England #10: Glastonbury Day 2 -the Abbey & Past Lives in The England Chronicles - September 2024

(Friday September 13, 2024)

Friday was our final day in the Bath/Somerset area before heading to the Cotswolds. We were sad to be nearly done with our first week, but quite excited about the second one. And it looks like we managed to just have two coffee stops on this final Glastonbury day! We went by the Hub first thing and got coffees to go (cappuccino for me), then stopped by Finca in Glastonbury later on for delicious flat whites and ginger cake, which we enjoyed on the square:

This was an exciting day for Kim, as she’d booked an appointment with a past life regression therapist at the Pilgrims of the Goddess center. They use a specific technique called QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) that was developed by Dolores Cannon, a past life regression hypnotherapist who delved into an astonishing amount of mysterious mystical stuff, including aliens and crop circles, which I am fascinated with. Baker B has read quite a lot of her books, and kept urging Kim to do one of the regression sessions, as they are very helpful in understanding and working on relationship and health issues. 

I think my favorite thing about Dolores Cannon, though, is how she looked and sounded just exactly like the sweetest grandma ever. A grandma who is also an expert in past lives and aliens and hypnotherapy. Here’s a video of her talking about aliens etc  at the Red Lion pub in Avebury, where we have been numerous times. We’ve sat right there at those outside tables, gazing at the standing stones! Unfortunately it’s really hard to hear this video and the closed captioning is terrible, but it’s fun to see her hanging out at somewhere I adore.

It’s way too complicated to delve into here, but she and her work are so interesting and a QHHT session seemed like the perfect thing for Kim to do in Glastonbury. I would love to do a session too but didn’t feel like it was as urgent for me as it was for Kim. Perhaps because there are practitioners in Asheville, and what I really wanted to do in Glastonbury was to roam around Glastonbury! So we parted ways for a bit - Kim to be regressed into her past lives, and me to soak up the past in the Abbey ruins. 

Kim’s session lasted for three hours. And let me say right now that I love Kim, she’s been my BFF since we were in college, we’re excellent travel buddies and it was wonderful to get to spend so much time together. But…I was ready for some Alone Time. Some Quiet Time. Kim is chatty. Very very chatty. I’m not very chatty.  I needed a break from chattiness! So I was privately thrilled at the thought of three hours wandering around all by myself, at my own admittedly very speedy pace! 

First I went to Glastonbury Abbey. Well, to the ruins of the Abbey. It was founded in the 700s, destroyed in 1184 by a fire, then rebuilt. In 1191 the monks discovered - or claimed to discover - King Arthur and Guinevere’s tomb in the cemetery, which resulted in an influx of tourists and donations to the abbey. They’d been having trouble funding the rebuilding before that, so there’s speculation it was a publicity stunt, which I find both amusing and fascinating. Then the abbey was destroyed during Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the Abbot, Richard Whiting, was hung on the Tor as a traitor. So, it was a sad end for the monastery, but happily the astonishing ruins still remain.   

It’s impossible to describe, and pictures do not do it justice. It’s difficult to take in how enormous it was. I wandered around for ages. The grounds are about 30 acres, I think, so there’s lots of room to roam. You can even see the Tor from some spots!

After that I still had some time before Kim finished with her session, so I went back to the George Hotel & Pilgrams’ Inn and had a delicious Mena Dhu stout, while gazing at the gorgeous stained glass windows and people watching. 

Especially these people! They were sitting across from me and I could hear tiny bits and pieces of their conversation. I really wasn’t trying to eavesdrop - well, not at first - but they were talking about the Tor and ceremonies and someone getting initiated at the base of the Tor when she was 12 and seeing something but I couldn’t catch what… and quantum physics and I could just hear enough tiny bits to make me wish I had a Miracle Ear! And kind of hilariously the dark haired woman looks a LOT like Kim’s mom. Then they left and more people came in, including another older woman who did a pendulum exercise on her friend. Glastonbury is my kind of place! 

Next up, reuniting with Kim and climbing up to the Tor!