The Gate Of Remembrance 1918 -Fredrick Bligh Bond

In 1908, Fredrick Bligh Bond was appointed director of excavations at Glastonbury Abbey by the Church of England. He aimed to locate the foundations of the Edgar Chapel and the Loretto Chapel, whose precise locations had been lost for centuries following Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.  Bond, alongside his friend John Alleyne (a pseudonym for Captain John Bartlett), turned to automatic writing—a process where a person enters a relaxed state and writes down messages without conscious control. Not what I do but interesting nevertheless. The scripts produced during these sessions claimed to come from a collective memory of long-deceased medieval monks, most notably a monk named Johannes. The messages provided detailed structural dimensions, architectural descriptions, and exact layouts of where the missing chapels once stood. Using the measurements provided in the psychic scripts, Bond ordered digs in areas previously ignored by other researchers. To the shock of the scientific community, his excavations uncovered the foundations of the Edgar Chapel exactly where the automatic writings claimed they would be. Church officials and mainstream archaeologists publicly rejected his claims, downplayed the role of his "psychic writings," and tried to write him out of the official history of the Glastonbury digs. On a more personal level my wife Shona had a vision of a place she had never been. On visiting Glastonbury Abbey months later the exact vision she had seen was found, that vision was the Edgar Chapel Bond had found! This book was a personal great favourite of the late Michael Bentine.

Fredrick Bligh Bond