Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott and you join me on day eight of the pilgrimage where I'm walking the energy currents,
The Mary and Michael energy currents across the UK and today I'm in Liskard.
I'm not actually walking through Liskard but this is where I'm staying and I'm in the car park.
It's not very glamorous if I'm honest.
I'm beside a roundabout.
The busy A38 is not far away.
I can hear the rather reassuring chatter of sparrows which I do love to hear.
I love the sparrows that live in the hedgerows here and I'm just reflecting on the day and it was a pretty special day actually.
A day that started in St Austell.
So I started by the church which is where I left off yesterday and the first significant place I visited was something called Menor Cuddle Well and this was just about a mile outside of St Austell but my goodness it was this ancient,
Ancient feel of a spot.
There was this very small granite building that was covered in moss.
It was like a structure that protected the well and the well itself was beside a river.
There was a little waterfall beside it and as I walked into this building which was thick with green moss and dripping wet there was a very small pool of water and this was actually where the Michael energy current goes through and it's interesting because I've not yet knowingly come across the Michael energy current.
I've been following the Mary current most of the way so far so it really felt good to to say hello and to to greet the Michael energy current and the place itself was so peaceful.
It was it was like stepping into a different era.
It was like going back in time.
There was an ancient quality to it and the countryside in England used to be quite literally littered with these wells.
They were spiritual places often attributed to Saints and there's a real sense that those wells were holy in their own right before Christianity so it's a place where people have been and engaged with the waters there for thousands and thousands of years most likely and I really got that sense of the ancientness of it.
It felt really special and it just struck me in the life that I lead how little time I spend in times of meditation and contemplation.
I mean the pilgrimage is a way for me to do that but I wonder if in times of old whether the spirituality,
The veil between the physical and the spiritual in our lives was very thin and it was almost indistinguishable.
Nowadays if I engage in something that feels meditative or spiritual I'm making a real effort to go and engage and I have this sense that we've lost something.
We've lost this everydayness of spirituality where we see the reverence and the holiness in the landscape around us and it struck me even more when I walked through what's called the clay country in Cornwall.
It's a part of Cornwall that's been used for China clay extractions and there are huge big waste heaps of old mine works that litter the landscape and really scar the landscape and it was such a contrast for me to feel that once maybe we had a real reverence for the sacredness of the land and yet now it feels as though the land is a resource that we just use and we don't care about.
So that was my reflection today and maybe it's a little bit sad but I'm hoping that this pilgrimage is just reawakening within me that reverence to the landscape.
