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The Gatekeeper Trust is devoted to personal and planetary healing through pilgrimage. It seeks to rediscover the ancient art of pilgrimage as a way of journeying – with an awareness of the sacred nature of our environment. It researches both ancient and modern knowledge about the landscape and shares it through an annual programme of journeys and workshops.

EVENTS

We have the following national events planned for the forthcoming year:

Sunday 5th May 2024 12:00 UK time – Sound in the Landscape

Following on from our very successful collaboration taking Light in the Landscape last October, we invite you to celebrate Beltaine with us by taking Sound in the Landscape. This again will be a collaboration, coming together at one time in our own sacred spaces to honour the land and the guardians of the land in song, chant, sounding, words or instrument.

Further information can be found by clicking here.

We have added some further resources in the music section of the website which we hope will provide further inspiration as you move into the Land. They can be found here – MUSIC RESOURCES. We are grateful for those who have contributed to this major resource.

We hope you will be able to join us and help generate a network of sound as we achieved with Light last year.

Saturday/Sunday 17th/18th August 2024 Gatekeeper Trust Pilgrim’s Weekend
Isle of Portland, Dorset

We are very pleased to announce a collaboration with the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust under which Gatekeeper Trust will sponsor a stone as part of the development of a significant modern landscape project in this very special place. We plan a day of talks and walks within which we will dedicate the stone with song, poetry and dance.

Further activities are planned over the weekend. We are very pleased to say that the details for our Pilgrim’s Weekend in the sacred Isle of Portland have now been finalised and they can be found here. To book places on the weekend, click on the orange button and you will be taken to the booking page to complete the process.

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Wheel of Life

We would love you to join us in the Gatekeeper Wheel of Life Events in pilgrimage and expressive arts.

Conference Videos:

Videos from the talks at our Annual Conferences for the previous few years are available to watch on our website and on YouTube. Click here to watch online.

How does pilgrimage help the Earth?

peter-dawkins-clr“The old saying that every pilgrim leaves footprints of light that others might follow and add to, is no idle saying. The Earth can be turned into light through pilgrimage, and there is a science associated with how this is done.

Love is an energy, and all things including ourselves are built out of energy… If our energy is loving, then we affect other energy fields that we touch or move in with that love.

We can both give and receive love, in mutual benefit. In such a way a pilgrim’s relationship with the Earth, with the landscape, can be a love relationship. Just like us, the Earth longs for such love and calls us to love her. The Earth in her love for us helps us towards illumination, and we can help her towards hers. That is the hidden purpose of pilgrimage – the so-called redemption of mankind and Nature, the raising of all to light, wherein Light is the manifestation of Love.”

Peter Dawkins, Elder and co-Founder

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