During my voyages of discovery around the world, I received inspiration from unexpected encounters that I would like to share with you. Sometimes you have to go far away to get closer. This time: ‘A journey of unity in the ‘Chalice Well Garden’ in Glastonbury, UK.
Some times and places invite you more easily to unwind and gather ‘images’ that matter. As I experienced in the powerful energy spot ‘The Chalice Well Garden’ in Glastonbury, South England. Images that gave me a strong, new neural connection between my eyes, the earth, the moon, and the sun. Sounds strange, doesn't it? But the images undeniably showed me that, in essence, everything is connected to everything else, and that this awareness gives a whole new direction to work and life. Take a look:
I had just been to the caves of ‘Chedar Gorge’, where suddenly the ‘Ave Maria’ sounded from speakers in Mother Earth. I can’t really describe it, but I felt deeply moved. After an hour’s journey to Glastonbury, I went straight into the garden of the Chalice Well, where there were natural springs situated in a very powerful energy spot.
I decided to lie down on my back somewhere in a secluded spot in the garden and put on shamanic drum music. And I let myself be carried away by a dream of images. And it started very simply.
Earlier in the day at the caves, I had seen a crevice in the rock with a large spiderweb. The spider, which was devouring prey, had spun a very beautiful web. And spontaneously the following thought came to mind: just imagine that in my head, my brain, a new web is being woven of connections that better suit my new state of being and living now?
That felt good, and I asked if those new connections could be woven by a sort of ‘Spiderwoman’. Next, I saw a triangular line from the left and right corners sliding from the left toward the center, and one sliding from the right toward the center. Because they met in the middle, they formed a diamond shape, vertically. That vibrated a little, and suddenly an eye emerged. And when I kept looking at it longer, the eye became the earth, and the earth became the eye again. Images alternating in the same spot.
And then an insight suddenly emerged: just imagine looking into the earth with your eyes, or having the earth in your eyes. What does that do? What would we see and how would this affect our choices and behavior?
I stayed with it and just let it do its own work. And a new stream of images emerged. Over the eye in the center came a kind of eyelid, but an eyelid shaped like a crescent moon that was becoming increasingly full. And as it became fuller, it diminished again. Only this happened so super fast, like with a reptile's eye or an insect's eye, where the lid moves over the eye very quickly.
It was as if the moon was turning on and off over that eye very rapidly. But at the same time, the moon suddenly became the sun, and then immediately the sun became the moon again. Just like that, over the image of the eye, which was also the earth. Hard to follow, but this is what was shown.
So there were four different images sliding over each other: the eye, the earth, the moon, and the sun. Connected to each other in this way, all in the same place.
That stream of images continued for a while. And then I thought: how beautiful it would be if this new consciousness of everything being interconnected (if only we see it with this conscious eye) were to unfold within me, to take root in my entire system!
And then I asked if a new tree could imaginarily start growing inside me as an image to ground and anchor this consciousness within me. I hoped for my favorite Sequoia tree, but an apple tree appeared, and it grew from the top to the bottom.
It began with an image of a canopy, then branches with apples, to a trunk, and the trunk went down to growing roots that went right through my legs, as it were, into the ground.
After I had seen this, and had woken up, I went for a walk to the two cedar trees standing a little further away. I stood between the two trees, gazing at the distant plain before me where a lake was said to have once been. The place where ‘The Lady of The Lake’ from the Arthurian legend was said to be. In my thoughts and from my heart, I imagined that she was there again. I asked her to give me those new roots and to anchor the new consciousness of total connection, and to live and work more in accordance with that.
This deeply felt experience felt like a new spiderweb in my brain. As if new neural connections of consciousness had been made in my brain. It made me more powerful to look more closely at how we can all live more in connection with our true selves and with each other and all that is shown to us, and to work from that perspective as well. But also at how we can look at the earth and the world with the-earth-in-our-eyes and the eyes-in-our-earth, and what each of us does or does not do with that.
I could not have foreseen then that this would later take partly root in my subsequent book, among others: Spirited Personal Leadership – for effective work, meaningful living, and a better world. In which it contains grounded insights, practical situations, ‘tools,’ and exercises to create that connection within yourself and with one another and everything around us.
Surprise yourself once in a while: seek out an energy spot every now and then, rest, and visualize. Let the flow of images do its own natural work, ask inviting, spontaneous questions, and who knows, you might wake up with a new beginning that enriches your work and life.
Have a good journey! Martin
© 2026: Martin Thoolen
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