The Spiritual Traveler: England, Scotland, Wales : the Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes in Britain

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Hidden Spring, 2000 - 317
Includes Tips for Overnight Lodging in Monasteries, Abbeys and Spiritual Centers (in Places of Peace and Rest). The Spiritual Traveler: England, Scotland, Wales is a unique guide book. It takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and soaring cathedrals, Eastern temples, abbey ruins, sacred cities, holy wells and rivers, ancient yew trees and monastery gardens. The Spiritual Traveler reveals the stories behind these extraordinary places of spiritual power, and offers thirteen pilgrim routes by car, bike or foot, including: - the path of the Celts from Iona to Lindisfarne; - the ancient Saints' Way in North Wales; - a multi-faith pilgrimage to Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, Quaker meeting houses, Hindu temples and Buddhist shrines; - the Pilgrims' Way from London to Canterbury; - the powerful route of women mystics from Ely to Walsingham; - in search of King Arthur from Glastonbury to Tintagel; - the Road of Stones from Stonehenge to Avebury. +

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The History of the Land
2
THE SACRED LANDSCAPE
15
Stone Circles and Tombs
16
Wells
35
Sacred Cities
46
Sacred Plant and Animal Life
60
PILGRIM ROUTES THROUGH SACRED BRITAIN
73
ENGLAND
78
Stonehenge to Glastonbury
177
St Michaels Mount to Tintagel
193
WALES
201
Llandaff to St Davids
217
SCOTLAND
231
A Multifaith Pilgrimage
260
Places to Stay Along the Way
285
BIBLIOGRAPHY
294

Ely to Walsingham
103
Lincoln to Crowland
118
Lichfield to Mam Tor
132
Ripon to Jarrow
141
Cartmel to Aspatria
158
Worcester to DorchesteronThames
164
GENERAL INDEX
295
INDEX OF PLACES
300
CREDITS
304
MAPS OF SACRED BRITAIN
306
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Strona 111 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Strona 226 - THE earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Strona 112 - And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he...
Strona 90 - But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave. For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.
Strona 53 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Strona xi - If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion.
Strona 158 - He sang the creation of the world, the origin of man, and all the history of Genesis: and made many verses on the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and their entering into the land of promise, with many other histories from holy writ...
Strona 200 - From dust I rise, And out of nothing now awake; These brighter regions which salute mine eyes A gift from God I take. The earth, the seas, the light, the day, the skies, The sun and stars are mine; if those I prize.

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