Archive for September, 2009
As a result of the publication of my book, The Missing Years of Jesus, I’ve had a few indignant letters sent to me via my publisher, but they’ve been small in number and they’ve been far outweighed by the many kind things that others have had to say. I’ve done numerous interviews for BBC Radio, courtesy of the BBC’s Head of Religion and Ethics, and at least one Christian publication has written positively about my book, so as far as I’m concerned, all this more than compensates for the resounding silence from any senior figure in the church.
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FlashForward
12:09 am
Earlier this evening, I caught the first episode of the new sci-fi series FlashForward and I enjoyed it very much. Something that I saw made me wonder yet again why no one seems to dream of Stonehenge, while the prophetic aspect of the programme also brought something to mind.
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Green Man Festival
1:49 am
I first visited Stonehenge back in 1969 and I can still remember the experience, all these years later. The next time I stepped inside the stone circle was almost thirty years further down the line, when I made a film about the ruins and the lamentable state of the facilities there for ITV West.
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I’ve just returned from London, where some of my time was spent on Stonehenge-related business. It seems to have gone well, so I’ll have my work cut out for a little while producing some fairly urgent documents and sending emails. However, there’s no shortage of other material to publish on this site, while upon my return, I found some truly fascinating material in my inbox that I’ll post up as soon as I possibly can.
Having said that, I also intend to write more about the lamentable saga of the proposed Visitors Centre, if only because I feel we’ve barely dealt with the tip of the iceberg as far as this subject’s concerned and because it’s an active and ongoing issue. I just wish I had more time to devote to Eternal Idol, but quality control is something that I try my best to adhere to. There are of course other sites that host forums and deal in fairly laconic observations, which is fine, but I prefer to try to examine certain matters in far greater depth – even if my individual posts can’t be viewed as masterpieces, I try my best to present something that’s at least worth reading, while if others see fit to contribute or disagree with a submission that’s also worth reading and considering, regardless of the length, then this is all to the good.
The picture above, “The White Goddess”, is reproduced courtesy of my extremely talented friend Anne Sudworth – if you’ve not seen or visited her site, then I strongly recommend that you do so and have a good look around.
Gone but not forgotten
10:48 pmThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly
12:21 am
In or around 2,300 BC, our ancestors had the vision, ingenuity and dedication to build the monument we now know as Stonehenge. These people, variously described as savages or howling barbarians by archaeologists in comparatively modern times, managed to construct something that was undoubtedly a wonder of the world in their time, while it is rightly regarded as one in ours. It seems that they achieved this without the benefit of anything more sophisticated than ropes, logs and plans drawn in sand or dirt, but nonetheless, something in the region of one million people a year travel from all around the world to gaze in awe at the ruins.
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
If you think that’s morose, there’s worse to follow, believe me.
RIP Keith Floyd
10:15 pm
What did Keith Floyd have to do with the subjects covered on this site? Absolutely nothing, as far as I know.
However, in this bland age of political correctness, dreary, uninspiring and talentless presenters, mundane television, editorial tyranny, PR companies, carefully managed news, banal writing, toeing the line, History Lite, forelock-tugging Company Boys and the rest of that whole sorry crew everywhere who are terrified of rocking the boat, Keith Floyd stood out by a country mile as a person who was his own man.
For the life of me, I can’t think of an expression of higher praise for this truly wonderful human being.
Dance of the Albiones?
11:29 pm
In previous posts, I’ve written extensively about the name Albion, which is the most ancient name for Britain, as far as we know, while it also seems certain that the word meant ‘white’. The inhabitants of Britain were once known as the Albiones and again, I’ve written at great length about this in previous posts, which you’re free to read for yourselves, if you wish.
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Silence of the Lambe
12:32 am
There are many aspects of Stonehenge that are clearly worthy of study, because it is self-evident that by looking into these matters, we may be rewarded with a further glimpse into the history of these mysterious ruins. There are those who apply themselves to scrutinising the architecture, the masonry, the composition and arrangement of the stones, the orientation of the monument and so forth, but I’m sure that there are other elements of Stonehenge that are equally worthy of note.
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