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A light bulb moment from the fiction of Moyra Caldecott

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Many years ago David Goddard introduced me to the fictional writing of Moyra Caldecott. Her stories captivated me, covering mythical and magical themes against backdrops which included Ancient and Roman Britain, Glastonbury, Egypt and Bronze-age Greece.  Her trilogy, “Guardians of the Tall Stones” blew me away. As a great adventure of initiation and the Mysteries, the Guardians saga is interspersed with profound inner teachings which remind me from time to time of some of the “channeled” elements in the fictional writing of Dion Fortune.  Round about the end of the 1990's, I was blessed to be able to meet Moyra at an event David arranged at Avis Ades’ home in Wiltshire. A beautiful person, charming and vastly knowledgeable, she occasionally let slip a mischievous twinkle from her eyes. Etched into my consciousness, I will cherish this meeting for the rest of my life. The meeting came at a point in time when I was really struggling to relate to something my then teac