GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: TORC, Glastonbury Voices …

Journal of the ‘New Glastonbury Community’, edited by Patrick Benham. 15 issues, 1971 to 1975.
 

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1  September 1971
Psychometry on the Tor – Iris Campbell and J Foster Forbes; anti-hippy petition; Centering – the yin and yang of food; ‘Why & Wherefore’ – the ‘call’ to Glastonbury; plus events and news, recipes, poetry, things for sale.

Available as photocopied facsimile (19 A4 pages):
Price £1.90

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2  November 1971
Glaston and the Phoenix; Rollo Maughling’s open letter to the Chalice Well trustees (regarding access to the Well); The Wheel of Life – the gardener’s year; Recommended books and magazines; plus events etc.

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Price £1.90

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3  February 1972
‘Why I Love Glastonbury’; Caravan eviction from Silver Street car park; more on access to Chalice Well; ‘Roots’ recipes; Review of John Michell’s ‘The View Over Atlantis’;  plus gardening tips, poetry, things for sale etc.

Available as photocopied facsimile (21 A4 pages):
Price £2.10

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4  May 1972
Glastonbury Tor ‘part of a cosmic experiment’; continuing harassment of caravan dwellers; Easter information centre; talk by Geoffrey Ashe; Garden Scene – making compost; Herby Thynges; ‘The Return Road from Avalon’ – ley lines and Glastonbury Zodiac; A defence of sacred measures; Review of John Michell’s ‘City of Revelation’; plus letters, poetry, things for sale etc.

Available as photocopied facsimile (21 A4 pages):
Price £2.10

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5  Midsummer 1972
Solstice thoughts; news and events; Avalon and Atlantis; ‘Changing Relationships and Life Today’; Why is Glastonbury the Cradle of the Future?; ‘The Island Valley of Avilion’; ‘The Aquarian Hour …’; The Craft (industry) Philosophy; ‘Don’t Smash the System, Just Leave it to Die from Neglect’; Witchcraft – The Craft of the Wise; plus wine making, poetry, births marriages & deaths, etc.

Available as photocopied facsimile (21 A4 pages):
Price £2.10

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6  October 1972: 
Archangel Michael and the Tor; Dutch Elm disease; ‘Live in Joy, All is a Reflection’; The View from the Tor; news & events; ‘The Dancing Lady’ (faery story); Terrestrial Zodiacs; ‘Awakening the Enchantments of Britain’ – Ley lines/Tree of Life/Tarot paths.

Available as photocopied facsimile (27 A4 pages)
Price £2.70

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7  February 1973 (dated 1972!)
‘The Return of Christ’; more on the Tarot and Tree of Life; ‘L’Apocalisse’ and Glastonbury; ‘The Time is Up!’ (story); Walnut Cottage – Drug Dependants’ Care Group; ‘The Illusion called Evil’ – Wellesley Tudor Pole; Our Atlantean Ancestry; ‘Whatever Happened to Lancelot Quail?’ – Welfare State Theatre; The Tor – built as an enormous statue of a lion, 25,000 BC?

Available as photocopied facsimile (24 A4 pages)
Price £2.40

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8  Easter 1973: 
‘The Secret of Eternal Youth’; Tor Research – ‘If the Tor is a man-made structure …’; expanded news section; The Teaching Story; Abbey café; ‘Albion Awakes’ (cartoon); ‘From Peace to Pollution’ – Glastonbury/London; ‘The Grail Procession’ and the body and blood of Christ; Summer in Glastonbury (from ‘Time Out’ magazine).

Available as photocopied facsimile (27 A4 pages)
Price £2.70

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9  ‘The Glastonbury Fact and Fancy Magazine’, June 1973
‘The Purpose of Initiation’; ‘Tripping the Transcendental’ – LSD; ‘The Burger in the Sky’; The Tales of the Sands (story); Raising Conscious-ness, Glastonbury the New Jerusalem; The Glastonbury Legends (cartoon); ‘Look West Young Man’ – Age of Aquarius; Review of Geoffrey Ashe’s ‘King Arthur’s Avalon’; news 

and events – midsummer and beyond; Foots Barn Theatre; plus other mags, poetry, etc. 

Available as photocopied facsimile (31 A4 pages)
Price £3.10

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10  September 1973
The Heritage that is Britain;  Suggestions for strengthen-ing the Community; Caravan dwellers; The Healing Waters of Aquarius at Glastonbury; ‘The Real Alternative’ society; Notes on The Twelve Hides of Glaston; The Garden (story); News, including Assembly Rooms Squat, on-going story of the Abbey Café, demolition of Tor House at Chalice Well; 

The Powder Blue Castle (story); Home in a disused Pigsty. 

Available as photocopied facsimile (33 A4 pages)
Price £3.30

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11  December 1973 
“Perhaps the much publicised era of ‘The Glastonbury Hippies’ is almost at its close”; ‘The Inner Secret’ – Glaston-bury Geomancy; The Breath – reflections on a meditation; Review of Geoffrey Ashe’s ‘The Finger and the Moon’; John Michell on the Glaston-bury Zodiac; ‘The Grail in Chivalry’; Plans for Windsor Free Festival; Alexis and the 

Mushrooms (cartoon); The (Celtic) Orthodox Church of the British Isles;  News and Views’; Constructive criticism of the New Glastonbury Community? 

Available as photocopied facsimile (32 A4 pages)
Price £3.20

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12 March 1974
The New Age in Ireland; L’Ordre Monastique d’Avallon; Lots of Letters; Exactly where was Abbot Whiting executed?; Something that Jumped into Baggins’ Head (story); news and such, reviews etc.

Available as photocopied facsimile (25 A4 pages)
Price £2.50

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13  June 1974
‘The Glastonbury Vision’; Morganeth – Beautiful Evil (story); Aquarian Birdman Lives! – Pre-historic hang-gliding over the Glastonbury Zodiac?; The I Ching/Tarot relationship; Get The Strength of the Insurance Companies Around You (cartoon); Glastonbury, a survival guide for newcomers; a few words from Tim Henry; news, including the Green Bus; A note on the Glastonbury Zodiac; plus numerous other bits & pieces.

Available as photocopied facsimile (33 A4 pages)
Price £3.30

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14  Autumn 1974
‘The Unknown Holy Place’ – Geoffrey Ashe on Melkin’s Prophecy; lots of news, letters etc; Glastonbury’s Astronomical Clock; The Aquarian Centre, Butleigh Wootton – talks etc; A New Kind of Pilgrimage – Cornwall to Glastonbury along the Michael Line.

Available as photocopied facsimile (20 A4 pages)
Price £2.00

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15  ‘Glastonbury’s Answer to the Readers’ Digest’, March 1975
‘The Unknown Holy Place’ part 2; The Dove Centre – what’s happening?; Ley Lines – where do they lead us?; Awaiting the Computer Analysis of Leys; news, letters etc, including new plans for Chalice Well.

Available as photocopied facsimile (20 A4 pages)
Price £2.00