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Lawrence Main hikes from Callanish to London via Stonehenge

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 08 April 2004  Page Views: 11384

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Callanish I submitted by Ingo Bauer : Callanish 1 After we had taken a few fotos on a cloudy afternoon, suddenly the sun came out and we felt, that we had to continue to make fotos with sunlight. It was a wunderful moment, because we visited the place only for a few hours. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Something I spotted in a Times column: "This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Vegan Society and to celebrate Lawrence Main is hiking from Callanish to London, because that’s the sort of thing these people do."

To celebrate their happy contribution to national life these past six decades, Main will be undertaking his mammoth yomp.

“I am not doing this to raise money for anything,” he says, further underlining the belief that vegans are all heart. “I am doing it for the love of it. To me it’s not just a vegan walk, but a pilgrimage.”

Because the walk will take in various points of interest to Main — Stonehenge is top of the list, you won’t be surprised to hear — he expects to cover 2,700 miles, which is more than sufficient distance in which to get lost, we fondly hope.

“I wanted to go,” he adds, “not just to walk, but to sleep and dream on all these sites.”

More: Condescending article.

Perhaps someone who knows Lawrence will put him in touch as we'd be delighted to relay news of his exploits in rather less condescending terms.

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Re: Lawrence Main and mystic dreams by TimPrevett on Monday, 26 February 2007
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I spent much of an evening and the next day with Lawrence just over a year ago. While I myself would not want to replicate his exact lifestyle, he certainly can show you an interesting place or two; a fascinating man. He writes a lot of walking guides, and has penned a good number of articles for Arriva Trains Wales in the last few years.
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Re: Lawrence Main and mystic dreams by Anonymous on Monday, 26 February 2007
I met Laurence several years ago after reading an article on mystic dreams on Carn Ingli. I went and I dreamt on top of the sacred hill, while Laurence recorded my dreams. Indeed, the dreams were very... mythological and feminine. The view of the amphitheatre of hills from the top was impressive and brought me back to what it must have been like for our ancestors many centuries ago. It was a great experience, I would highly recommend it. Jessica from Milan, Italy
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Re: Lawrence Main hikes from Callanish to London via Stonehenge by Andy B on Thursday, 08 April 2004
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Hillwalking Special: Companion looking for supernatural activity on Schiehallion is warned off by the freezing conditions
By Cameron McNeish, The Sunday Herald

THE spirit of the Cailleach Bheur, the blue hag who according to Rannoch legend rides the wings of the storms to deal out her icy death to unfortunate travellers, was clearly manifesting her cold charms on the upper reaches of Schiehallion.

My companion was more in tune with these curios than I was. Lawrence Main was in the second week of a length of Britain pilgrimage visiting ancient, sacred sites. He had started his mammoth walk at the Callanish Standing Stones on Lewis and had worked his way south via Culloden’s Clava Cairns and Bennachie. I had collected him from his lonely camp at the head of Glen Lyon where he had been visiting the old yew tree at Fortingall (Pontius Pilate is said to have been born in the area) and the Praying Hands of Mary, a set of split standing stones in the upper reaches of the glen.

Main writes walking guides for a living, and lectures on Earth Mysteries. He is a druid and the purpose of his walk is to raise publicity for the Vegan Society. “If we were all vegans we’d only need 10 million acres of agricultural land to supply our needs,” he said, “that’s a quarter of the agricultural land in England and Wales alone.”

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Re: Laurence Main's Mammoth Walk! by DavidRaven on Wednesday, 18 February 2004
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From a letter sent to me by Laurence Main:-

'The Vegan Society's Diamond Jubilee has decided to take me on a journey. Would you like to join me along sections of the route? Could you help arrange opportunities to deliver the vegan message to local TV, radio and in the press?

Walking in the countryside is a spiritual exercise, bringing contact with the living goddess. It is loving the land. Hence the relevance to the vegan message. Hence my starting at Imbolc (1 February) from Callanish on the Isle of Lewis, the time and place special to the goddess Bridget.
Switching to the mainland, the battlefield of Culloden is swiftly followed by the Clava cairns. Then it's along the coast to Findhorn before cutting inland towards Aberdeen by way of the holy hill of Bennachie, guarded by a giant. Will we find the fabled keys?

Stone circles abound and Diarmid's Grave is passed before Pitiochry. Cup-marked rocks herald the mystical heart of Fortingall, home to the ancient yew. A climb of 3570ft leads to the summit of Schiehallion, the fairy peak said to have been visited by Jesus and where a cave in its side leads to the'Underworld.
A ley links Croft Moraig’s stone circle with a rock split to form the Praying Hand’s of Mary above Glen Lyon, home to St Adamnan’s Stone and the tiny Bhacainor dog’s head stone. Follow this line to the home of the hag, her husband and children at Taigh-nan-Bodach. Then it’s the West Highland Way to Glasgow.

April brings the Clyde Walkway to Lanark and a borderland stroll to Stow-in-Wedale (the Saxon's Dale of Woe) near Lauder, where the fragmen of King Arthur's shield are preserved. It is the one bearing the image of the goddess (or the Virgin Mary, take your pick) used in his eighth battle. St Cuthbert's Way leads from the grave of the wizard Michael Scot at Melrose to the Eildon Hills, where Thomas the Rhymer met The Fairy Queen. Shall we choose the narrow road of rightousness, the broad road of wickedness or the bonny road to fair Elfland?

We'll take the Pennine Way into England, meeting Hadrian's Wall near Haltwhistle. Why not walk with me down the spine of England to reach a vegan rally (organised by the Vegan Organic Trust) in Manchester on Tuesday, 25 May? .
It's not far to Wales and a pilgrimage up the Dee Valley, over Aran Fawddwy (2971ft), past the site of King Arthur's last battle at Camlan near Dinas Mawddwy, the Centre for Alternative Technology and coastal paths to the sacred peak of Carn Ingli in Pembrokeshire. This is the place to spend the summer solstice on 21 June. Visit the cathedral of the famous vegan St David before turning east through South Wales to reach Gloucester by the end of July.
Skip along the delightful Cotswold Way to Bath in August, followed by the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge and tiie cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester. Follow the South Downs Way in September past the Long Man of Wilmington to Eastbourne. The Saxon Shore Way leads to the Vegan Society HQ near Hastings and Plamil at Folkestone.
The final lap is a walk along the North Downs Way in October. Canterbury is visited on the way to Guildford. Head north to join the Thames Path for a mass rally through the centre of London before the Vegan Society AGM in Conway Hall on Saturday, 30 October, 2004.'



He welcomes offers of accomodation (even space to pitch a tent), publicity en route and walking companions.
I'm planning to join him for a day or two when he walks part of the Pennine Way in May.
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