pagan only question please?

Question

i have asked for pagans only, people with monotheist religions wont have an answer.
when i heard avalon for the first time i thought it sounded familiar. i have fell in love with glastonbury and i havent been yet and i want to just have one week there but why do i love glastonbury so much??

Answer 1

It is possible that you are resonating with a past life experience. I feel the same way about Ireland. I am going, some day. I have a deep feeling that I have experienced past lives there.
Glatsonbury will much known in the Arthurian legends as the gateway to Avalon, if you know how to pass through the veil between the worlds...unfortunately, no one knows how to do that anymore. Avalon is lost to us, but the monastary at Glastonbury is steeped in Arthurian lore and tradition. Have a wonderful trip.

Answer 2

know what you are feeling. never been to france but I know I had a past life there. Maybe its the same deal with you. Or maybe look into the King Arthur legend, avalon and glastonbury are connected to him.
Magical Glastonbury
An Original Article by Geoffrey Ashe

Glastonbury is unique, sacred, spell-binding. It is a small town town in Somerset, cradled in a cluster of hills that are all different shapes. The highest is the Tor, a whaleback formation with a tower on top, once part of a church dedicated to the Archangel Michael. Near the Tor is the smooth dome of Chalice Hill. Wearyall Hill is a long narrow ridge pointing toward the Bristol Channel. Windmill Hill, on the side facing the cathedral city of Wells, is less clearly defined and covered with houses, Below are the ruins of a great medieval abbey.

Early in the Christian era, the hill-cluster was nearly encircled with shallow water, the river Brue provided a deeper channel enabling sea-going craft to reach it. An old name for it is Ynys-witrin, the Island of Glass; "island" because, from most angles of approach, it would have looked like one. A more famous name is Avalon, the Apple-place. In Celtic lore Avalon was an isle of enchantment.

This area was probably sacred long before Christianity. Around the sides of the Tor is a strange system of terracing. Much weathered and eroded, but still well-defined, it has been interpreted as a maze following an ancient magical pattern, which is found in Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Pompeii, Crete and India, and even among the Hopi of Arizona, who call it the Mother Earth Symbol. If the maze on the Tor is real, human labour formed it four or five thousand years ago, during the period of vast ritual works that created Stonehenge and Avebury. There are grounds for thinking that the Tor would have been a sanctuary of Goddess-worship. To come down to a somewhat later time, archaeology has shown that toward the beginning of the Christian era, this neighbourhood became an important centre of Celtic population, with far-flung trade. The inhabitants lived on small artificial islands.

According to a much-loved legend, Christian Glastonbury began with the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea. He figures in the Gospels as a rich disciple who obtained the body of Christ and laid it in the tomb. Some say he was an older kinsman and had brought Jesus here as a boy, perhaps on a trading voyage to Britain. Reputedly, in the years after the Crucifixion, he came to this remote country on a mission with several companions. They made their home in Avalon and remained there as a community of hermits. An offshoot of the legend concerns a local variety of hawthorn known as the Glastonbury Thorn. It is said that Joseph planted his staff in the ground, and it became a tree that blossomed at Christmas. Descendants of a medieval hawthorn on Wearyall Hill actually do blossom at Christmas or thereabouts, While no other English hawthorn does this, there are some that do in the Middle East, including Palestine.

Answer 3

I believe that we Spiritual people are drawn to these places, because we have a past life connection.. I am also drawn in Spirit to certain places on the Earth..Glastonbury is one and Stone Henge, just to mention two..Have a great trip, wish I were going too.. Also one of my favourite movies in this theme is The Mists Of Avalon.. I have it on DVD, so no matter where you live you should be able to obtain a copy.. Love and Light..... )O(

Answer 4

Never go to a place of myths and olde spirits thinking everything will be revealed to you. That you're drawn does not mean you will be accepted.
Take your book and a bit to eat so you can just sit a while, read and think on what you want out of your visit to the site from Glastonbury.

Answer 5

OMG I really want to go there too! Once I saw a ghost hunting episode at a castle there, and it looked neat, so I did a search, and fell in love. I need to see the garden & well, & tower. While I was looking at the pics, I felt like I had been there before, but it didn't look exactly the same. Like, where there should've been rose bushes, there was some leafy bush, etc. Now I'm planning a trip(be it a few years from now) but it almost feels like going home.

p.s. Does anyone know of old pics of the sites to visit anywhere on the web?

Answer 6

Occam's Razor: The simplest answer is the most likely. Instead of automatically leaping to past life conclusions (which are hyperromanticized), consider things like: you liked the way the name sounded; the mythology surrounding the area appeals to you; the energy of the place is harmonious with your own (but not necessarily because of a past life). There are *so* many other reasons a place can attract you other than past lives, and the whole past life is a pretty low likelihood, all things considered.

Answer 7

I'm pagan and "believe" in that, I don't know about glastonbury...but I do have a "connection" with defrent places in the world...not naming names. but I think we "all" have a connection to a place that we see or saw.

even in our dreams can help you as well, its like...I know this place..then when you wakeup...you'll wanna know more about that "place"...sooo yes I do believe in it.

May the Gods bless ye!

Answer 8

It definitely sounds like a past life memory. I feel the same way about India and I'm not Indian, nor have I been there. Maybe you should see a hypnotherapist for some past life regression sessions. It helped me :)

Answer 9

Because you are a piece of reincarnated peat moss from that general location.