy currents cross over I wasn't actually able to visit exactly where they cross over but I was able to stand nearby and I love this sense of history that's what I'm really getting from today and I've paused beside the M11 and the motorways here in England are very fast roads and it just feels like quite a good juxtaposition really against the modern form of transport which is very fast to the ancient form of transport which would have just been by foot or I guess by horse and my reflection just as I'm about to cross over this motorway is it's just a reflection really is how much have we learned how much have we learned over the years that's truly useful to know there are things that have improved for sure the speed of transport for example and there are things that have been completely lost as I was walking along and I noticed the plants I mean I know how to identify them I can use an app on my phone but I don't know the plants I don't know whether they're good to eat or whether they have health benefits or whether they're poisonous I feel as though in some ways I know so much I can look up so much on the internet I can find out so much and yet deeply I know or understand so little and that really is my reflection today it's considering and again I'm not being judgmental because there's much of this modern life that I really appreciate but I do wonder what we've lost and my question is is it possible to reclaim that which is nourishing from the ancient people that walked on this land and to rediscover and reconnect with something and can we at the same time drop and lose and find a different way of engaging with the natural world that means that we can still live in a modern way of life but the emphasis is on respect and relationship with the land so I guess the question it's not not that I'm looking for an answer just to reflect on is what have we lost what have we gained and how can we bring the best of the old and new together to forge a different future
