Five years ago, two days after the fire of Notre Dame de Paris, I wrote the text below. A text that is still hauntingly relevant, because it expresses exactly what we worked on last summer and will work on next summer, during our stay in Les Contes, near Montségur in the French Pyrenees, from July …
“I finally stepped out of the field of the Azores”, Ton said this morning, after his first quiet night since we left the islands. Over the past few days he has been coughing his lungs out, so intensively that it started worrying me. “I was totally absorbed by Pico’s energy”, he explained. Pico is the name …
About sacred sites and the healing of the wounded masculine SACRED SITESSometimes it takes years to discover or understand a sacred site. In the Cathar area it took me more than ten years to understand that the real powerplace wasn’t Montsegur, but the mountain behind it, the Solarac. Somehow the Solarac was invisible to me, …
Waking up in Tomar, the day after our arrival from the Azores, I feel down.“Oh my god, you too?” Ton groans, turning to me. His eyes peek above the sheet and they don’t look cheerful. “I had a weird dream,” I growl. “It felt like I was in a void. I couldn’t get up nor down, …
There are videos that hit like a bomb. Not only because they carry a compelling message. But also because of the way they coincide with our own works and dreams. We often feel compelled to do certain things or travel to certain places, but only much later we see the bigger picture. Suddenly we understand …
“It will be a joyful chaos“, the goddess Cale told me, the day our group gathered in Hotel Dos Templarios in Tomar. “But that’s the way I work,” she went on with a wink. Since I started travelling through Portugal, this country reveals itself to me in three aspects. There is the layer of the future, …
During our three-year journey into the unknown, I was hardly prompted to seek external information. You would think that such a trip would give a huge space of free time, time to read and do all sorts of fun things you never get around to otherwise. But the trip in itself absorbed so much attention …
Researching the ancient Celtic roots of Europe As we sit in the Igreja Matriz in the town of Mertola, we muse over the word Matriz. The word refers to Mary, the Mother, but it also has other meanings: womb, uterus, matrix, and form. If the world is made up of energy and matter, then this …
Two weeks after the world woke up in shock and horror on 7 October, Anne and I are travelling towards the Sinai desert. ‘Should we even go?” we ask ourselves. Just like other trips, it feels we are flying straight into a storm. But once we arrive in St Katherine – Anne with a group …
As I sit in the garden of the Templar castle in Tomar, I am suddenly reminded of our visit to the garden of the Orval monastery a few weeks ago, when we completed our five-day retreat with our group around the famous Source of Mathilde. We had gone through such an intense process in the …