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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

The Gatekeeper Trust celebrates 40 years on 5/5/23. Our thanks go especially to Peter Dawkins for the creation of this inspirational charity – RUBY ANNIVERSARY

Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd October 2023
Our Annual Conference event this year, Gatekeeper Trust’s 40th Anniversary year, will take place over the weekend of 21/22 October and will comprise an online/outside event around the UK and elsewhere.

The overarching theme will be “Bringing Light into the Landscape” using the British Landscape Zodiac as our guide.

 

We will be sharing various on-line resources through these times to continue our work in the landscape as a collective. Subscribe to the newsletter below to be updated. You can also check in to the Gatekeeper Facebook page.

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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