Most historians put the Isle of Avalon in Glastonbury where the Glastonbury TOR is. It is also suggested the two other locations, Island of Man and Bardsey were possible locations of this mysterious Avalon. It is noted it was a place of healing and rejuvenation from any sickness or injury. When King Arthur sustained his fatal wounds it was said that they sent him to Avalon so that the Priestesses could take care of him.
Glastonbury claimed that it was the true location of Avalon. The TOR is said to be a portal to The Other World, where the Jewel in the Lotus of the Soul is.
If you look at the picture above you will notice some tiers on the hill. There is supposed to be seven that you can see and many more that you can't because of land erosion and the like. Each level is a part of a labyrinth left by the ancient people who lived there. The labyrinth depicts and show a universal pattern made my many ancient peoples such as the Hopi Indians, Kretens, and Ceylons. Weather these are a true representation of ancient sculpturing or not remains to be see, Until they dig up the hill we might never know. The truth is, however, the longer we wait to make an archaeological dig, the more likely that we will not find the answers we seek.
Glastonbury Abbey was the second place to be mentioned beside the Tor in buildings that still stand on the Island. There has been much reading on this and that they also consider Avalon being part of Cornwall.
Yet another place puts it on the Island of Mont Saint Michael, Brittany, France. Avalon was a school for training druids, Priestesses and Bards. According to Meaning of the Name Avillion states:
“At the beginning Avalon was called Apple Island - where the most delicious golden-red apples grew. Among the local people it became known as "E’main Ablach", a mystical place only visible to some and at certain times. Long before King Arthur, this legendary Isle is said to have been the home of the Priestesses of Great Mystery, Center of Magical Practices and home of the Holy Grail. It was also a Center of Healing Arts where the finest herbs were harvested for healing work extended by its priestesses to the local community. Avalon was a school from which arose Merlin, Druidic Magicians, and Bards.
Energy is always a timing factor and when the alchemical balance rotated a vibrational stimulant that was felt as threatening, or inspired envious curiosity, Avalon disappeared from the third dimensional access, to retain its safety for such times when its true service is required. Mist and wind and more veils of mist conveyed all and everything into the 5th dimension."
Biblically
Jesus Visits Avalon
When Jesus was just a boy he would visit his Mother's brother, Joseph of Arithmathea often. His Grandmother went back to live in Brittany. One year when hew just a teen he wanted to go with Joseph to visit his grandmother, but his parent's had turn down that trip. They wanted him to stay and finish learning his father's trade of ship building. It was also after he went astray to the churches in Jerusalem and gave his parent's a scare.
Later, when he was older and after his father's death he and his mother did go to Britain to visit his grandmother. His Uncle Joseph was a very important person being the major trader of metals for Rome. This trip was for Joseph to do some important trading and while they were there Jesus made his way from Brittany to the Isle of Avalon. They traveled in many ships that went from Antioch, Cyprus, Ephesus, Sicily, Cyrenia, Sardinia , Massilia (Marseilles) where they would leave the ships to walk and horseback over the land to Brittany, Cornwall for tin and then to Somerset.
When Joseph finished his dealings and trading’s they (Joseph, Jesus and his mother, Mary) sailed up the coast to Looe Island, mining districts around Warleggan on the Bodmin Moor, traveled west into Penwith, St Just and Ding Dong mine (the oldest mine in Cornwall) to Whitesands Bay and finished the trip to a place called Pilton on the Severn estuary.
Jesus listened and learned of the way of the Druids. The Druids also learned from him too as they also revered him as a great teacher.
Jesus liked it so much that he stayed for a while and making preparations for his mission that he was sent to do. While there it is reported that he made a wattle and daubed hut to live in. Just by hitting his cane on the ground he made a small spring of water come up to the surface. After his death Joseph did come back and they built the first Christian church. There is a report of the many Reverends, notably the Rev. H.A. Lewis, which wrote some of this information down and how Rome came to the Island and Brittany. You can read that and much more on Cornish Legends. There is also new information on DailyMail about a Church that Jesus supposedly built in the town of Somerset in England.
The Apple
Avalon's meaning is that of The Land of Apples and has a rich tradition from the Druid’s the High Priestess that used them in their ceremonies to other Welsh and Celtic Traditions. Avalon is also the land of the Faeries and the dead. We know about the King Arthur legends as I have stated above.
Druid's used the Apple's as a way to get to the Other world and had the powers to bring about healing and youth. It is also a very holy and sacred tree to the Druids. Mistletoe is one of the Druid's sacred plants that they infuse into an Apple Tree branch and have silver shaped apple bells sing melodies. In doing this they were able to go to the Other world.
Merlin was said to have work in a magical Apple Grove guarded by birds. He was said to receive the gift of prophecy from the Faerie Queen, (Morgan Le Fay), by eating her magic apples. Merlin was also said to take have laid under the holy apple tree while he was sick with madness.
The medieval church believed that apples could bring about possession of demons to whomever they were given too.
In Welsh Battle of the Trees the apple tree possesses poetic immortality and is known as the Nobelist tree.
“In Druid lore, the essence of three sacred apples growing on the Tree of Knowledge came from three drops that fell from Cerridwen’s cauldron, which correspond with the Druid’s most holy symbol, the Three Rays of Light.” Lots more information about the apple in lore and recipes and much more can be found on Druidry. Org: APPLE by Susa Morgan Black now a PDF file, but here is an excerpt from that article:
"Apples were the fruit of the other world (Avalon or Avallach - the Isle of Apples). They are often used for magic and fortune telling. A young woman would peel an apple all in one paring, and throw it over her shoulder. The peeling would take the shape of the first initial of the man she would marry. Eating an apple in front of a mirror while combing your hair will conjure your true love's image in the mirror. Another tradition is "dunking for apples". Apples are placed in a tub or barrel of water, and dunkers will try to retrieve these apples with their teeth. Those who succeed will have good fortune the following year. (Another traditional way to do it is to hold a fork in your mouth and try to retrieve the apple by piercing it.) Hazel nuts were also used in matrimonial divination. Two groups of "Sweetheart" hazel nuts were placed within the hearth fire; one group was marked with the names of the village's eligible maidens, and the other with the eligible bachelors."
What They Have Found
During some archaeological digs around the year 1190 Arthur's grave was found. A Welsh or Breton bard supposedly gave the location of the grave site to Henry II. He said that Arthur was buried in the old graveyard at Glastonbury between two pyramids. They found a stone slab about 7 feet down with an inset lead cross. At 16 feet down they found a hollowed out log that contained the skeletal remains of an very large man and a small, delicate woman. The cross with the words
"Here lies buried the famous King Arthur with Guinevere, his second wife, in the isle of Avalon." has eroded over time. Excavating the site in modern times brought about a grave site that was much earlier than that one. It is said that this was manipulated so that they could raise funds to re-build the Abbey, which suffered a devastating fire in 1184 and was in desperate need of money.
This too is considered a myth, even though we do have accounts by clergy and those grave sites as possible evidence.
WATCH THIS VIDEO IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE
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REALITY
Reality is
based on factual evidence. It is something that our five senses can utilize.
Each person's conception of what is real to them and what is real to someone
else isn't always the same. Certain reactions to the psyche with chemicals
gives some people differing views of what their reality is. There are also other senses that most of us
don't even know exists. This is where
magic and myths come into play. There is
something about seeing something out of the corner of your eye. It is true and science has explained
this. There are things called cloaking
devices and they work with that kind of thing.
Japan has this and has used it for many years. Obviously it is not known by the mainstream
public. So when someone says that they
have experienced something and you don't believe it...you better think more on
what they say they have seen and what really is a myth.
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MYTHS
Myths are
not based on facts but more on fantasy and made up stories. Some are just
Figments Of Your Imagination. Photo on the left are the work of Ron Schneider
as the original Dreamfinder (with Figment of course) in the early years of the
Imagination pavilion. He was the original person to have a strolling Character
in the Dreamfinder and Figment Pavillion, Journey Into Your Imagination., at
Disney's Theme Parks.
My figurine of Merlin teaching Arthur of the Camelot Legend
LEGENDS
Legends are
a bit of reality embellished with some myth in an attempt to keep the facts
going such as facts that happened based on someones perception of reality or a
group of people's views. Much like the game where the first person in a line
tells a fact to the next and so on and so forth. By the time they get to like
the 10th person that fact has been distorted in one way or another. This
doesn't make the fact false, but the story adds on a new character to the fact.
Since time
began humans have experienced other worlds and other realms and portals into
other places. Some may be made up and some may not be. Either way the thought
had entered their minds from somewhere. A possibility of just the imagination.
The belief is in the experience of those who have been there and have written
them down for all to see. I suggest you to use a figment of your imagination
and find your dreams, to open your minds to what is and could be. Remember just
because you have not seen or experienced these places and events does not
necessarily mean they aren't true.
Have you
ever said to yourself or someone that they are crazy and then months down the
road you experienced the same thing? I know I have and know others that this
has happened too. In this world everything is possible.
There are
many such places and realms of possibilities.
Here is an
interesting small snippet to the story that you will want to read:
"Now, there is little wild land left at all, and even that is shrinking at an unprecedented rate. There is simply not enough wild space for all the gnomes and elves, fauns and faeries, goblins, ogres, trolls and bogies, nymphs, sprites, and dryads.
So where are they?
Are they dead?
No.
So, where did they go?"
Click on this and you will be able to find the whole story.
There are many mythical and magical places that are on this planet and in other realms. Some may claim that they are not real and the person claiming them to be is imagining it all. Who is to say what is real and what is magic or myth. People still think that cloaking devices are myth and should be kept in Start Trek movies. Ahhh but I will give you stories of places for you to read and you must decide for your own self what is real and what is myth and what is just a legend. Never tell anyone that their dream or imagination is a story just made up because it could have been real, is real and you don't know it or it will be real.
We are a product of our own imagination and our whole existence is such.
Do you visualize what you want in your life or in your day? That is using your imagination.
Does it come true? Then if it does you have made the imagination into reality.
Be careful with your thoughts because they will manifest themselves in your world and in your reality.
Others have their own versions and thoughts and make up their own reality too and no two are alike.
So what you imagine and manifest others may not believe you either.
Just remember that!
A hollow tree we took down and it looks like
a Fairy Portal to me.
Some things that you ought to think about too in this video
You would be astonished at all you could eat in the Dark
Ages. They knew how to cook over an open
flame and in their own ovens better than most of us do today.
They had bake houses that were not in each house but in a
separate building. It was low to the
ground the floor was of clay, mostly.
Some flint was used and the thickness was about 15 inches. They used it mostly to bake breads, but on
occasion they would roast or bake other things such as cuts of meat and the
like.
The meats that they had were fresh because it was what they
could catch that day. Dried meats and fish were common to the
inland parts of the country while they caught fresh seafood on the coastal
parts. Some peasants had chicken and
pigs and would use the eggs and eat the chickens and the pigs. It took lots of land, but some did this. They would also sell their wares and their
foods for other things. It was a
bartering society back then and worked well for them.
Wild Boar, Deer, Rabbit, Pheasants, Sheep, Goats, fish were mostly what they hunted and ate. So
that is the reason peasants would raise pigs as their meat. They did hint for food and gathered berries and other food during the the year. The lords would have feasts, which fed the
people but it was also a political move in that it would show the peasants and
other territories or villages the power that they had. You had to be very careful not to hunt or fish on the Lord's land because if you were caught “stealing” from them your hands would be cut off.
There were many fruits and nuts that they gathered from the
land. Apples, chestnuts, blueberries,
capers, turnips, kale and cabbage were standard fare. The grains that were mostly used in their
baked goods were wheat, barley and rye.
Some of them had enough land to grow their own grains, but it was a rare
commodity in those days. Reading about
all this I found that they used almonds a lot.
They used them as thickeners for soups and stews and they even used
almond milk to drink because not many could afford a dairy cow. I
find it funny that this is all the rage today when in the medieval times it was considered standard whereas today dairy milk is the standard. They used many types of nuts in their recipes.
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Ale was the drink of choice because there was no
refrigeration and whatever they drank fresh, from fruits would ferment pretty
quickly. They were fine connoisseurs of wine making. Many fruits and grains were made into Ale, Beers, Wine and the like
How would you like to make things like:
Caudell, an ale or frothey wine tyoe drink
Roast Pork With Oranges and Onions
Hedgehogs Small meat pudding/pies covered with almonds
Yalanei Dolmes Rice in Grape leaves
For these and many other recipes that were made in the 5th century and later
you can go to the best recipe database there is on the net: Original Medieval Recipes Have fun
trying to cook the way they did back in medieval times. All the recipes are written with the original game and vegetables they would have used. You will not find modern day bovine or any of the kind of meat there that we have today. Some have been translated from the language of that time period to modern day for you. Have
fun there!
Le Livre de la Chasse: Slaying the Boar (Morgan Library, c. 1407)
In today world they send many young men off to what are
called boot camps. These boot camps
train you in how to use a weapon, how to obey your superiors and other warfare
tactics in staying alive and doing as you should if you come up to the
enemy. In medieval times in the Land of
Camelot they did things way different that we do them today.
Young men trained dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound
They had three different types of dogs.
One was for short distance running, Those would include the Greyhound that we call today. They were called Deerhound or sighthounds. Whippets, Afghan Hounds, Borzoi, Irish Wolfhound, Scottish Deer Hound, Slauki and Sloughi would also fit into this category. They were known for their keen sight and their speed. They could run up to 40 mph and very good at distance running as well. Imagine keeping up with this dog.
http://dogs.wikia.com/wiki/Labrador_Retriever
Another one that they trained and used were Labrador Retrievers which would flush out the prey and hold until the owner coud get to it. So these young men
would start out training the dogs that would be used for the hunt. The took breeds with good hunting andskills and rasie them from pups and train them for agility, speed and holding of the prey. In actuality they were really being train to hunt both for food and for warfare.
Weaponry
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They also had training in weaponry. This was elaborate in itself. They had more weapons and other things they used to bring down the
animal they were hunting. They did all the cutting up in the field before they brought it home to cook and eat.
They also made their own weapons they were using so
they had to be very good if not almost perfect.
You did not want to go out and try to catch a wild boar and your sword
broke. Wild boars are a ferocious animal and you had to be swift with the kill else they turn back on you and kill you or others.
These same weapons were later used in their battles and wars. This is how they trained their young men to
become soldiers. It was hard work taking
down the huge beast, like wild boar, deer, large fowl and other beasts they
found roaming around in the forest outside of the Castle.
They had to have the stamina and
the knowledge and wisdom to take these beasts down without getting killed
yourself.
They always brought back their kill for the family and villages they
lived in. That was whats for dinner.
They also had ways to get under the fortress walls of the
people they were fighting against. They
dug tunnels under them. They had a whole
arsenal of attacking and winning against the opposition. They learned all this while learning how to hunt for food.
My Personal Spiritual Experience With My
Grandmother
Emma
Mabel (Spiker) Lewis This is my Father's Mother.
Picture was taken in June
1964.
Some background:
My grandmother and I didn't really have much contact in life
due to Family situations beyond my control or comprehension (call it a Family
Feud that goes on to this day). Well she passed away when I was 16 and I went
to see her while she was in the hospital a week before she died. It took 7
heart attacks in one week until she passed on. We went to her funeral and all
that and I didn't have anything to say about it--because I didn't know her all
that well--only what I was told and that wasn't a whole heck of a lot. I didn't
know that I when I was being watched by her when I was a small baby, somehow I
was found in the middle of the street in front of her house. So to the main story...........
Three days after the funeral--I had an experience with her--
it wasn't a dream. She came to me and took me to a street lined with the most
beautiful trees that covered the street like a canopy. The trees had yellow
flowers all over them (and here is the color yellow again). We talked forever
--it seemed like hours.
She told me that she wanted to really get to know me before
going away but wasn't able to in this life. I heard that she also came to her
youngest son------but when I asked him about these years later he denied it. He
is a devout Welsh Baptist and I think they told him he was just dreaming and he
just forgot about it. So this was just not my experience but someone else's too
that was in the family.
Oh, we didn't have bodies like we do in the life stage here
on the Earth----it was more like telepathy. It was also like she was never old
like here on Earth. Where we go after the Physical body is no longer useful to
us -there is no getting old--we are all the same age.............and I have
heard that it is like the age of 35 ---but then the question comes up--how did
we get to that age? It also comes to me that when our bodies become unusable we
don't just cease to exist.....there are other things we do without a body-and
it is awareness and consciousness and thought and movement and life --not death
like we never do anything or wait until the next body and there is
nothingness----we are continuous.............just maybe that is what we talked
about for hours and hours.
It was a wonderful experience that I will never forget. I
hold it special to my heart and this is how I remember her--even if others do
not. I know that she loved me and even if I don't remember her in this life I
will always love her too.
An Encounter With My Husband's Mother
Actually this was two encounters. She passed away while we were at a Knight's Of Columbus event in Canaan Valley in West Virginia. At the time she was living in an Assisted living facility with her husband in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
She became very ill just days before the first encounter and was told that it would be OK to go ahead and make our trip and not to worry. When all the festivities ended for the day, my husband went off to be with the guys and talk and do whatever it is the guys do after spending their whole day at the grand meeting. I decided that I just wanted to go to our hotel room and relax. It was about 10:30 pm anyway. So I got into my night shirt and laid on my bed and turned on the TV. I was just laying there watching the TV and then I looked over at the sink and vanity area and saw my husband's mother standing there in from of the bathroom door. She never said a word to me or even through telepathy. She just stood there for about 2 minutes.
When my husband finally came back I had told him this. He must have asked me three times if she had said anything to me. She had not. She just stood there looking at me.
The second time that I had an encounter with her was at her funeral. When you walked into the funeral room where she was laid in her casket the picture of her was on the right and there were only a few chairs against that wall. On the right were two sets of rows of chairs for the people to sit and converse with. Between them and the other set of chairs there was an isle. On the other wall in back there was a room. I saw a man standing in the isle. I never saw him before and I kept asking everyone who he was. Nobody else saw him. I explained to them that he had fuzzy hair and it was parted in the middle. Nobody knew who this man was. He was standing there looking at my husband's mother. It was so odd that nobody knew who or what I was talking about or seeing. He was as real as you and I and everyone else that was in the room.
A few days later when we had come home I found lots of pictures of my husband's family. I saw the picture of the man that I saw at the funeral. I have that picture but it is so fragile that I do not even venture to scan it and post it here. I asked my husband who the man was. He told me that it was his mother's father. I never knew him and he passed away many years before I ever met my husband. I had to call my husband's older sister and tell her who it was that I saw. Her father was there waiting to take her home. When it was my turn to go to her casket, I told her that I loved her and that I just wish that we had more time to get to know each other. I do believe that we never really perish and stop living. I do believe that we have soul groups and soul families here and on the other plane and maybe our next incarnations it will be a time that we both are in the same one and learn about each other then.
How Long Did You Wait
After my divorce and swearing off of men for seven years I was told to get out of the house...by a psychic no less. It was near Valentines Day and I was at my wit's end. I had a very ad experience and then a good encounter as I think that I had somewhat of a nervous breakdown and that story is:
Anyway I was told to get out of the house, even it it was going to the grocery store, but I had to get out of the house or something bad was going to happen. That kind of got me looking for places to go. I knew nobody here. I was in school and I had a full time job at the same time. My daughter was living with me at the time too. So where was I going to find the time to go out and socialize?! Anyway I felt that I was being guided. I always feel that I am guided. This time I just so happened to look in the newspaper and there was a Valentine's Dance being held for the singles crowd. I called the phone number and got all the details of where and were and all that. I have never done anything like that. Anyway, on the night of the dance I did get dressed up and my daughter was proud of me and encouraging me.
I get there and meet the DJ. Things progressed with him and then I found out he was married....grrr off of men I thought again. Anyway he did encourage me to come back and he hooked me up with another guy at the dance. *Just a note...the DJ's last name was Alan. The guy that I danced with and met and gave my phone number too and dated for a while...his last name was also Allen. My previous married name was Anderson. Get the drift with the "A"? After the first dance and I gave him my phone number. I didn't think that he would really call me back. The next dance he told me that he did not have a job but that he was in college getting trained for a new kind of career. He had moved here for another job, but that failed a few months later too and so he was in college to learn something new. I said, OK. I don't know what I was thinking or doing. I think that I saw his determination an d not giving up. A few months later I asked him, "How Long Did You Wait for Me?" It was as if I had already knew him and that we would go through some learning experiences together. Our paths never crossed though and I did not understand this feeling that I was having, but, but we are still together after 17 years. Oh we have gone through some really rough times and counseling and all that, but I still think we are to be together as I know that we were waiting on each other. Strange, but true.
At the time that this happened I was living in the house that I live in now. Though things were settling down from being remodeled and my desk was a door that was sitting on top of two small filing cabinets that faced the northwest window. Out this window I also saw some other things through my mind's eye. For now though this is yet another strange experience that I had. While I was typing on the computer I started seeing these comet-like silver balls moving through the air in front of me. I thought that I was at the computer too long and wiped my eyes, closed them for a few minutes and opened them back up again. Those things were still there and still moving. I was not on any drugs or had taken anything and I certainly do not drink any alcohol, but this was really weird.
After watching them for a few minutes the room began to move and I had to hold onto the desk for a few minutes until the room stopped moving. It was not spinning, it was more like moving on a bus or more like a train. Then it just stopped as if nothing happened. I don't know what was up with that either.
Time Shift Number 2:
Another time shift was when I was looking out of my front porch. Then I began to feel slightly dizzy and I had to hold onto the banister of the deck. Things were moving around. I mean the trees of this forest were moving and then the next thing that I saw was a completely different forest. The trees were very tall and there were not bottom branches and the forest floor was clean of any underbrush. The ground was black and smooth. The trees were spaced out about 10 feet from each other, but not in a straight line like rows of vegetables. This lasted about 10 minutes and then I blinked and everything was the same as it was before. Strange and spooky too.
The Indian Massacre I Witnessed
I "saw" part of an Indian Massacre
While sitting at my computer, looking out my window, I saw two small children playing outside in the woods. They looked to be about 3 and 5 years old. The oldest one was a boy and the youngest a girl. I thought they were real and went out to ask them who they were and to find out where they lived. When I got to that side of my house there was nothing there. So I went back inside to continue doing my work.
The next day I saw them again. They were running around and playing like children do. This happened for a few days and I started to just shrug it off. I wondered why they were still here and where there parents were.
I have seen apparitions and ghosts many times while living in this house. There is so much Civil War history here and so much division and sadness that came along with the war. This story was before the Civil War though. It was during the French and Indian War around the 1800's. I began to wonder who these small children were and started to do some research about my area.
Some days I would sit at my computer and I would get light-headed and had to hold on to my desk top because it felt as if I was going to fall on the floor. They were like I told you in the Time Shifts experiences. After the light-headedness faded, I would see them playing again. The woods didn't look like they did before the episode. There were less trees then the present. I was transported to their time but was only as an observer of the things that were happening.
While the children were running in the forest I saw Indians all around. Those Indians were killing all the adults and these two children didn't have a clue as to what was going on. That is why there were playing alone and running and chasing each other and having fun like children do.
As I watched even longer I saw the most horrific thing I have ever seen. As the children were playing and running an Indian on horseback rode up behind them and cut off their heads from behind. It was so quick and the Indian was so precise with his blow that those children didn't know and so they just kept running around playing their games they were playing.
Using telepathy I was finally able to speak to them. I told them that they had died and that their parent's were waiting for them. I told them they would see a bright light and to go towards it. At first they didn't know what I was trying to tell them. It took about three times before they realized what had happened to them. They finally left and went towards the bright light and reunited with their parents.
When my husband's family came to visit us one weekend, they decided that they wanted to stay at the Bed and Breakfast that was in Gerrardstown. We live up over the mountain, but it is still considered Gerrardstown. It had a history of Indian Raids. They didn't like the White Man from taking over their hunting areas. In one of the earlier massacre which happened in the early 1800's the Indians did come to the area and killed all the women and children and they scalped the men. So my "viewing" was founded on truth. There were a total of 7 Indian Tribes that congregated in this area and Mills Gap was known as the gateway to the west. Some of the tribes that used the valley as hunting grounds and fought the white man from colonizing the area were the Shawnee, Iroquois, Occoneechee, Monocans and Piscataways.
While we were living down in Florida We saw lots of ghosts and weird things. This is another one that both my daughters and I saw only they saw one girl and I saw the other. That will be explained later.
During daylight hours in about a 3 month span of time I would be sitting in the living room or the dining room. The rooms were a great room and the dining room was near the large front window and the front door. They faced the street and the window was large enough that you could see the driveway and the neighbor’s house on the opposite corner of the road though we weren't the corner house. Along the front of the house was a cement porch and you could see the whole length from the window too.
One day I saw a girl with long black hair and a long dress with long sleeves walk across our porch. When she came to the door I opened it and there was no one there. I thought some neighbor kids were playing jokes on me. That wasn't out of the ordinary. So I just ignored it.
The very next day I saw the same girl again walk across the front porch and this time I didn't go to the door. I wanted them to knock a few times first. Well she got to the door and no knocking. I didn't see her leave either.
A few days later when my daughters were with me they saw her too and just asked me who she was. I didn't have a clue as to who she was. I assumed they saw the same girl.
Another day goes by and she comes to the door again and nothing. Now we know she is a ghost and not a real person. After a few weeks we didn't see her again. We just thought that she had gotten killed in an accident and was on her way home. It was then when we had discussed what we had seen that my daughter's saw a girl with short black hair and the long dress had short sleeves and she looked the same as the girl that I saw.
So they were twins who got killed in an accident or something on the way from home. The apparently didn't realize that they were killed and their spirits were still on the way home like they did probably a thousand times before. We don't know why they never made it through the front door though.
We can't piece the events or people to the story since we really didn't know anything about the area or who might have lived in the house that we were renting at the time.
There is another strange thing that happened in that house and it is really weird.
"Seeing" My Husband Come Home
Yeah this doesn't sound strange by the title but you will agree with me when I tell you it is creepy. We lived in Deltona, Florida and my husband worked in Orlando, Florida at the time.
My husband worked about an hour from home and he would come home at about the same time every day. Nothing was out of the ordinary with that.
Only this day it was out of the ordinary. It was about 2 hours before my husband would get home and I was thinking of something to cook for dinner. The girls were in their rooms doing homework. I was just gazing out of the window that looks out onto the front yard and into the street, which was named Kimberly Drive. Looking to the left I saw our car in the driveway. I was thinking that something was wrong because he is never home at that time of the day. I got up and started to walk to the window in the kitchen that also looked out at the same area but was closer to the driveway. By then he was already out of the car and walking up the driveway and I watched him step up on the porch. I kept taking double-takes and he looked as real as can be. I have had some other ghostly encounters there as well and they were a bit unnerving to say the least. He wasn't translucent like some ghosts are. So I hurried up to get dinner started. I pulled out the items to cook and then was waiting for him to open the front door. Well I looked around and he wasn't there and neither was the car in the driveway. Sometimes I will get visions of things and then I will get strange feelings and so to be on the safe side and know went to start preparing dinner, I called his work and found that he hadn't even left work yet. Talk about weird and creepy.
To this day I have no idea what that was.
Strange Creatures Come To Visit My Daughter
When my daughter was about 9 years old and we lived in Deltona, Florida I was seeing some really strange things. It all started when her attitude was changing into a very nice and lovely girl to one of defiance and a bit of showing off her body. She was not like that before. She would also lie many times. I understand that when they hit their teen years that the do go through a stage of independence, but she was not even 12 years old at the time. So that was not it at all.
During the night, after the girls would be in bed and sound asleep, I would sit in my living room and see these creatures going from my back yard and passing through the walls into the girls bedroom. They would go straight to my daughter. These creatures looked like to be half wolf and half human. The top would be the wolf and the bottom half the human.It was a bit weird and at first I thought that I was just having an active imagination until my neighbor across the street mentioned these things that she has also seen. So I started to pay attention to these creatures more and more.
While I we were living in Florida I had found that the whole are was filled with ghosts from the past and other strange things. Lake Helen was only about 15 minutes from where we lived in Deltona. The biggest thing was that Cassadaga was also within 1/2 hour of our house. Cassadaga was established in 1894. It is the Spiritualist capital of the world. More than 24 psychics, mediums and other spiritual people live and work there. So having these paranormal experiences was not a new thing, just new to me. That was back in the 1980's and it have changed since then with New Agers and even some Religious groups living in the area.
I was told how to get rid of them, but I do not, to this day think that I really got rid of them totally. I was told to imagine a fire and using the fire to cleanse her room and all the the yard around our house and even into the house itself. I did do this a few times and thought hat it was a done deal. Years later after her father and I divorced she became a very angry girl. She would be very manipulative and if I said anything to help her out I was and am still being lied about and to. She is an adult now and some things still do not make sense as to her thoughts and actions towards me and I think it has spilled over to her sister as well.
Past Life Regression
I did have a past life regression and still have it on cassette tape somewhere. I remember a good part of it. At first when I was being taken down to the state where I was to see things but not have any emotional parts of them I felt that it was all fake. I am still not sure if it was completely me or something else like the power of suggestion. I do understand about that POWER of suggestion. I call it planting seeds though and you just let the suggestion go and whatever the person that you plant the seed is up to them. I have had some good results from this and also some backfires. That is why you just give them the gift and let it go.
The first think that I remember fro my past life regression was being a Viking and on a big ship and crossing the ocean. I was a female in this one and have been a female in all of the three that I remember. I was in a high office or position in that life. That was all that I can remember of that one.
The next one was I was in the UK, most likely Wales, I was also a princess in this life. I was also sexually assaulted in that life. I remember running through meadows full of white and yellow flowers and I was about 12 years old at that time.
The last one was that I was a young adult. I was a very poor person and I lived on the streets. I remember wearing gloves that had no finger tips on them. I also remember that I would go to peoples homes in their back doors where they would give me food to eat. I also remember how cold it was. I don't remember anymore of these.
Light of Awareness
It is kind of hard for me to explain these events or happenings. Every once in a while I would see a light, about the size of a small flashlight, up in the corner of the room and out of the corner of my eye. If I look straight at it I will not see it. These seem to happen before something that I am to become more aware of or am going to go through. They never come when something easy or good is to happen. They seem to show up just before I am to go through some kind of learning process. I still get these off and one and it matters not where I live.
There is another anomaly that has happen too while I lived in Florida and only at that time for some odd reason. I would see something like a starfish but the ends of the points would be rotating in different colors. Those would be good tings that are to come.
I also saw a black starfish type shape and it only came around twice and both times I told it to go away. After the second time it never came back.
A Voice
I have heard a voice call my name a few times. This voice was not of anyone that was around me. Each time that I hear or have heard it, within six months I would make a move to someplace else. The last time that I heard this was when I was married to my first husband. It was early morning around dusk and everyone in the house was sound asleep. Even the dogs and cats were still sleeping. Well I heard this voice call my name. The voice wasn't male nor was it female. It was just a voice and it only said "Debbie". I looked around and I was the only one that was awake. I think it said my name three times and I think it was to make sure that I wasn't hearing it come from anyone in my house at the time. As the time before, we did move within 6 months that I heard the voice. Now these moves are not what you would call a smooth move because there was much change then just moving to a new house. They tend to spook me these things. I have not hear them for a very long time now and that is fine with me.
The first time that I remember was like a knowing. I was told that I would be married and not in the traditional way. I fought that, but it came true anyway. That story is on one of my other blogs here: My First Soul Contract, They Could Not Wait
The second time was when we were living in an apartment and I was told that we would live in a house. We could barley afford to live in the apartment, much less a house at the time. We had two babies and I babysit 5 other children. My last pregnancy was hell. I mean hell! Morning sickness was constant throughout my whole pregnancy, I was on Bendictine and had to quit babysitting and was on complete bed rest.
Low and behold six months later we were living in a house. It was rent to own and was very large. We were there for a couple of years and then a disaster happened and we had to move out, but we had bought a new house and we were building it ourselves....in another state. I did not get that voice then, but when we were going to be moving to Florida, I did get that voice.
That move was not the best move and there were lots of complications surrounding it. That was the last time that I have heard the Voice call my name. My husband got a transfer and he went down there to get a house, which was a rental. His company even paid for the movers. We had to give away most of our pets and animals. I loved the house and we had just got a garden going good. We get down there and all moved in and my husband's company laid him off. So we both took temp jobs cleaning up debris from building sites. We eventually got settled and the kids in school and my husband did get a great job. We ended up getting a divorce down there and well that is another story and no real paranormal with that one, until I met my current husband. I will put that story in my other blog:
UPDATE: SINCE WRITING THIS POST I HAVE BEEN UNFRIENDED AND HARASSED BY MANY AND SO i UNPUBLISHED IT. PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING CRAZY WITH THE RACE AND SLAVERY ISSUE AND CANNOT OR WILL NOT ACCEPT THE TRUTH. I THINK IT IS TIME TO RE-POST THIS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WANT TO CHANGE HISTORY AND TAKE DOWN MANY MEMORIALS TO THOSE THEY SAY LOST. WHEN THAT HAPPENS EVERYONE LOSES.
SO I AM RE-PUBLISHING THIS ARTICLE IN FULL TODAY, AUGUST 3, 2017
This article starts with my rant that I posted on my Face Book Timeline.
My Rant on prejudice and History and .....This USA is going crazy. Now because someone shoots down a couple of people in a church, they now come to the conclusion that a Confederate Flag is the cause of it and that it should be taken off of any government articles. Now they are saying that the flag means some kind of racial thing. Do people realize that they are the ones that are racist for wanting history changed and some deleted altogether? They are going to change more than just the flag. There was a culture in society in the south and it was not all about loyalties. The rich may have been, but there were lots more to the south than that. There were regular people that lived day to day and were not famous for anything. Will you also consider or deflame those who did help with the cause and their livelihood that were black too and how about any of the whites that were in history for the same cause and I mean for both sides and cross overs? Do you all THINK about what you are doing? Isn't the destroying of a part of our nation the same thing that ISIS is doing and those leaders of Islam that don't care for us? Where is all this HATE coming from and is HATE really logical in this world today? I am seeing, and really despise that, a mob mentality, not a single one has any reality going for them.
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It really has become a them and us type of mob mentality spread by mis-information and hatred brought on by something that did not even start with the Confederate flag at all.
It really comes to Dylann Roof's shooting people in a church, in the south. The "SOUTH" has been a part of these states and people and culture for the last 200+ years. All the media is doing is wiping mud and coloring all the good things that the south has given us. This article is going to bring up some of those things and perhaps people will get some education here because they sure as heck are not getting it in their "PUBLIC" school system. How can we learn from the past if we keep shoving it under peoples noses and then turn around and call everything that we ever learned a total lie? How can we shove, into a pit, a part of our history that made us into these "UNITED" States of America?
Have we forgotten all those Northerners AND Southerners that contributed to both side of the free the slave issues? People that died because of their beliefs about people not being slaves on both side of the coin. Slavery wasn't the whole issue and not every had slaves. Some of the people in the south were people just like you and me just living day to day. Only the rich could afford a slave and politics was also heavily into the Civil War. It was not everyone who believe in one side or the other. Some didn't even care, just as it is today and people are just trying to get by and have families and so on and so forth.
In the comments on my face book post there was one that constantly let or told everyone that they thought that the flag was evil and stood for slavery and the Civil War was fought on that only. They got really upset and said that they were going to leave the conversation when they found out that whites were holding up that this flag and it's (their) meaning. The mis-information floors me at times.
First Union Battle Flag of the Civil War
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Many events that may have started The Civil War was started included the need for Civil Rights for all and not for the elite, John Brown's Raid, economics and power and greed. It was not totally about slavery. The South was already in the process of releasing their slaves because they were following Russia's slave freeing at the time and that was just before the Civil War started. The first group that spoke out about the slaves and how they did not like the idea was from the North, by the Quaker religion. Funny that they were the ones that came to this country wanting to be and do as they pleased and not be persecuted for it. The come here and do that persecuting to someone else. The Civil War was started and was about taxation and economics and State rights (to own slaves or not). Northerners also had slaves too, though they weren't called that. The differences was that the South was more of an agriculture hub (cotton), while the North was more about Industrial growth. It is easy to see the complications here and it is also just as easy to see that they were intertwined with each other. The North made machinery that the south needed and the South were feeding and clothing the nation at the time. The slavery issue came long before the Civil War and according to Wikipedia it was more about social norms of a differing kind of people:
"Arguments that slavery was undesirable for the nation
had long existed, and early in U.S. history were made even by some prominent
Southerners. After 1840, abolitionists denounced slavery as not only a social
evil but a moral wrong. Many Northerners, especially leaders of the new
Republican Party, considered slavery a great national evil and believed that a
small number of Southern owners of large plantations controlled the national
government with the goal of spreading that evil. Southern defenders of slavery,
for their part, increasingly came to contend that blacks actually benefited
from slavery, an assertion that alienated Northerners even further."
One of my commenter's also said that the flag that is in question was a battle flag of the South. Well there were battle flags of the North too throughout the Civil War. In battle, the purpose of a flag is to help identify who is
who. Who is on your side, and who is on the other side. Nothing more but people think it is more.
There were three different battle flags the South used. I only found these two:
In
March of 1861, those who supported a flag similar to that of the United States
prevailed,
and the "Stars and Bars"
became the official National flag
of the Confederacy.
Now to the political players that fed into all this. As I looked them up there were more whites than blacks, but that is here nor there. The war and the flags were not about Racism and I cannot stress this enough. Each regiment in the war and on both sides had their own battle flag and they were all different and specific to their company. So to say that this one flag is about race is wrong, completely wrong.
Dividing Line of North and South
For some clarification: There were whites an black on both sides, not just the one side where most of the history you see floating around speaking of racism. It was not about race. For the sake of not writing a book about this, I am only going to list a few.
This map shows the division of North and South. It is also called the Mason Dixon Line.
"Through the first half of the 19th century the
Mason-Dixon Line represented the line of freedom for tens of thousands of
blacks escaping slavery in the south. The Underground Railroad provided food
and temporary shelter at secret way-stations, and guided or sometimes
transported northbound slaves across the Line.
The spirituals sung by these slaves included coded references for
escapees: the song "Follow the drinking gourd" referred to the Big
Dipper from which runaways could sight the North Star; the River Jordan was the
Mason-Dixon Line; Pennsylvania was the Promised Land. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed
slave owners to pursue their escaped slaves into the north, the line of freedom
became the Canadian border, "Canaan" in the spirituals, and
abolitionists created Underground Railroad stops all the way to Canada.
" ---A brief history of the Mason-Dixon Line, John Mackenzie, APEC/CANR, University of Delaware
Freed Slaves in The Union Army
July 17, 1862 was the first Colored Troop to fight in the Union Army. They thought that being those slaves that made it to freedom would have made a bigger impact on the morale's of the Confederacy. Martin Delaney and Frederick Douglass were the first two freed slaves in this troop. 200,000 African Americans served in the Union Army during the Civil War and more than 10,000 died in the Civil War serving in the Union.
The movie "Glory", trailer below, is
about the first formal unit of the Union Army, made up of these African American freed slaves, during the American Civil War
Other Key Players In The Civil War
There were African American women who also served in the United States Colored Troop regiments. One was a nurse, laundress and school teacher, Suzy Baker. After the Civil War she went on to help build a branch of the Women's Relief Corps that served veterans.
Suzy Baker
White men who were confederates also helped free the slaves. One was Granville Hall. He was born in Harrison County Virginia, which is now part f West Virginia, His father was indicted for subscribing to an Antislavery newspaper.
Granville Hall
Hinton Helper
Henry Ruffner
A bit of proof that the Civil War was more than about civil rights and slavery. In 1847 Ruffner stated that slavery was taking jobs from white laborers. He also stated the the older free states were beginning to grow economically while those in the older slave states prosperity was beginning tp show signs of stagnating. Hinton Helper stated that the "Plain Folk of the Old South" were being oppressed by the rich slave owners. He believed that the abolitionists were the South's true friends.
Black Slave Owners As Well As White Ones
Whites were not the only ones who owned slave and they were not the only slave in the South. Northerner also had slaves. African Americans's also owned slave. The three most historical Black Slave Owners were: Willima Ellison, born April Ellison. She took the name of her former slave owner and bought slaves to work on her land in South Carolina. Marie Therese Matoyer freed slave and bought her husband and then they produces 6 children of that union in Louisiana. Anthony Johnson was the first black to come to the states and was the first slave in Virginia. There is lots to red about this and the beginning/roots of the slavery in America on this site: The Black Slave Owners
Women Spies
Belle Boyd
There was also a famous lady Confederate Spy and her name was Maria Isabella Boyd. She went by the name of "Belle" Boyd. She had deep southern roots as her well-to-do family lived there.She was young enough (18 years old) to not be noticed as much but she did have an arrest record. When a Union soldier came into their home and was drunk and talked rudely to her mother Belle took a gun and killed the man. She was only 17 years old. She was not arrested as the investigator deemed that she was in the right to kill him. That began her career as a Rebel Spy. She transported information and supplies to the Confederate Troops.
There was also a couple of other woman spies in the Civil War. One was Emma Edmonds and another Elizabeth Van Lew.
Elizabeth Van Lew
Elizabeth Van Lew, a native of Richmond, VA who had attended
a Philadelphia Quaker school, was an ardent opponent of slavery and pro-Union. “Crazy
Bet” as she was known in Richmond because she used to sing and talk to herself
while going down the street. She freed a
slave before the war started and employed her as a house servant in the home of Jefferson Davis.
Emma Edwards
Emma Edmonds dressed up as a man to to get into the Michigan Volunteer Company and then would go out and spy as a woman. Sneaky one wasn't she?
And finally, John Brown, who was the biggest push for the start of the Civil War, when he raided Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
He was a big part of the Underground Railroad in hiding slave and bringing them to their freedom. He had started his own army which he called the Provisional Army and had 21 followers. 5 of them were African Americans and 16 of them were white. They came from a variety of backgrounds.He was all over the territories and Virginia too. He killed 5 in the Kansas Territory before moving his followers to Maryland where they planned their ambush on Harper's Ferry. It was his goal to take the fort and he did tell Frederick Douglas of his plans to do so. Frederick Douglas told him that he would not get out of that alive. He was hoping that all the slaves of those men that were in Harper's Ferry would join up with his followers, but he was very disappointed when they did not. He killed many people and held many people hostage in that town. He also took over many of the buildings that included, Hall's Rifle Works and the armory and arsenal that was in Harper's Ferry. When he got there and started his raid, someone got word out of what he was doing and the US Marines came in to take control. It was Robert E. Lee that finally came in. John's fatal mistake was when he seized the B & O Railroad for 5 hours.
John Brown's Fort at Harper's Ferry National Park
in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
He took hostages and held them in the fire engine house in Harper's Ferry. That is how it got the name of John Brown's Fort. General Lee asked them to stand down and drop their weapons and they refused. General Lee had his Marines storm the Fire House and a few were killed. John Brown was convicted of murder and reason against the Commonwealth of Virginia on December 2, 1869.
John Brown had hoped that he would be able to "free all the slaves in the South" with this maneuver. General Robert E. Lee thought that he was a madman.
The more and more that I read on this flag and what certain groups of people put into it I come to realize what it really means and why it has such a bad symbolism.
As history unfolds and we learn more and more and the events of today, the flag symbolizes rebellion. Rebellion of what? Rebellion of a way of life that the wealthy Southerners relished in. The rich had their plantations and had to work them to produce their crops and make money. The only way that they saw to do this was to have slaves. They didn't pay taxes on these slaves and they became their property. A slave owner owned the children of the women slaves. It was a profitable business. Many did not see it that way in the South and also in the North. After the Mexican/American War in 1850, 11 years prior to the onset of the Civil War, slavery became an issue to the new territories. Another compromise was the Missouri Compromise (1820), was a federal statute that regulated slavery in the western territories. That raised some issues and there was yet another compromise. In January 1854, it was repealed and the new compromise, the
Kansas/Nebraska Act, which opened up the territory and allowed any white male to decide if he wanted slaves or not. That caused some issues as well and slavery states and territories became to be spotted through out the newly developing United States. That was problem that President Lincoln faced and had to deal with and find a solution for. Along with that he was also involved in making a new state, which at the time had some interesting issues about the Union and Confederate of their own. You can read "West Virginia's Battle To Become A New State" on this blog.
People don't like those who are rebellious and are Anti-Establishment. Other words for this are; anarchist, freedom fighter, heretic, nonconformist, resistance fighter and revolt, take as stand. It bucks the system that everyone "must" follow. The United States at the time just before the Civil War were wanting a complete Unity. With all these slavery issues and territories and the economics of the states, The North just wanted some peace and have the whole of the land be UNITED. That wasn't happening with the states that were seceding from that very Union. So they had to ruffle some feathers, so to speak, and it caused so much uproar to so many people's, but it had to be done. So this flag represents this strife and this anti-establishment and kind of like, dig your heals in, attitude. It causes people to become outraged with what they associate the symbol of that Confederate flag.
For a person to use it as a suggestive to be racist, like Dylann Roof did, is a powerful statement. Though he did use it and put that hatred into people's minds has nothing to do with the Civil War or that Flag perse'. The hatred and the anger should point to the person and not a material symbol. He said that he wanted to start a Civil War and instead of ignoring him we are starting a Civil War, just like he wants. That is crazy!
He used an old symbol to illicit hatred in these United States. Those in Charleston, South Carolina have said they don't feed hate. You could have fooled me! This is exactly what they are doing. Can't you see what the people who are calling Racism for this flag are doing? You are no better than Dylann Roof.
It has been a little over 200 years and we still have not learned a thing or even become a UNITED States. Not even close.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall. I don't think that we will ever be United because we put too much into symbols to stop and Love Our Neighbor.
Yet another place puts it on the Island of Mont Saint Michael, Brittany, France. Avalon was a school for training druids, Priestesses and Bards. According to Meaning of the Name Avillion states: 
Jesus liked it so much that he stayed for a while and making preparations for his mission that he was sent to do. While there it is reported that he made a wattle and daubed hut to live in. Just by hitting his cane on the ground he made a small spring of water come up to the surface. After his death Joseph did come back and they built the first Christian church. There is a report of the many Reverends, notably the Rev. H.A. Lewis, which wrote some of this information down and how Rome came to the Island and Brittany. You can read that and much more on Cornish Legends. There is also new information on DailyMail about a Church that Jesus supposedly built in the town of Somerset in England.
"Here lies buried the famous King Arthur with Guinevere, his second wife, in the isle of Avalon." has eroded over time. Excavating the site in modern times brought about a grave site that was much earlier than that one. It is said that this was manipulated so that they could raise funds to re-build the Abbey, which suffered a devastating fire in 1184 and was in desperate need of money.
