With his critical thinking and oratorial skill I do wish that Neil would stand as a (independent?) Parliamentary candidate at the next Elections. Become a glittering tessara in the mosaic or jigsaw of history. Outshine the dross of Klaus Schwab's Young Global Leaders!!
@@frankraw9991 In the current criminal world, being an independent MP means nothing. Westminster knows how to control & limit awkward individuals. The main media too. If they decide they don’t like you, you’ll get zero friendly interfere.
Thank you Neil. I know you as an Archaeologist but think of you as an Historian! Or as a "distiller of wisdom" from our past . . . these windows into the past show us a wiser way forward.
For me, archaeology is the embodiment of our history and therefore forms an integral part of it. History is inseparable from the present -- if only we learnt from it. It's Neil's perceptive insight into both which brings both together and provides us with greater understanding of where we come from, and who - and what - we are as a species. It's my food-for-thought fix every week. I love them all.
Neil, I'm a dedicated follower, brilliant message especially today about history! I feel like history is what wraps us in security, embracing, and emboldening us to have faith in what's to come. As a day past, can be retold, but the future is a mystery, yet onwards we go!
I love your work Neil, especially the comments you have on our current situation. Now history, that's where we may differ. Some scholars have mused that our history may not be anything like we've been taught. Some even say that many of these buildings where originally a way to gather energy from the ether. (Please pardon my spelling).
Neil Oliver is so ‘on point’ for these testing times. Insights and opinions that cut through the drivel of MSM to reveal or suggest what might really be going on in our trembling world .
I'm from Gateshead, which used to be part of County Durham, as did most of the area south of the Tyne, prior to the implementation of Tyne and Wear as a county in its own right. I have visited Durham, and the Cathedral many times, and never fail to feel amazed, and awed by the skill and talent of the original builders. Such an awesome sight for the eyes.
I can't help but feel we've lost the collective will to create anything as beautiful today. May we rediscover our power as people to work together to build something wonderful that will outlast us for 1000 years.
Well we saw some amazing cathedrals in Spain. You won’t ever make me believe they weren’t made from men of another time who had patience and driven by a desire to have a place to Worship God. In the Bible God gave specific instructions for the building of His Temple. As Neil says there’s an awe in being there and mostly His presence.
Never been to church per se but Im also very drawn to Churches, Cathedrals and Abbeys. Even recently I've been inside 4 different Suffolk churches. I do like going to churches when they're used for talks or classical evenings.
Churches were built as a place to block out the world and focus on deeper values that transcend this world. There is a hole in our hearts that can only be filled with the God of creation.
I’m a 73 year old native Californian. I’ve loved history since I was 13. I have long been alarmed at the lack of history taught in our schools. Then I watch sadly as we repeat the terrible things in history.
So true Neil. Cathedrals and churches , big or small , have a magnetic power about them, no matter your religion, An awe and admiration for our ancestors. Gloucester cathedral was magnificent. Walking in the footsteps of Edward II . 🤩
Such a wonderful accounting of the lands. I so wish that you were to offer tours to those wanting to discover the beauty of the land. I so hope and pray that one day my wife and I can come to visit this gorgeous area.
Beautiful buildings many churches ! I don't go to church either ! I once took some photographs of the St James church in West Littleton , they were doing repairs on the spire if I remember correctly , and the photos were sold in aid of the repairs , There was only about 15 or so photos and they were sold for about 50 pence or a pound , so it was only a small help , but I was very proud of them ! But inside the church , well , it just had this beautiful ambience and peace about it ! Just a lovely place to be , if you are ever near the area it's well worth a visit !
Neil , I am exactly the same . I'm always drawn powerfully to churches and cathedrals . I love the smell of a crypt . You are so beautiful. So very spiritual and aware . I have actually got tears in my eyes . I bloody love you ♡ xxx
I live in the Land of The Prince Bishop's towards the hills. I'm lucky to have worked on such buildings as a steeplejack/builder, I will say these people had something we don't have now, I still stand in awe of their workmanship.
Absolutely fantastic video! Your work will be here long after you're in Heaven Neil. Congratulations for highlighting this knowledge for everyone! You will and may you be, highly Blessed! Thank you!
Not only that they achieved these colossal works but that they are still standing in all their magnificence today. Furthermore, how much longer they will remain. Modern civil engineering might yet not surpass them.
Cathedrals have always struck me with awe. Their very existence, in stone, human endeavour, speak of small, transient humans humbly living through their turbulent times with an aspiration to endow their brief, turbulent lives with a transcendent meaning. They seal the past and the future in stubborn stone. I liked the analogy of a battery - that still works, supplies and speaks of meaning in ordinary lives. Only aspire and meaning can be found. The refutation of nihilism, defiantly challenging endless generations to grasp the significance of their achievement.
Great stuff. I remember when one could visit the great cathedrals gratis. The most extraordinary houses of God. How things have changed for the worse in Britain and the World. God bless. Love your work and good character!
We are very similar. I stopped going to my local CofE church in my early teens, but I still have some feeling inside me that emerges when I enter those magnificent buildings.
Many years ago I was at Durham university for an OU summer school . While there I visited the cathedral. It was awesome. I’m not a god botherer either but the place is just amazing . It is vast . Yet there are corners of it that are sort of intimate if that’s not too fanciful
@@DJWESG1 lol no. That's entitled middle class people meddling with the working classes in the hope of re-engineering them and branding the process "helping".
In my student days in York in the 60s, despite being an atheist, I regularly popped into the Minster to absorb some of its remarkable ambience. One weekend, a group of us travelled to see Durham Cathedral in an old banger and remembering the experience of going into the roof structure still gives me a tingle - absolutely massive oak beams assembled by geniuses. Roughly a thousand years after their conception, these buildings are still incredible. With York Minster, I have always tried to put myself into the mind of a mediaeval man on a pilgrimage. I imagine an illiterate, poor man approaching one of, then, the biggest structures on the planet - in the case of York Minster, whitewashed to be made visible twenty or more miles away across the Yorkshire Plane. He left a primitive, tiny, single story hovel to arrive at a building that he would be completely unable to imagine - a building that would make his local church seem miniscule in comparison. It's little wonder that, in my view, religion held sway with the mass of the population. Thanks to the genius of the architect and stone mason, visitors would imagine they were already at the entrance to Heaven.
I loved this, like you Neil I have always loved churches and cathedrals, as a child played in the cemeteries and was always fascinated by the old gravestones, I have never been one for going to church, but I think the spiritual comes from within. thanks again 😊
When i was a youngster you were allowed to climb to the top of the main tower of the Cathedral. Half way, there was a board walk that H&S wouldn't allow us commoners to use these days .. It was a cracking view of the "City" town
Went to see the festival of lights in Durham November 2019, there was a strange almost apocalyptic feel to the event, heavy rain, a weird almost haunting live electric guitar solo singing/howling accompaniment within the Cathedral, and overhead what appeared to be 100's of white T-shirts lit from within as if spirits floating up in to the roof... a couple of months later 2020 and the world as we knew it was changed.
I've always been in awe of the architecture of older buildings. The skills they had and what they achieved without all the technologies we have. Modern day buildings in comparison are so soulless.
I have the lovely Christchurch priory. With the epic tale of it construction. they tried to build it on the hill the stones were moved. Several times the stone were returned only to be moved. Then you had the miraculous beam. A timber was too short. As the tale goes Jesus came to Christchurch and made the beam grow. If I remember correctly both Christchurch and Durham were connected somehow.
I feel at its purest form archaeology is true history. But what do I know, I'm just a 62-year-old stoner watching RUclips who loves your content, cheers from America. :) I believe that what you feel in some churches is the Holly Spirit, I feel it also from time to time.
I’m fortunate to live a couple of hundred yards from Norwich Cathedral, on Bishopgate. Bishops Bridge was already 400 years old when Ketts army gathered on Mousehold Heath. The history is very close. Boudicca . Wycliffe through the Lollards. Thomas Payne. Cromwell. Do they keep East Anglia with very bad travel links so another one doesn’t get out and cause ‘trouble’ ?
Hi from Sprowston! 😁 What I find very special about Norfolk is that you don't travel through it to get somewhere else, you're either coming to Norfolk or you aren't.
Hello Neil, thank you for your interesting historic out takes. I would join patreon but have to get a new phone to do so. Thank you for all your time and energy x
It's about time we learned from the past and stopped fighting with each other and worked together for a better future unfortunately it doesn't look like it will be happening any time soon 😞
And Neil --have you visited the CATHOLIC/the ROUND--One/Cathedral in Liverpool? I have and many times when I lived in Liverpool; it has a very lovely,""Round"" atmosphere; feeling about it; I went there to pray many many times and I must say; my prayers Have been listened to and I was hugely protected, consoled, strengthened up there...Thank you once again.😄😇😊
People should consider not throwing away old electronics as some contain precious metals (sometimes gold and often silver). These electronics were not cheap when they bought as far backs as the sixties and seventies) and part of the reason for this was the mining costs. Mining uses a usually used a lot of fossil fuels. The electronics that you may throw has requires no mining input to the recycler and so does not reflect the new greener energy costs of mining that may eventually work there way through to silver and gold prices. I suggest that individuals should hold onto their scrap metal for a year or two more just in case we enter a hyper inflationary cycle like the Weimar Republic or France in the late 18th century. In that kind of situation the precious metal in your household electronics may just save them for a critical few months. Even though the amount of scrap metal in a household is small (perhaps a gram or even less of gold and maybe a few grams of silver. The value of these precious metals may become so high in a hyper inflationary environment that a little of it will help their families get through for little while). The thing is that for those sceptical that hyperinflation could ever occur in the UK-and also for those sceptical that silver or gold could help in hyperinflation- these is cost and no effort in doing this. I suspect that there are people who understand the value of old electronics as billion dollar recycling plants have been built.
I understand your feelings for your country. I think i have the same feelings for my country (I'm Swedish with roots in the south of Sweden and Denmark) when I roam our countryside and see the traces from the people who came before us. Still functioning stone walls built from stones dug from the stony meager soils often created by hard labour clearing wood, ruins of old cottages, stone heaps and heather meadows. Those people and their hard work and dreams paved the way for those coming after them(read us) and for that we should be forever grateful. By not understanding their and our common history we're disrespecting not only them but also ourselves.
Love to you Neil & all; you love your Historical stories and figuring's. Like Churches as did Mick Ashton; you both inspire respect to notice the awesome architecture, gravestones & spiritual essence but I always think of millions forced payment where starvation was a daily reality; hit with their Fire and Brimstone preaching learned by researching early archeologists reports recorded the de-humanization of quality humans, unlike their truth. The First Nations and all Indigenous in Canada understand this too well. Their spirits, hearts, minds and souls STOLEN & No $$$ to repair the harms of 155 yrs of Hell on their lives; while teaching Whites & Immigrants here to follow suit - ignore & blame, discriminate and abuse these wonderfully wholesome souls. I spent 11 yrs with helping, listening and witnessing stunning ceremony & respect for all five nations I was privileged to learn from. This culture & their values attracts me more than my British parents inhumanity from generational traumas, though always curious to hear from the sweet UK citizens who know better. MY Sanctuary and Cathedral is in Wild Nature, the Great Mother provides all life!
Well said the indigenous people believed in a higher power and prayed therefore they find this connection in Islam.The Holy Quran is the final revelation sent as a mercy from the Almighty to all creation. As you, myself included there are beautiful passages describing gardens, rivers, scientific miracles that have only recently being discovered.
I believe churches are more than just places of worship. I believe they are full of geometry that had something to do with harmonics which maybe generated some sort of energy. So grateful for you Chanel Neil Oliver.
Brilliant, yet again, Sir. keep it comin, so we can keep it going. Myself, I say again with respects, not of the old sod, but, that which is just as old, but, not as legendary, as its here in the states that I relate this, all our history begins over there, across the big blue drink and even that which is not glorious, infact possibly even down right dubious, is grand and that alas there's a voice amongst us, talking to us, teaching us fact for fact as best ye can, makes you an international treasurer, dont get a big head about it, though you deserve it, I heard the BBc can do that to a head, (bad joke), as you see before ye and we as well here stateside, this farce of indignity deprived of honor and cherishing only the hopped up pseudo marxist lack of perspective in rewriting our history which is even based in rewritten history itself as was the strategy back in the day utilized by the anglo puritan/ yankee against us Cavalier in the South and all our Red Bruthas here eventually, a form of psy ops I call it, conquering physically and mentally, enter complacency the perfect foil for misdeeds well done. This just to elaborate on that which I think of when I think of you. BUt hear this, just yesterday and randomly so, I quoted you and shared a bit of your lessons to me via the BBC docs you've done and the person benefitting from that lesson, very appreciative for it and that Sir is about the best man bit of gratitude a fella can hope for. . You are most welcome. Slainte wa Kind Sir
Dear Neil, it is truly remarkable, every historic cathedral have a mysterious history. If you are religious or not, cathedral 's been everywhere safe with prayers ,and holy ordained to be blessed, so have every cathedrals in Europeans country 's also a story, in mysterious history. As the cathedral of Rome the (Vatican), in France ,who's was the cathedral " notre damme" was totally fired in 2019, that was so sad. And in Brussels (Laken) in Belgium. A cathedral st.Goedele that is close by the Palace. In which country you go, everywhere in every mysterious remarkable historic cathedral, you find a restful peace and a beautiful place of interest.
I like Neil Oliver's openness to the divine. For myself, I also found myself in a family that never mentioned god but from as early as I can remember, prayed and tried to communicate with this Being. Now at 63 much has changed and I have soaked up lots of books on metaphysics and like Neil feel drawn to religious buildings, even attending services, yet find myself pretty much consistently, at odds with the whole relationship between institutional religion and ordinary people. With one exception. The Gnostic writings from 2000 years ago and rediscovered in the late 40's. As mind expanding as quantum theories but most importantly, careful reading of books like The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene or the Gospel of Judas really are eye-openers. Judas, by way, did not "betray" Jesus as penned in the heavily redacted accepted canon.
Hi Neil, i'm sure i speak for others and myself , thank you for speaking the truth .
Love Neil Oliver. The world is a better place with you in it
Neil brilliant channel and very educational, our actual history not a rewritten by those that never built these lands
Thank you Niel for your amazing history videos. 👍🇨🇦
With his critical thinking and oratorial skill I do wish that Neil would stand as a (independent?) Parliamentary candidate at the next Elections. Become a glittering tessara in the mosaic or jigsaw of history. Outshine the dross of Klaus Schwab's Young Global Leaders!!
@@frankraw9991 independent’s won’t do much good at this point.....political parties are drenched In DAVOS.
@@frankraw9991 In the current criminal world, being an independent MP means nothing. Westminster knows how to control & limit awkward individuals.
The main media too. If they decide they don’t like you, you’ll get zero friendly interfere.
@@GT380man Not if there is another 325 independent MPs.
Thank you, Neil for your uplifting commentary! God bless you.
You have a gift Mr Oliver of bringing things to life. Wonderful recount.
Fantastic reflections on the best of human spirit.
First class video, presentation and 'story' telling and fabulous historical video.......thank you Neil & friends!
Thanks for all your hard work Neil. Your productions help us escape all the negativity of the world today 🙏
Really enjoyed this episode Neil, thank you.
Thank you for helping me dream again today. You bring joy and wonder to our world.
Thank you Neil. I know you as an Archaeologist but think of you as an Historian! Or as a "distiller of wisdom" from our past . . . these windows into the past show us a wiser way forward.
Love those words "distiller of wisdom"......so appropriate!
Wonderful episode thank you Neil 😍😍😍
Excellent . Thank you Neil.
For me, archaeology is the embodiment of our history and therefore forms an integral part of it. History is inseparable from the present -- if only we learnt from it. It's Neil's perceptive insight into both which brings both together and provides us with greater understanding of where we come from, and who - and what - we are as a species. It's my food-for-thought fix every week. I love them all.
Just loving these videos thank you also for speaking out . Your an amazing wonderful person 😍
Your work is the stuff of genius.
Neil, I'm a dedicated follower, brilliant message especially today about history! I feel like history is what wraps us in security, embracing, and emboldening us to have faith in what's to come. As a day past, can be retold, but the future is a mystery, yet onwards we go!
I love your work Neil, especially the comments you have on our current situation. Now history, that's where we may differ. Some scholars have mused that our history may not be anything like we've been taught. Some even say that many of these buildings where originally a way to gather energy from the ether. (Please pardon my spelling).
Watching from the Philippines. Thank you for all your videos. I've so much respect for you and the stories and opinions you share..❤️
I love Durham cathedral. I sat in there only a few days ago. Such a beautiful building. Magnificent.
Neil Oliver is so ‘on point’ for these testing times. Insights and opinions that cut through the drivel of MSM to reveal or suggest what might really be going on in our trembling world .
We are all so tired
Thank you Neil for the many years of enjoyable programs.
Just gorgeous! I sure wish you'd have been my history instructor. So deeply interesting.
Thank you!
“ Hatches, Matches and dispatches. “ Classic 👏🏽
I'm from Gateshead, which used to be part of County Durham, as did most of the area south of the Tyne, prior to the implementation of Tyne and Wear as a county in its own right.
I have visited Durham, and the Cathedral many times, and never fail to feel amazed, and awed by the skill and talent of the original builders. Such an awesome sight for the eyes.
Durham is my city, I sang in the choir in that amazing building.I live along way from it now and miss it.
I can't help but feel we've lost the collective will to create anything as beautiful today. May we rediscover our power as people to work together to build something wonderful that will outlast us for 1000 years.
Thank you once again Sir 👏🏻
Love your work
History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.
Magnificent structures. Hits some in the core somehow. unexplainable. Thanks for sharing.
I find it hard now to believe that these fabulous old buildings where built so long ago and all we had to build them with horses and tools
Absolutely. Another scam played out on us. His-story is not our story. Check out “Autodidactic” channel on RUclips. Also on telegram.
Well we saw some amazing cathedrals in Spain. You won’t ever make me believe they weren’t made from men of another time who had patience and driven by a desire to have a place to Worship God.
In the Bible God gave specific instructions for the building of His Temple.
As Neil says there’s an awe in being there and mostly His presence.
@soularized wait, you haven't been actually EATING it, have you?
@soularized There are so many out there now going down this path. Thanks for the tip. I’ll certainly check it out 🙏
Never been to church per se but Im also very drawn to Churches, Cathedrals and Abbeys. Even recently I've been inside 4 different Suffolk churches. I do like going to churches when they're used for talks or classical evenings.
I play my deep windchimes on Sunday mornings.Its like the church bells we all love neighbours love them to,even the birds stop chirping.Its magic 😘
Churches were built as a place to block out the world and focus on deeper values that transcend this world. There is a hole in our hearts that can only be filled with the God of creation.
@@joelbuzbee1750 Good for you. I'm pagan
You articulate beautifully your love of our history and that love is shared by many of us, thank you for being you, God bless
Just epic. 👏👏
Love Neil Oliver’s work👍🏻..and aren’t we lucky we have all this information in an “easy on the eye” package!
Surely history and archaeology are very closely related so you are bound to love history
Every time I look at a new episode, I feel nourished.
Thank you, Neil, ❤ your work
You make so much sense that’s why a lot of people are intimidated by you , keep it up.
This was majestic !Thank you so very much ✌️🌹
I’m a 73 year old native Californian. I’ve loved history since I was 13. I have long been alarmed at the lack of history taught in our schools. Then I watch sadly as we repeat the terrible things in history.
history does repeat itself, there are only so many possibilities of things we can do .
and destruction limits it's self.
So true Neil. Cathedrals and churches , big or small , have a magnetic power about them, no matter your religion, An awe and admiration for our ancestors. Gloucester cathedral was magnificent. Walking in the footsteps of Edward II . 🤩
I think so too. GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. Magnifico . Also the ones in the Cotswolds. Very special.
It is all history isn't it ,I love it,we need to know all about the past.😍
Such a wonderful accounting of the lands. I so wish that you were to offer tours to those wanting to discover the beauty of the land. I so hope and pray that one day my wife and I can come to visit this gorgeous area.
Same, Scotland in my blood. It's gotta feel good.
I absolutely love listening to Neil and can’t wait for the next episode
History is just one thing after another.
My Nan used to say " The past shapes the future" so i have always taken our history seriously.
Thank you Neil. Loving your videos as a new subscriber. You say so much more than you say.
Thanks for the video Neil
Beautiful buildings many churches ! I don't go to church either ! I once took some photographs of the St James church in West Littleton , they were doing repairs on the spire if I remember correctly , and the photos were sold in aid of the repairs , There was only about 15 or so photos and they were sold for about 50 pence or a pound , so it was only a small help , but I was very proud of them ! But inside the church , well , it just had this beautiful ambience and peace about it ! Just a lovely place to be , if you are ever near the area it's well worth a visit !
I met the very lovely Betty Dickinson who was the Church warden at that time ! I send my best wishes to Betty and hope that she is well !
Neil , I am exactly the same . I'm always drawn powerfully to churches and cathedrals . I love the smell of a crypt . You are so beautiful. So very spiritual and aware . I have actually got tears in my eyes . I bloody love you ♡ xxx
I live in the Land of The Prince Bishop's towards the hills. I'm lucky to have worked on such buildings as a steeplejack/builder, I will say these people had something we don't have now, I still stand in awe of their workmanship.
Like it. It means peace is finally here
Absolutely fantastic video!
Your work will be here long after you're in Heaven Neil.
Congratulations for highlighting this knowledge for everyone!
You will and may you be, highly Blessed!
Thank you!
Not only that they achieved these colossal works but that they are still standing in all their magnificence today. Furthermore, how much longer they will remain. Modern civil engineering might yet not surpass them.
Another glorious offering. Thank you Neil.
I think that these buildings hold greater secrets that we don't know yet but listening to your voice is always so calming. 👏🏻❤️
Going to Canterbury is a dream I have. Richard Burton’s portrayal of Thomas Beckett solidified this desire.
Cathedrals have always struck me with awe. Their very existence, in stone, human endeavour, speak of small, transient humans humbly living through their turbulent times with an aspiration to endow their brief, turbulent lives with a transcendent meaning. They seal the past and the future in stubborn stone. I liked the analogy of a battery - that still works, supplies and speaks of meaning in ordinary lives. Only aspire and meaning can be found. The refutation of nihilism, defiantly challenging endless generations to grasp the significance of their achievement.
Great stuff. I remember when one could visit the great cathedrals gratis. The most extraordinary houses of God. How things have changed for the worse in Britain and the World. God bless. Love your work and good character!
We are very similar. I stopped going to my local CofE church in my early teens, but I still have some feeling inside me that emerges when I enter those magnificent buildings.
Beautiful Neil😀
They built. We’re tearing down
Yes, I have now caught with all 32 episodes, now looking forward to my weely escape to the past
Many years ago I was at Durham university for an OU summer school . While there I visited the cathedral. It was awesome. I’m not a god botherer either but the place is just amazing . It is vast . Yet there are corners of it that are sort of intimate if that’s not too fanciful
I always say that science is how the World works but that history is how people work.
Nah, that's sociology
@@DJWESG1 lol no. That's entitled middle class people meddling with the working classes in the hope of re-engineering them and branding the process "helping".
Stunning scenery x
You have changed me, thank you for the many gifts!
In my student days in York in the 60s, despite being an atheist, I regularly popped into the Minster to absorb some of its remarkable ambience.
One weekend, a group of us travelled to see Durham Cathedral in an old banger and remembering the experience of going into the roof structure still gives me a tingle - absolutely massive oak beams assembled by geniuses.
Roughly a thousand years after their conception, these buildings are still incredible. With York Minster, I have always tried to put myself into the mind of a mediaeval man on a pilgrimage. I imagine an illiterate, poor man approaching one of, then, the biggest structures on the planet - in the case of York Minster, whitewashed to be made visible twenty or more miles away across the Yorkshire Plane. He left a primitive, tiny, single story hovel to arrive at a building that he would be completely unable to imagine - a building that would make his local church seem miniscule in comparison.
It's little wonder that, in my view, religion held sway with the mass of the population. Thanks to the genius of the architect and stone mason, visitors would imagine they were already at the entrance to Heaven.
Are you aware of the books and TV series by Ken Follett? Anyway, look him up.
I loved this, like you Neil I have always loved churches and cathedrals, as a child played in the cemeteries and was always fascinated by the old gravestones, I have never been one for going to church, but I think the spiritual comes from within. thanks again 😊
Absolute beauty.. What the good of man can create ... Spiritual.
When i was a youngster you were allowed to climb to the top of the main tower of the Cathedral. Half way, there was a board walk that H&S wouldn't allow us commoners to use these days .. It was a cracking view of the "City" town
Went to see the festival of lights in Durham November 2019, there was a strange almost apocalyptic feel to the event, heavy rain, a weird almost haunting live electric guitar solo singing/howling accompaniment within the Cathedral, and overhead what appeared to be 100's of white T-shirts lit from within as if spirits floating up in to the roof... a couple of months later 2020 and the world as we knew it was changed.
A great true Man
I've always been in awe of the architecture of older buildings. The skills they had and what they achieved without all the technologies we have. Modern day buildings in comparison are so soulless.
I have the lovely Christchurch priory. With the epic tale of it construction. they tried to build it on the hill the stones were moved. Several times the stone were returned only to be moved. Then you had the miraculous beam. A timber was too short. As the tale goes Jesus came to Christchurch and made the beam grow. If I remember correctly both Christchurch and Durham were connected somehow.
Thankyou😊
I feel at its purest form archaeology is true history. But what do I know, I'm just a 62-year-old stoner watching RUclips who loves your content, cheers from America. :) I believe that what you feel in some churches is the Holly Spirit, I feel it also from time to time.
I’m fortunate to live a couple of hundred yards from Norwich Cathedral, on Bishopgate. Bishops Bridge was already 400 years old when Ketts army gathered on Mousehold Heath.
The history is very close. Boudicca . Wycliffe through the Lollards.
Thomas Payne. Cromwell. Do they keep East Anglia with very bad travel links so another one doesn’t get out and cause ‘trouble’ ?
Hi from Sprowston! 😁
What I find very special about Norfolk is that you don't travel through it to get somewhere else, you're either coming to Norfolk or you aren't.
Hello Neil, thank you for your interesting historic out takes. I would join patreon but have to get a new phone to do so. Thank you for all your time and energy x
Im the same, I dont consider myself religious, but I do enjoy being in Churches. They have a power to them!
Brilliant video
We were here!
It's about time we learned from the past and stopped fighting with each other and worked together for a better future unfortunately it doesn't look like it will be happening any time soon 😞
And Neil --have you visited the CATHOLIC/the ROUND--One/Cathedral in Liverpool? I have and many times when I lived in Liverpool; it has a very lovely,""Round"" atmosphere; feeling about it; I went there to pray many many times and I must say; my prayers Have been listened to and I was hugely protected, consoled, strengthened up there...Thank you once again.😄😇😊
People should consider not throwing away old electronics as some contain precious metals (sometimes gold and often silver). These electronics were not cheap when they bought as far backs as the sixties and seventies) and part of the reason for this was the mining costs. Mining uses a usually used a lot of fossil fuels. The electronics that you may throw has requires no mining input to the recycler and so does not reflect the new greener energy costs of mining that may eventually work there way through to silver and gold prices. I suggest that individuals should hold onto their scrap metal for a year or two more just in case we enter a hyper inflationary cycle like the Weimar Republic or France in the late 18th century. In that kind of situation the precious metal in your household electronics may just save them for a critical few months. Even though the amount of scrap metal in a household is small (perhaps a gram or even less of gold and maybe a few grams of silver. The value of these precious metals may become so high in a hyper inflationary environment that a little of it will help their families get through for little while). The thing is that for those sceptical that hyperinflation could ever occur in the UK-and also for those sceptical that silver or gold could help in hyperinflation- these is cost and no effort in doing this. I suspect that there are people who understand the value of old electronics as billion dollar recycling plants have been built.
It’s not what’s in the church buildings it’s what’s in your heart that’s important.
I understand your feelings for your country. I think i have the same feelings for my country (I'm Swedish with roots in the south of Sweden and Denmark) when I roam our countryside and see the traces from the people who came before us. Still functioning stone walls built from stones dug from the stony meager soils often created by hard labour clearing wood, ruins of old cottages, stone heaps and heather meadows.
Those people and their hard work and dreams paved the way for those coming after them(read us) and for that we should be forever grateful.
By not understanding their and our common history we're disrespecting not only them but also ourselves.
Love to you Neil & all; you love your Historical stories and figuring's. Like Churches as did Mick Ashton; you both inspire respect to notice the awesome architecture, gravestones & spiritual essence but I always think of millions forced payment where starvation was a daily reality; hit with their Fire and Brimstone preaching learned by researching early archeologists reports recorded the de-humanization of quality humans, unlike their truth. The First Nations and all Indigenous in Canada understand this too well. Their spirits, hearts, minds and souls STOLEN & No $$$ to repair the harms of 155 yrs of Hell on their lives; while teaching Whites & Immigrants here to follow suit - ignore & blame, discriminate and abuse these wonderfully wholesome souls. I spent 11 yrs with helping, listening and witnessing stunning ceremony & respect for all five nations I was privileged to learn from. This culture & their values attracts me more than my British parents inhumanity from generational traumas, though always curious to hear from the sweet UK citizens who know better.
MY Sanctuary and Cathedral is in Wild Nature, the Great Mother provides all life!
Well said the indigenous people believed in a higher power and prayed therefore they find this connection in Islam.The Holy Quran is the final revelation sent as a mercy from the Almighty to all creation. As you, myself included there are beautiful passages describing gardens, rivers, scientific miracles that have only recently being discovered.
I believe churches are more than just places of worship. I believe they are full of geometry that had something to do with harmonics which maybe generated some sort of energy. So grateful for you Chanel Neil Oliver.
Brilliant, yet again, Sir. keep it comin, so we can keep it going. Myself, I say again with respects, not of the old sod, but, that which is just as old, but, not as legendary, as its here in the states that I relate this, all our history begins over there, across the big blue drink and even that which is not glorious, infact possibly even down right dubious, is grand and that alas there's a voice amongst us, talking to us, teaching us fact for fact as best ye can, makes you an international treasurer, dont get a big head about it, though you deserve it, I heard the BBc can do that to a head, (bad joke), as you see before ye and we as well here stateside, this farce of indignity deprived of honor and cherishing only the hopped up pseudo marxist lack of perspective in rewriting our history which is even based in rewritten history itself as was the strategy back in the day utilized by the anglo puritan/ yankee against us Cavalier in the South and all our Red Bruthas here eventually, a form of psy ops I call it, conquering physically and mentally, enter complacency the perfect foil for misdeeds well done. This just to elaborate on that which I think of when I think of you. BUt hear this, just yesterday and randomly so, I quoted you and shared a bit of your lessons to me via the BBC docs you've done and the person benefitting from that lesson, very appreciative for it and that Sir is about the best man bit of gratitude a fella can hope for. . You are most welcome. Slainte wa Kind Sir
It is a marvellous building which I have frequented a few times
Hello from Cornton 🍻
Should of been an architect as had grade 1 CSE in Technical Drawing. and love looking at architecture too..cheers
Sydney Harbour during mention of 2000 ad . Love it .
Dear Neil, it is truly remarkable, every historic cathedral have a mysterious history. If you are religious or not, cathedral 's been everywhere safe with prayers ,and holy ordained to be blessed, so have every cathedrals in Europeans country 's also a story, in mysterious history. As the cathedral of Rome the (Vatican), in France ,who's was the cathedral " notre damme" was totally fired in 2019, that was so sad. And in Brussels (Laken) in Belgium. A cathedral st.Goedele that is close by the Palace. In which country you go, everywhere in every mysterious remarkable historic cathedral, you find a restful peace and a beautiful place of interest.
I like Neil Oliver's openness to the divine. For myself, I also found myself in a family that never mentioned god but from as early as I can remember, prayed and tried to communicate with this Being. Now at 63 much has changed and I have soaked up lots of books on metaphysics and like Neil feel drawn to religious buildings, even attending services, yet find myself pretty much consistently, at odds with the whole relationship between institutional religion and ordinary people. With one exception. The Gnostic writings from 2000 years ago and rediscovered in the late 40's. As mind expanding as quantum theories but most importantly, careful reading of books like The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene or the Gospel of Judas really are eye-openers. Judas, by way, did not "betray" Jesus as penned in the heavily redacted accepted canon.
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