Crop Circle Symposium
Sunday, 24 July 2005
GRAILS, GODHEAD AND MORPHIAN CONTACT
An Exclusive Lecture by Andrew Collins
Cracking THE DA VINCI CODE is easy. Just string together a whole load of unsolved Christian mysteries, and peddle them as the answer to the quest for the Grail. As might be expected, such modern conceptions of prevailing myths never lead to spiritual satisfaction, even though physical Grails are out there to be found. For two and a half years Andrew was himself custodian of what is arguably the most authentic Grail cup in Britain - a small scent jar of first-century Near-eastern origin fashioned in green alabaster. Believed to be associated with the cup used by the Magdalene to anoint Christ with spikenard oil, it was found concealed in a cave grotto in Shropshire and is known today as the Hawkstone Grail. It is the subject of his most recent book TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GRAIL (Virgin, 2004).
Yet search deeper and you will realise that the Grail quest is not about
finding cups and chalices - it is the quest for direct communication
with God, a spiritual concept for which the Cathars of Southern France
were savagely hunted down and slaughtered in their thousands during
the Albigensian Crusade of the thirteenth century. Moreover, there is
good evidence that the 'grail' - a Languedoc word simply meaning 'a
pot in which to put liquid' - was not originally a cup but a skull,
seen as an embodiment of 'Godhead', in other words a means of talking
to God himself. Oracular heads have been used by human society since
time immemorial for such purposes. Palaeolithic caves in Southern France
show abstract human heads emitting serpents, symbols of otherworldly
contact during trance states. The Neolithic peoples of Europe and Western
Asia saw the skull as the seat of the soul, and used them for ancestor
communications, while medieval accounts of the Knights Templar speak
of them worshipping an oracular head called BAPHOMET, Greek for 'Baptiser
of Wisdom'. Even today, it is the talking head cult that promises to
provide the clearest solution to the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau.
So what does direct communication with 'Godhead' actually mean? How
can it throw new light on the mysteries not only of the Grail, but also
the enigmatic Glastonbury Zodiac, a Grail quest in its own right, and
the perceived extra-terrestrial contact provided by crop formations?
To even begin to comprehend such notions will require the audience to
become aware of new theories regarding the existence of trans-dimensional
super-intelligences utterly beyond any previous comprehension. It is
this task that Andrew Collins promises in his exclusive lecture for
the Crop Circle Symposium.
Andrew Collins is the founder of the psychic questing movement, in which inspired ideas and psychic information are used to achieve goals such as finding hidden artefacts, solving landscape mysteries or exploring historical enigmas. He was a UFO researcher for many years, investigating Britain's first ever reported alien abduction (the Aveley case in 1977), and extensively studied the crop circle mystery during the 1990s. This resulted in two essential books on the subject - THE CIRCLEMAKERS (1993) and ALIEN ENERGY (1994). Aside from various historical books on mysteries of the past, such as FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS (1996) and TUTANKHAMUN - THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY (2002), Andrew has penned various books on psychic questing, including THE BLACK ALCHEMIST (1988), THE SEVENTH SWORD (1991) and his most recent work TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GRAIL (2004). Andrew is also the organiser of the Questing Conference, Britain's most popular annual event on forbidden archaeology, revisionist history and mysteries of the mind. It is now in its nineteenth year.