Walking in Albion

In the early 1980s I went looking for King Arthur. I found him. I wrote about my early adventures in that search through landscape and myth in Looking for Arthur. More recently, I’ve been on the trail of another enigmatic quarry, a guy called Albion. The results of my adventures in searching for him are in this book, Walking in Albion. This time it was not so much about a search, because I already knew where he is, but about finding the best way to interact with him, a protocol I now call walking in Albion. Albion, by the way, is not a “guy” nor a female form, but a cosmic spirit who happens to be living on the Earth. More interestingly, not just in one “body,” but in hundreds, big and small, and one, the consummate form, the size of the Earth itself. No, Albion is not an alien or an Ascended Master or some kind of bloated spirit. Albion is a picture map of the original idea of Creation, full of lights and palaces, but he’s more than that: Albion is a living embodiment, condensed, of the Creation. He is a key to our understanding what the Earth is about, how it got here, and why it’s here. I doubt you will disagree that we need this kind of living knowledge today as many people are worried, edgy, if not in a state of low-grade panic, about what our Earth is doing and whether it bodes well or poorly for we mostly ill-mannered human residents. We are ill-mannered in the sense that we have not been exemplary guests. The planet, despite what most religions state and what passes for or poses as higher education and science, was in fact designed and made for us, its caretakers and recipients. We need to start looking after our home planet a bit better in the 21st century. It’s really in our best interests. First, we’ll worry less when we start being part of the solution; and second, the design of the Earth and its mechanics support our waking up. Why do we want to wake up? Aren’t we already awake and walking around? Not really, not very deeply. Can you answer these questions to your satisfaction: Why are you here? What is the purpose of your life? How come you have a perishable body? How come you are conscious? Why is there consciousness at all? Why is the Earth here? What is its purpose? Do we have anything to do with it? Can we help it? Unless you can come up with really snappy answers that satisfy you, and I doubt it, then this is why you ought to be concerned with waking up. Waking up means you get satisfactory answers to these questions, and many more. Better, waking up means you start forming a new relationship with our dear old Earth; you get a second go at it. Walking in Albion is a first-person chronicle, equipped with visions and jokes, of some experiences you might have if you find this interesting and pick up the threads. I’ve written about how the Earth was designed in Welcome to Your Designer Planet! so I won’t repeat it all here, just a tight summary. Our Earth was designed and implemented for a purpose long ago by many higher intelligences. That purpose has to do with our waking up. What if you woke up and realized you are the cosmos, all the heavenly realms, all the gods, and a reflection of God Himself/Herself? That you and the Earth have the same structures of consciousness, are the same? The Earth’s design makes that experience possible, and here’s the cool bit, while in perishable human bodies, squishy delicate forms requiring sneakers and hair brushes, capable of talking, shouting, cracking jokes, male or female, it doesn’t matter. The rest is engineering and mechanics, and from an engineering viewpoint, it’s impressive. You’ve heard of sacred sites, I’m sure. Pilgrimage destinations, holy places, power points, and all the other names given to places of heightened spiritual presence. Every sacred site is a physical place-marker for something invisible to ordinary sight. It’s not invisible to clairvoyance, though, which happens to be a very useful tool here. Within every physical sacred site is a subtle or shall we say etheric Light temple. This term points to a place in which a temple-like space has been structured from light; it looks like an architectural form of some kind, but the building materials are light. You go into this place in vision and have a mystical experience; incidentally, this is where most of the exciting, if baffling, adventures recorded in the world’s myths take place. I use the term “visionary geography” to describe a planetary landscape filled with, no exaggeration, millions of Light temples. The term was coined by a brilliantly insightful French scholar of Islamic and pre-Islamic mysticism, Henry Corbin. The Earth’s subtle terrain is a landscape producing visions of holy things and processes, and these things and processes comprise an outside apparition of you as a cosmic spirit. The Earth’s visionary geography, again, is where all the myths take place; that’s where you will find, and, I assure you, you can, all the amazing things from mythology. At the planetary level, the visionary geography is part of a larger system of intelligently designed organization. I call this the Earth’s Light grid or Light body. It’s a complex form with a geometrical and even mathematical aspect and lots of layers.