Albion magazine 1968 by Michael Organ

COTOM. HARNEY.

pany person who igher levels of common with most Yogin h^(|| ly two or urs in twenty-four. He would\ e telephone )ur of the day or night to give $ advice, Lwith all his voluminous person ndence the hours of two and four in the! spring flgjnhe enjoyed being taken fo ri v^^ng ■nBale of the National parks. ldwalk overjoyed by the pr^flmae' of tm and 7^i^&4hese occasions one^5u|Bj^fejtha ^ ^ ffl^ ^ r k e d was s i m ^ r i o ^ p t ©f a c S ^ S P H ^ t e a c h hJd^ubje c&mr/fpur yei*

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Silver arrows speeding past your eyes the old white bearded sage on horseback draws slowly out of the shadows to greet you without words and you are losing yourself in this big brown jungle Is this your memory marching in front of you screeching with laughter? Is this the dead music of the future? Green tendrils from the prehistoric nightmare waving like silk from apparently nowhere invade your plastic head and slow dreams of peace slip out through the hole in the door to the quiet zone. It is gone, it is all gone, just as you stretch out your hands it fades into nothingness. The sage turns his horse around and rides slowly away. You would follow, fly in his direction with the force of rivers behind you but now it is wintertime and the change is not complete.

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The remarkable phenomen of unidentified flying objects has, in general, attracted far too little attention. Since they accord with nothing of which we have scientific knowledge, many people seem able to exclude them from their thoughts altogether. The official attitude is, as one might expect, conditioned by the limitations of the official mind and of the system within which it operates. But it is surprising that the undoubted existence of flying objects which no one on earth can explain has not yet caused any great stir among people in general. I suppose we have become so dependent on official pronouncements, so confident in the omniscience of the specialists, so gullible, that it is hard for us to realise that something is happening beyond the control and understanding of governments and official bodies anywhere on earth. It is generally agreed that we are unlikely to be the only form of intelligent life in the universe. Indeed the coming of UFOs makes that clear enough. Yet even this fact has hardly begun to affect the way people think and behave. Nevertheless in certain small ways the message of the objects in the sky is beginning to lead us into new patterns of thought. A good example is the way in which the coming of UFOs and the paths they seem to follow across the country have drawn many peoples' attention to the work of Alfred Watkins of Hereford who in the 1930s wrote two books, Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, announcing and explaining his discovery of what he called leys, straight alignments of ancient sites stretching for miles across the country. It seems that discoveries can only be underÂ stood when the time is right for them. Watkins was a pioneer of scale and he was certainly in advance of his time. Then, as to a certain extent still today, archaeologists had imposed their scale of thought on everybody. They look at one site at a time in isolation and concern themÂ selves with the minute analysis of what they find. Indeed they hardly even look at a site as a whole, but become obsessed with its details. Yet, since Watkins's time a number of things have happened that make it possible to see things at last on the scale to which he worked. In the first place we now know that the stone circles all over Britain were laid out some 4000 years ago as instruments by which men could observe the heavens and predict eclipses and the movements of the sun, moon and stars. Moreover, Professor Thom has shown that stone circles are so sited that the alignments derived from observation of the heavenly bodies meet within the perimeter of the stones and form geometrical patterns illustrating mathematical concepts so advanced as to be quite incompatible with the stories we are told of a primitive prehistoric society. Professor Thom, following the practice of archaeologists, is now working inwards, demonstrating that in 2000 BC they had accurate geometry instruments and worked out figures on a small scale before erecting the stones which would demonstrate them on a larger scale and would also link geometry and mathematics with astronomy. But to begin to appreciate the meaning of our megalithic monuments we have to think on the scale which Watkins used. For the alignments that meet within a stone circle extend far beyond its perimeter. As the foresight for their lines of observations the men who erected the stones used distant peaks and prominent landmarks. And to mark the lines they set us stones, mounds, and other structures. Sometimes, as Watkins notes, sacred wells and ponds are placed on the lines, the pointed canopy of a well indicating an alignment. Hence, we still have buildings with pointed roofs sheltering pumps and wells, also town crosses and the traditional lofty covers to church fonts. Now these marking points along the lines were placed so that they each related topographically to each other. Just as the meeting of two great alignments within the stone circles produced significant geomeÂ tric patterns, so were the points along their course arranged to demonstrate certain magic properties of the land and sky. In fact the stone circles were like the centres of great ripples spreading across the land, set out with perfect geometry on the face of the country, the radiating lines from one circle meeting those of another and dividing the country into vast crystalline shapes surrounding the sacred centres. Prof. Thom has shown that the prehistoric carved spirals, such as those at New Grange in Ireland and those found on rocks and standing stones in many other places are based on integral Pythagorean triangles. In the same way the geometry of the country with its lines and spirals is precise , yet its beauty lies in the fact that it is never rigid, for it is

everywhere related to the earth’s natural features, the peaks and headlands over which the sightings were made. These features reflect the patterns of the heavens, for the whole system of alignments is based on observations of the sun, moon and stars made from the stone circles. How the circles were sited so that the lines of observation made expressive geometric figures within the stone ring is something that no one has been able to explain. Evidently some kind of divination was practiced, an art whose degenerate remains have persisted until the present time in, for instance, China. And the tradition can be seen in medieval times in the geomantic system used to select the sites of cathedrals, castles and abbeys. The survival of a secret geomantic system in Britain into the Middle Ages and even later is a fascinating subject which becomes more amazing the more you study it. But not only were the stone circles built on sites were astronomical geometry could be expressed on the horizontal plane within the circles, they were also placed in relation to each other so that the whole country formed a vast drawing board of terrestrial geometry. We now know that the inhabitants of Britain 4000 years ago had precise geometry instruments with which they could work out on a small scale the patterns which they later demonstrated on a larger scale in their circles of stones. By extension of the lines and by the use of natural peaks as well as of carefully placed mounds - Glastonbury Tor and Silbury Hill are an example of each they then spread a web of alignments across the country, the strands of which illustrate the unity of astronomy, geometry and mathematics. Knowledge of these lines and of their meaning was inherited by the Druids, and formed part of the 20 year courses of oral instruction which their initiates underwent. The achievement of the men of 4000 years ago went further than that. Some of the lines are on a larger scale than those which divide the areas between the stone circles. These are lines which appear to run straight across the country from end to end. Now only in China can one find a surviving tradition which provides a clue toward an understanding of the nature and meaning of these great lines. In China until recently no building was erected and no tomb sited without the advice of profes sional geomancers. These men, by a mixture of science, tradition and spiritual divination, were able to select the exact spots where the influences would be most favourable for placing whatever structure was intended. The aim of geomancers was to locate what they called the lines and centres of the dragon pulse, the beneficial magnetic current which flows along various paths above the surface of the earth. For later geomancers the course of this current was already indicated on the ground by the mounds erected by the people of antiquity, the great tombs and artificial hills strung out between the high places which were the centres of the dragon power. These mounds, like the mounds and circles of Britain, had been sited by magic, by m^n with an intuitive under standing of the unity of heaven and earth, in intimate communication with the spirit or life form from which understanding of the nature of the universe derived. Later geomancers both in China and in Britain inherited a degenerate survival of the great tradition. Yet in Britain enough was left in historic times to ensure that the centres of power were known to the early Christians. That is why almost every old church in Britain is correctly sited. Not only that but the principal align ment of the stone circle it replaced was repeated in the orientation of the church, and the mathe matical and magical proportions of the old stone circle retained in the fabric of the church building. Even the astrological significance of the various parts of the country has not wholly been lost. Poets have always been able to refer to the various local and national legends that are the remains of a complete system of astrological or geomantic interpretation. In England we have legends of giants and beasts in the hills and plains, and some of these can still be seen carved in the chalk, although many more have vanished, and those on the largest scale can only be detected by the geometry of their skeletons on the map. These great figures indicate the nature of the lines on which they are placed, the power and quality of the currents which flow above them. This knowledge inspired every work of art in the past, every poem, every carved line and figure, every note of music. It had to be expressed through every medium, for the

influences which at certain phases of the heavenly bodies pervade the various parts of the country are too subtle to be expressed in words or in any other single medium . In China, even into this century, the lines which marked the course of the dragon pulse were accurately marked on the ground, and the Board of Rites at Peking made sure that the ground they covered was never used for secular purposes. Only a member of the Imperial Family could build his house or plaoeyiis tomb on them. Similarly in England we note that the great mounds which here mark the the dragon lines were used only for royal burials. Both in England and in China there were many reports of dragons seen passing in the air along these lines. Official Chinese reports to the Central Government of the appearance of a dragon are very striking. Usually it was described as a bright light passing majestically overhead, or a fiery circle, shining disc or eye in the heavens. The official making his report would add his interpretation of this portent and describe the events w^ich followed appearance. IrttT there are plenty of report ' ” ~ places associated many such be found a: acraW " I believe they can bo clear!’ ^plotted out on the map it can be seenthaC Straight lines that form a triangle across the count] ie of the killing of a dragon, an old legend r e interpreted tc voYsHip of the dragon or fiery disc by the new Ch religions§t, a member of a prominent local family is remej sreral families still bearing arms and titles andj lore often the hill where the dragon was killed el or, less commonly, to St. George, St. Margaj traditionally dragon killers; the fourth, St. wheel.

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killing St. Mil Ogbornel Castle ml Between these dedication. The si| the opening of the ne effect the great re con citation,]

nerous mounds, beacons and churches ichael to this present time is that it is he 1 ejected Satan from heaven. It is he

From a study of the dragon line one really extraordinary fact becomes clear. Pal the Glastonbury area which I have stld:||M^tesest it is evident that a certain unit of me used in the distances between the varimfi^^^BgLds and sacred places. This unit, equival! 2. 72 of our miles, bears the same relationship to them ile as does tjhe megalithic yard the stone circles were laid out - to our Once seen, this number becomes apparent in noted a connection between the measurements of angles which is the angle N of E of the great dragon line, which I possibly Capella, in megalithic times. It may have been this 2000 year cycle preceding the birth of Christ. It may have prompted! message in earth and stone across the world.

KL J. Griffith 72 = 27. 2

Some examples of the use of the unit 2. 72 or of its multiples are as follows (We ir secret, magic unit the Geomantic Mile) :

Glastonbury Glastonbury Glastonbury Glastonbury

Tor Tor Tor Tor

St. Michael’s Tower, Burrow Bridge ----- 4 Geomantic Miles Stoke St. M ich ael........................................ 4 Camelot ....................................................... 4 " ” A v e b u ry ......................................................... 15

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Silbury Hill - Stonehenge............ # ,|g| Glastonbury Abbey - Wells Cathedral (Both places certainly sited by Glastonbury Tor - St. Michael's Hill, At the very start of Britain, at the wester; Lands End is 4 Geomantic Miles. Here t; that produces a certain musical note. It country, discernible in the proportions of the

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everywhere Poets have often expressed the feeling? t: ||ned within the landscape itself, a message, as it were, to a future time. It%ee! ;e left their message on such an enormous scale that come what may some do we have monu- .4 ments such as Stonehenge and the GreatJP^yamid, ‘ the r c measurements has yet to be realized, we also have.in.the ferv. number'of uiE§._ , , world, evidence of a universal, spiritual civiIizat.ion;ift^he vast quantity oft! _ that something would survive until today, To see the message that has scale of poets rather than archaeologists, to look outwards rather than inw; the country as a whole was' |iss Maltwood's vision j s the scale onto which the ap sZodiac and so was Watkbli^ aout them. Those who have ; Ipwimming in their own elehSfk, ;i | in the monuments and their aligril nnce non-believers about the ext are pointing out to us. ers above the village of at crucifix was discovered buried v fix was placed on a cart drawn |land travelling where they jgwas founded Waltham Abbey: centres are said to have Sfpst perfectly conical and quite labyrinth. The in the centre of its 1: - *u o whai > - life atrlrish round tower, built in 17G0 with a taste for Apertures in the side of this tower, which can ern,. not as in the genuine: Irish towers oi certain is and astronom 1caI alignments, but of Montacute House and other places of p ej is nothing to indicate the real purpose of the hill, the* _ — .. . from it. Nowadays the timber and bush on the sides irfew from its summit, but from the top of the tower one can ace ections. The Somerset plains and marshes lie below, they churches, mounds and ancient sites clearly visible, pointing to distant peaks and p seju d d en ly out of the flat country. Pointed earthworks on these peaks reveal tl Qfjh g ^ e ar the heavenly bodies appear or disappear behind it above this hill the wtole circle of the heavens is visible megfl| were set ablaze with the equinoxia^ h a ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J ^ ^ e r f u l and enlightening experier>j^j) ^ elpw repeating the stars

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f all hills now dedicated to St. Michael or to one of the other traditional dragon killers, this hill marks the centre where the dragon lines meet. It has three things in common with the St. Michael’ s Hill exactly five Great miles away, Glastonbury Tor. Both overlook places of ancient sanctity, both bear on their sides the mark of a carved labyrinth, and both are perfectly flat on top. This summit, found at nearly all hills associated with the dragon, the fiery disc that moved along certain fixed lines, had to be flat. Sometimes, as at the sites of a number of flying saucer landings, the spot where the dragon descended is still barren, or barely covered with grass. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the legends are correct, that on these flat topped hills something landed from the sky, some fiery disc or coiled dragon that forever sanc tified the hills to which it flew and the paths between them. Now it is certain that many of the hills associated with the dragon or with the killer of a dragon were centres of initiation into the mysteries. What actually happened at these initiations is unknown - but it seems that the great enlightenment or vision which was their climax was preceded by an experience of great terror which some failed to survive. This may have involved a journey underground and passage through a labyrinth, probably in a drugged and envisioned state. There are many native plants that could have been used to produce the necessary state of trance, and at least two of them grow on the lower slopes of Glastonbury Tor. At Glastonbury too, as on the slopes of many of the other sacred flat topped hills, can be seen the remains of a great spiral labyrinth cut in the turf. This was the labyrinth which those seeking initiation trod on their passage to the summit. At that time it may have been enclosed with bushes, earth banks or hurdles, so that nothing could be seen of the surrounding countryside until the top was reached. In the laby rinth was encountered some force, the full terror of which had to be experienced before those reaching the top were rewarded by the moment of enlightenment for which their years of training had prepared them. I believe that what they encountered was some manifestation of the force of which these hills are the natural conductor. And this force was know poetically as the monster or dragon within the labyrinth. Yet in China, the dragon is known as a natural beneficial force. Perhaps it was those who could understand this, those who did not give way to terror at the vision they encountered, who succeeded in reaching the top. There, having faced and conquered the ultimate fear, their eyes were opened. They saw the meaning of what they had experienced, the nature of the force they had encountered, and they saw the lines of its current stretching away on all sides, across the country and across the world. They became attuned to a current of time which annihilated space. This initiation was practiced universally, for at that time human society was world wide. The dragon power linked all men. Yet today we have forgotten the very possibility of a past where all men were united by a common idea of the true universal way of life. This is something we must understand if the warning appearance of UFOs is not to be in vain. Many of us have seen the objects in the sky. Probably all of us know someone else who has. I believe they have been seen by a vastly greater proportion of people in this country than is realized. A newspaper reporter said nis paper prints about one in a thousand of the UFO reports it receives, and for everyone who writes to the papers there must be dozens who do not. vVe must now recognize the direction in which the appearance of UFOs is turning our thoughts. It seems that for many people the objects in the sky are linked with the features of the ground below. UFOs are pointing towards a clue which in the past has been ignored by all but the most extreme visionaries - the revelations concealed within the landscape itself. Here we have definite proof of the past existence of a civilization inconceivable to us today. The cultural void which today renders so much effort futile is no inheritance from the past. The great civilization which declined and was lost some 3, 500 years ago was based on, or sustained by the memory of a great vision some time in the remote past and by a knowledge of the force that inspired it. Through this vision all men had access to a state of enlightenment. They lived in absolute certainity, following in all they did the rhythm of the stars and the direction of God. As the memory of the old gods grew fainter, a vast system of oral tradition replaced what hitherto all men had known and as guardians of this tradition a body of priests came into existence, who ceased to live as all men had hitherto lived - that is communally with all work shared by all and with knowledge as every man’s right. Under the priests the universal civilization began to break up, rival groups of interpreters leading their various people in different directions, until the completely artificial divisions between men came to be thought of as natural.

That is, of course, the case today. But UFOs, though perhaps ithe most striking, are but one of the phenomena which at this time can be seen as portents of change. The universal nature of the message is clear. It would hardly be credible to people from outside this planet that men are prevented by each other from travelling at will over the face of the earth. Yet we have reached a state where we hardly question the laws that forbid us to move from one spot to another with out a passport or some other license, and to accept a system where whole sections of the globe are altogether barred to people from various other parts. Those concerned with the meaning of UFOs feel freer than most to bypass governments in communicating with their friends in other countries. Yet how could we possibly explain to extra-terrestrial visitors a state of things where communication between certain of us has been declared illegal and even punishable by death, and where even within individual countries people have become so withdrawn from each other that the true meaning of human life has been utterly lost. In this country we can see perhaps clearer than anywhere how at one time all men worked tog ether on an inconceivably ambitious project. They knew which were the great sacred centres, the places where, among other things, the rise and fall of the heavenly bodies could be interpreted in geometric forms and from there into mathematics and poetry. It was poetry, or rather the one great poem of enormous length which described the whole of a man’s life. The poem derived from and its rhythm reflected the progress of the stars across the heavens, and so men’s lives were lived according to an astrological pattern. The movement of time was recorded at the stone circles; ripples of time spread across the country and from centre to centre across the world. These ripples set in motion ail the natural processes of plants, animals, and at one time, men. Men knew when the season, the very hour, had come at which certain things had to be done in accordance with the rhythm of nature. This state of dreamlike certainty thus achieved, liberated the mind from the struggle with chaos, from the anxieties of physical existence, and allowed it to move into a higher plane, one where time was seen as relative and where actual travel in time was possible and practised. I believe that 4000 years ago men foresaw the end of an era, the changes which meant the end of a certain phase in human history. They saw the dangers into which men would be led by the coming of a new age of inventiveness and technological development, and resolved universally to leave a message for a certain time in the future. We have now become aware of strange objects in the sky, which to many people are connected with the system of leys, lines and centres now becoming apparent on the earth. The first part of the message is mow emer ging. Sometime in the past a universal civilization left proof of its existence right round the globe. That to us is startling enough. \*et there is much more to come. Besides their extra ordinary astronomical significance and their apparent topographical relationship to each other, we still know little about the meaning of the monuments in earth and stone which still survive. Already a hitherto unknown method of predicting lunar eclipses has emerged from a study of Stonehenge, and scientists, astronomers and mathematicians have a great deal still to learn in their own fields from their remote predecessors. Yet the full message will not be mechanistic. It will not be interpre ted by any one science or discipline, for it will be on a scale that transcends such divisions and limit limitations of knowledge. The armour of prejudice and ignorance has clothed us for so many centuries that it has become rigid, almost a carapace, stifling our judgement and intuition, making us boundlessly credulous in certain directions and wilfully unbelieving in others. Only a revelation on such an unsuspected scale that it can in no way be made to accord with our present attitudes, can enable us to burst out of our state of armoured prejudice. I believe that UFOs are pointing to something so huge and obvious that we have overlooked it. I think we have the opportunity to develop another organ of perception, one which for centuries has lain uneasily dormant, demanding to be exercised. This latent sense, although of course, indescribable in terms of any of the others we possess, has to do with time travel. 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Of course, still being attached to the pop industry, it was done to death and milked almost dry (can anyone count the number of times the word ’trip’ occurred in the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film ?) Can anyone reasonable fail to be repelled by phoney psychedelic records like ’’ From the Underworld” , by the Herd, written by the same team responsible for the mind-blowing ’ Zabadak’ ? Who were those misguided people who actually tried to play music while tripping or blocked? Things became commer cial and extreemly frenzied and uncool, and with such islands as UFO, Happening 44 etc, being turned over, busted and finally vanishing in volcanic eruptions of law and yobs, the birds, though still on the wing, did the only thing left .. . they went underground. Fashion forgotten, the acid fog clearing ( I would like to make it clear that I would not wish acid on anyone, except perhaps the government and the army), and the reaction setting in hard, where are we? Have we anything left? Chris Welch of the MM said at New Year, in the gloomy light of one of his well-publicised hangovers, ’’There isn’t a single group that shows the slightest sign of becoming a fave rave” . Well, maybe not a ’fave rave’ , but instead of dancing to Hunglebert’s ’’Last Warts” , young people are dancing to the music of such blues bands as those of John Mayall, Peter Green, and Aynsley Dunbar, and listening to the most musicianly and exciting groups that have ever appeared on stands in this country: The Soft Machine, Jimi Hendrix, the Cream, Arthur Brown, The Family, the Who - and it is these people whose influ ence really predominate among musicians and youthful public alike, as well as more established seminal figures such as Spencer Davis and Graham Bond, who continue as living refutations of the planned obsolescence formula for popular music. They are entertainers, but they will never become all-round family entertainers.

So, if you’re worried about the charts (and who in his right mind is worried about the charts) and their current resemblance to a cemetary of British music-hall ghosts turned pornographic milkmen for despairing house One of the first expressions of this, and a very prim wives, remember that the Underground is where it should itive one, was the trip record, which attempted to convey be . .. working. We may have been to Fairyland or the acid experiences and ’’turn you on” , through the use of clouds a few times; now let’ s go to Leeds in our own subliminal techniques. Being produced to a certain section clothes and our own van........

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Methods of developing awareness have been handed down through the ages by various teachers in different cultures. It is becoming important not only to rediscover these, but to understand and use them in daily practise. By so doing, we may come to an understanding of HOW we have been diverted from an harmonious existence. The object of all spiritual disciplines is to realise the Ego, and restrain itTs activity. The fundamental nature of the Ego is held to be illusory since a conflict is basic to it’s function; that which is T and that which is ’not I\ From this system of double value* (duality) arises hostility, desire and lust. This is the condition of impure mind. When these attachments arising from Ego are removed, even briefly, the condition of Mind is raised toward total consciousness. In this state a more allembracing awareness can be experienced. Circumstances are known to be related directly to a cause of cosmic magnitude. This is Mind in it’ s original capacity. In Buddhism the highest goal of yogic meditation is to obtain a state of mental quietness devoid of all thought processes in which Samadhi (profound meditation) is ITSELF obsolete. The lowest levels of this path are devoted to obtain ing a consistent understanding of one’s Self and it’ s motivations. Actions that are usually followed impulsively, and desires that one automatically gratifies are seen and an attempt is made to analyse them. One remains tranquil allowing time between impulse and action for falseness to be eliminated. The pressure of life is eased, and behav iour becomes more co-ordinated. Having devoted the consciousness to one pointedness there are no trivial considerations left. Having pers isted in these techniques by which ’normal’ awareness is transcended, knowledge is turned to Wisdom, and sen^atknTis replaced^by-^Q^ In or wisdom h*d

TANTRIC LAMAS IN EXILE Tibet, if no longer a country, still heroically exists in bits and pieces scattered accross northern India, Nepal, Sikkim and at points here and there in the West. Small groups of refugees struggle to create vital communes which would grow on the tradition of art and spirituality, seeking to preserve some purity of the wisdom which has been intrinsic to Tibetan life. No longer a place, Tibet is now a force liberating sp iri tual energy to the undercurrents of the Great Western Renewal. The focii of these emanations are in diversly located settlements which often barely manage to survive without adequate help from outside. Such a settlement near Dalhousie, India, is what is left of the famous Tantric college of Lhasa, Gyudto (which once housed 900 students). It is an old house surrounded by a cluster of shacks, some like kennels, in which the Lamas study and meditate. Of the original number only about 100 Lamas remain living in almost squalid conditions. The small rations which have, up until now, been supplied by the Indian Government, will soon be stoped, so the Tibetans have taken up handicrafts mostly making rugs. These Lamas are from the Gelugpa sect (Yellow Hats) from which His Holiness the Dalai Lama comes. Before enter ing Gyudto the monks must have attended one of the three lower colleges of Drepung, Sera or Gaden. They are, therefore, well versed in the Dharma and in Tantric practice. These Lamas have the lowest chanting voices in the world and their ritual sound is of an unbelievable power nd spiritual resonance. the college their ages range from 26 to 60. Despite the ries of the hell behind them, the Lamas are cool and rene. Their warmth and ironic sense of humour often eaks through the language barrier (this is still evident ce they have been learning English for only two years), eir teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Carpenter, will soon be leaving having completed her stay in which she laid down ir them some basics of English language. It is Mrs. Carpenter’s idea to appeal for pen-friends on behalf of the Lamas of Gyudto. She asks anyone inter ested to contact Gyudto Penfriends/Peter’s Field Dalhousie/G P / India.

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