Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and I'm walking in the evening.
It's been a beautiful day,
You can probably hear the birds are fully singing behind me,
The sun has dipped behind the hill.
I'm in my village so you might hear the occasional car go by and I'm admiring the primroses and the hedgerows and the banks and the daffodils.
Wonderful sense of spring just about to erupt into life.
I've actually been up to Glastonbury today.
Glastonbury is in Somerset and it's well known throughout the world for being a spiritual centre.
I was being interviewed for a piece that's being filmed about the pilgrimage I walked last year and I was out on Bodmin Hall yesterday where it was a wild wet windy cold day with the mist came down and then today we were in Somerset and this was at Glastonbury and the sun was,
It wasn't shining,
There was still cloud but it was sunny,
It was dry.
We walked to the abbey and we walked then up Glastonbury Tor and stood and looked at the view.
What I was really taken by was the number of people that went to the abbey.
It's a ruined abbey and then the number of people that climbed up,
Up,
Up to the Tor,
Glastonbury Tor with its tower on top of it and both of these places are well known for being places that have a sense of spirituality about them.
The Mary energy current runs through the abbey and crosses with the Michael current at where would have been the high altar and that's the place you can still visit albeit that it is just a ruin of a place and Glastonbury Tor is a place where the Michael and Mary lines sort of weave up the Tor and the Michael current goes right through the top of the Tor itself and I was interested because the reporter who was with me was very curious about the wisdom of older women which is what attracted her to to talk to me about the walk I had done,
The pilgrimage and the learning I had taken from that pilgrimage last year,
630 miles walking across England following the energy currents,
The Michael and Mary line.
And even she,
I say even she,
I say that with the greatest respect but even she felt something,
She felt something spiritual and was surprised by it and I loved it that she was so open and authentic because my surprise was that as a reporter she's so used just to every day recording pieces and getting material out on air but here she was slowing down and feeling something and not being able to explain it.
As we climbed the Tor we bumped into somebody,
We bumped into lots of people but one lady in particular wanted to to pause and have a conversation and she came from America and she said I come I'm really embarrassed to say I'm American with what's going on in the world at the moment and we talked further and she explained how she was drawn to come to England,
Come to Glastonbury and to plug into the energy that she feels at Glastonbury,
The feeling of nourishment she feels at coming to this spiritual centre and place and I was just reminded of what we've forgotten when it comes to the nature of the energy of the land of the sacred places,
The revered places of times gone by.
It seems to me that as we have lost our connection with the land,
We've lost our connection to that deeper intelligence,
That natural intelligence and it hasn't gone anywhere,
It's still waiting to be heard and it's waiting for us to listen and connect with it once again.
So that's my reflection today is that just take time with the land,
Take time with nature as best as you can,
Take time and be with nature and see what nature wants to communicate to you.
I'd love to know what you make of this,
Connecting with the land and connecting with nature.
What does that mean to you?
Join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
I look forward to connecting with you again then.
