Visions

Visions of Glastonbury

We include here an inspiring collection of Visions for the next twenty years expressed and shared from within our own meetings, followed by The Glaston Group Gathering at Abbey House from a group of about 70 people.

Glaston Group Visions 2005-2025

  • Glastonbury once again recognised as a great spiritual centre
  • Create a University of the Spirit
  • Have an environmentally and spiritually conscious community
  • Provide courses, workshops, research and teaching on all aspects of raising consciousness
  • A new Glastonbury Charter?
  • A ‘Council of Good Counsel’
  • Research into economic impact of spiritual activity
  • Online and residential courses established
  • Working more closely with local schools
  • Creating well-organised research facilities
  • A ‘Temple of Unity’
  • A Sanctuary where people come for peace and tranquillity
  • More hireable meeting spaces
  • Funding and practical help for new projects
  • Co-ordinated websites
  • Comprehensive and up-to-date information on all pilgrimage activities and events
  • An annual paper/electronic directory of the town
  • Proper external promotion of the town through all media
  • Work towards an understanding of pilgrimage activities by all establishment organisations
  • An Arts Centre
  • A Theatre
  • A Conference Centre
  • Planting an oak forest
  • Greening of the town- Glastonbury as example of ‘sustainable’ living.


Abbey House Autumn 2006

  • Car free and tree lined streets
  • More education and services for young people
  • Unity within the community. No more divisions
  • Create a city of Peace and Education
  • Preserve the environment and sacred places
  • Pioneer alternatives and create Alternative Technical Excellence
  • Create a geometric Temple space for community
  • An emergency night shelter
  • Become the ‘New Jerusalem’ bringing spirit into matter
  • A Town Council that can represent the diverse community
  • Affordable housing
  • A carbon neutral community. Lifestyle changes. Transitionculture.org
  • Become green capital of South West after ITN news interest and coverage
  • Spiritual education in schools
  • A Pilgrim Reception Centre
  • An academic facility. A Glastonbury Academy
  • Professional help for community projects
  • The Glastonbury Charter reinstated
  • A railway link restored
  • Create a positive agenda for the community
  • Disabled access improved
  • Residents inspired to register and vote in local elections
  • Find work for people ‘landing’ in town
  • A presentation of these ideas in town.

 

Photo © Lesley Delamont

These visions of what Glastonbury could become are placed here to inspire and act as yeast in the dough, in order to nourish ‘the fields of Avalon’.

We hope you find some of them exciting, provocative and stimulating. They are listed here merely as suggestions towards a future, which we can all help to create.

 

 

 

 

This is what we are about:

We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities,
We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.

Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero