What is a Landscape Temple?

One of the best essays describing landscape temples and why they matter was written many years ago by Sir George Trevelyan. Take time to perhaps print it out and and read it without distraction.. Bear in mind that this exceptional mind was writing at a different epoch from that in which you read it now and so terms such as "man" should be accepted in the context of their time. He has much to teach us now and there is a wealth of his inspirational writings and essays to guide our feet and train our minds.

In recognising and working with landscape temples today one need look no further than Peter Dawkins. Peter has been pioneering the rediscovery of landscape temples and making knowledge of their existence, and how to work with them in positively healing and uplifting ways, increasingly more public.He describes them as a landscapes "which have underlying them an integral geomantic energy system with a complete set of chakras and auric field". He stresses "Their importance cannot be underestimated, since we live and have to live in natural environments, whatever we might build on top, and each of them is an energy field affecting our health, vitality and consciousness. They can be enhanced and kept healthy by what we do or build, or they can be impaired and crippled by our ignorant actions or selfish intentions.There is a right approach to a full consciousness of such sacred landscapes, and proper preparation and training is an essential part of this."

In these busy times, we have forgotten how to walk on the earth in a simple and sacred way with awareness. The Gatekeeper Trust seeks to recover this ability to be in tune with the landscape. We offer journeys and workshops where people can rediscover their connection with the Earth and with Spirit in a simple and loving way.

In less mechanized times when people walked the Earth because for most of the populations there was no option, it was easier to feel the living landscape beneath your feet and appreciate the energies of a place. This description by Yogesh Gokhale of how in Karnataka State in India the reverence towards Sacred Groves has endured sheds light on how it has been in Europe.