At the top of Glastonbury sits a striking modern age stone circle, built in 1992 to represent the festival’s pagan roots and its connection to Stonehenge and the summer solstice. On Wednesday evening, thousands of people gathered at dusk around the newly sacred site, chanting the mantra ‘aaummmmmm’ out over the hill, before outstretching their arms, and spreading peace to each of the cardinal points whilst in song. “Peace to the eaaaast!”
In true Glastonbury tradition, the mass meditation was led by respected spiritual leaders from various Earth-based religions who were there to call for unity, peace and love at the Green Fields opening ceremony. Hanging in the sky were women in long white gowns, seemingly levitating (hoisted on thin bendy stilts) and flying around like witches in the dark. Later, the event’s Flame Of Hope ritual reached its apex, which saw 15 sacred flames from spiritual sites across the globe, including Glastonbury, Hiroshima, Mount Sinai and Stonehenge, combined in one single fire in a burning of a giant, wooden effigy.
