Simply wonderful and so important. I am with you 100% Neil. Hello to my fellow watchers. Try to do at least one small kindness each and every day. Much love
The trees get something special, how more you watch the tree ,how more you inspire, if i walk into the wood, i find my inspiration on the pine-tree. But the nature get something magical to offer. That's a beautiful episode you presented Neil, well done. 😊😉💚
I’ve been listening to your love letters for a while now this one was for me, your best. I so wish I could afford to join. Thank you for your work. You are a national treasure.
Oh, Neil. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this segment. On October 11, 2018, I visited the Fortingall Yew. When I started watching your video and heard where you were headed, my heart about jumped out of my chest. That's how I felt when I first saw her. I live in the Northeastern US now, but in my dreams, I live in Scotland. I visited three times in three years. It's raining as I'm typing this, as it was raining when I visited the Yew. I was completely alone with her while my friend sat waiting for me in the car, seemingly unimpressed. I could have sat there for hours. It's one of the most peaceful times I've spent in my life, and I will cherish the memory forever. 🌲💚
We may be out of covid lockdown (maybe) but for many reasons our govt’s keep us in other kinds of lockdowns (I’m a keen listener- viewer of Neil’s GBNews commentaries) so these weekly departures with Neil and Paul are most precious, a return to sanity, each one I think, well, he can’t top this week, and then he does! I bless you and your whole team with all my heart!
Your “love letters” bring out the dreamer in me. Im alone among my friends who don’t think like me. Its good to see comments from people who do think like me. I don’t feel so much alone
Of course you are Not Alone Helen ; Neil O. Is an exceptionally beautiful human being and talented Poet of modern and Ancient "" British Islands"" --- for all of us = Europeans as well of course.....😊😄😥😄M.
I snap when i see old trees cut down....we need trees,the more there are the less c02 and more o2....it would solve a Lot of problems..but humans are bloody stupid,thinking tech and software will solve problems, when theres a Simple fix .
Neil, all these episodes are wonderful - but THIS one is special. I had no idea that this existed and now, of course, I want to go to Scotland and visit it. Probably leave it to next summer, however. 😄
Neil, I anticipate your episodes like having a box of chocolates and getting one every Thursday, truly savor each one. I've watched your earlier films on Neolithic times as well, brilliant
Inspiring and thank you so much Neil for bring perspective of how tiny we are and how transient are the so-called good and the great, on this vast canvass.
Wow that was something!!! Brought up in dunfermline fife and i dont remember being told about this. I am just in awe of this beautiful planet we have the privilege to live on. There is a song called Indescribable by chris tomlin. In the song the use words awestruck indescribable and uncontainable. That struck me as i was listening in a grounding sort of way. Sorry i wish i was as eloquent as you. Thanks for sharing
Good day dear sir And how you tell its story Just fills my heart with feelings ideas as you say all the things that has gone on as this miracle stands and lives through it all ALL I so thank you for bringing this story to us As it does blow my mind To absorb this information is grand
Thank you Neil, you make me feel like l am there. Your story telling ability is amazing , and yes thanks to the people of the past who made it possible for us living here in the now to know about their lives and the land they lived in.
Don't know if you remember Story Tellers Box sets. remembering all the voices on this cassettes 😀 you sir are all of them rolled into one. Don't ever give up on talking cause your shure to always be followed. Stay safe 🏴
Hello Neil. Lovely story as usual your stories are very enjoyable. We to in South Wales have a yew tree which is 5000 year's old. It is in the rear of a church in a small village called defynnog near sennybridge. Easy to find as the church is painted white. I encourage all to pop along to see this tree it is completely awe inspiring.
This is a wonderful tale of something we can still see and still lives to this day. I live in Stirling like yourself Neil, but have yet to visit the Fortingall yew. I'll be putting that right soon enough.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it's a pleasure to sit down and listen to you talk about places and objects, some known others unknown to me, and their histories. I had never heard of this tree before.
Here's looking at Yew Neil! All jokes aside, truly an amazing and special tree. It's hard to imagine it was all ready ancient at the birth of Christianity.
Thank you for so beautifully and poetically rekindling our "roots". My daughter so enjoys this series. She insists that I turn up the volume so she can clearly hear you as she moves around the house!
Love your work. Bless you and yours, and what you do. My last home was on a ley line between 2 ancient oaks - they were trees between 300 and 400 years old. It is incredible to think what has happened even in that period. So learning about this tree - awesome, truly amazing. Thanks for this :)
How wonderful to be between two ancient oaks! Last week, I was in Gettysburg, PA, where I came upon a massive old Oak tree that had to have been there during the battle in 1863. It’s trunk and roots were far and wide, spreading over a large boulder at its base, and I had to place my hands on it and give it my love and reverence. What wisdom they have, what events they have witnessed…what pain have they transmuted with their unconditional love. We are so blessed to be in their presence, I am most humbled by their majesty.🙏🏻❤️
@@courtney1709 so agree trees are lovely and wonderful energy. I always greet the trees in the park where I walk my dog and thank them for the work they do. Unfortunately being on a ley line, everyone in our house became seriously ill. Fortunately learnt about geopathic stress just in time. Installed Geomack energisers and also green8 device to deal with the energy - then found out that oak tress are the only trees that are happy with geopathic stress!!! Put me on a learning journey where I now help people deal with geopathic stress and electromagentic pollution!!! Not the trees fault - just mine for not knowing the signs!!! The trees had names they liked - one was sweet oak and the other wise oak. truly majestic. loved your reply. Have a fab day and blessings to you and yours :)
@@shrimp3572 Thank you, I have just learned from you some things I did not know, and am most grateful! Blessings to you and yours, you clearly have a deep appreciation and understanding of such things, there’s a kinship between folks like us and the ancient tress! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️
@@shrimp3572 I have a ley line on the gable end of my small house. It runs along the same situation as the water... sinks, bathroom etc. It has been a definite learning curve... and doubly so due to ley line energy and water!🥰
@@moiragoldsmith7052 If you are off the ley line for where you sleep, then the energy may be fine for you. Unfortunatley the layout of our last house was that we lived and slept over the ley line. It affected the energy of all of us! Didn't help that as a child I had been sensitised to the energy by living over geopathic stress - so particularly susceptible. Look at the website - centre for Implosion research. Their gadgets clean energy from water. At my last house I would have a bath and feel utterly exhausted afterwards - found out that our water supply ran through a curry node. The water harmoniser sorted that out - and I was able to have a soak in the bath and fell fine. So bizarre!!!! Love and light
Do you know of your fellow countryman Michael Dunnings work with Yew Shamanism? Michael is a great guy who cured his alcoholism by living in a Yew tree for 9 years in the south of Scotland. The Yew secretes a red wax that Michael thinks has healing/hallucinogenic properties.
Thanks once again Neil for an amazing piece of Scottish History. Never been to Scotland before, but the Shetland Isles and Outer Hebrides as always appealed as have the Lochs. Such stunning backdrop scenery, Scotland does appear to be a magical and mysterious land. I'm a tree hugger, or have hugged trees and monolithic stones before, least not for their energetic and time past history. I can see myself hugging that old tree and feeling the energies of the ancients whom stood beside it all those centuries ago...keep up the good work Neil, your podcasts are extremely educational x
Like you, I want the Yew to be 9000 years old, to believe the pungent lines of Morgan’s sonnet, “…..and washed his hands, and washed his hands.” Another fabulous love letter!
I can't really add anything better than what many others have said already. A truly wondrous, enlightening and uplifting video Neil. You are such an inspiring historian (and social commentator). ... and what a beautiful tree. 🌳😺🌳
Years ago I worked as part of a team rewiring the Hotel. I'd sit under the tree and take my lunch break daily. They were most tranquil, peaceful moments. What tales it could tell.
I shall return to watch this later Neil. What an interesting topic! Trees and their long lived life...that old yew tree at the start of the programme looked simular to a knurled old man..looked like a centuries old knee...
Neil Oliver is fast becoming one of the pre-eminent successors to the great Catholic historian Christopher Dawson. His fidelity to the true significance of myth and legend; his passionate advocacy of the uniqueness of Western culture; and the sheer imaginative sweep of his synthetic approach to historical interpretation, is informed with such generosity, humility and infectious enthusiasm.
Jammer dat ik niet alles ervan begrijp van wat U ons vertelt ,kan het wel steeds beter deze Engels verstaan maar het blijft wel moeilijk tot zo ver maar ondanks dat is het toch boeiend onze historie,hopelijk houden nu meer mensen hun historische achtergronden op Peil 😊
Joseffina, you can set up Dutch subtitles! Go into the settings in the upper-right-hand corner. Go to captions, then auto-translate, and choose the language.
Yews are part of our pagan past and are magical trees planted on sacred pagan religious sites. Christians built their churches on these sites. The female Yew grows berries which can be consumed by humans as long as the stone is not swallowed. The tree featured is a direct connection with the pagan world and our ancient ancestors.
I am so glad you have brought this amazing tree to the fore, I tried to get my son to do a piece on this miracle as he recently became a writer in a Scottish newspaper, but fathers and sons. 🤷🏻♂️
I've always found ancient tree fascinating. Take the Welwitschia in the Namib desert where I grew up. Thought to be well over 2000 years old. I've sat in that desert, on top of the sand dunes, overlooking the vast ocean, pondering the old trees and the ancients who survived in that world.
_________" We must use Mass Immigration to turn the Native English People into a Minority in England. This will allow us to undermine the Identity of the English People and import a new Majority that will end the very idea of the English Nation. This is Critical for Globalism to take hold of England. "--------Peter Sutherland "The Father Of Globalism" European Union Com. 2006
Immortality is captivating but alas I'd say a painful experience as all that you love and respect comes to past . Did not many places of Scotland have Ionnian sounding names . I know that the capital of Turkiye is a ancient city of Gaelic Keltoi heritage. The good book mentions Galatians. The footprint and influence of these peoples was everywhere and still remembered . Take care and stay free .
Wow! Nine thousand years! Could this blessed tree be the living embodiment of the pagen mythological tree Yggdrasil? Nine Realms for each of the one thousand years of its life, it feels that we're living in end times, Ragnarok was to Pagans what Armageddon is Christians
Neils passion for history is contagious.
Simply wonderful and so important. I am with you 100% Neil. Hello to my fellow watchers. Try to do at least one small kindness each and every day. Much love
The trees get something special, how more you watch the tree ,how more you inspire, if i walk into the wood, i find my inspiration on the pine-tree. But the nature get something magical to offer. That's a beautiful episode you presented Neil, well done. 😊😉💚
I’ve been listening to your love letters for a while now this one was for me, your best. I so wish I could afford to join. Thank you for your work. You are a national treasure.
Wonderfully evocative narration and dronography - Thank you Neil
Oh, Neil. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this segment. On October 11, 2018, I visited the Fortingall Yew. When I started watching your video and heard where you were headed, my heart about jumped out of my chest. That's how I felt when I first saw her. I live in the Northeastern US now, but in my dreams, I live in Scotland. I visited three times in three years. It's raining as I'm typing this, as it was raining when I visited the Yew. I was completely alone with her while my friend sat waiting for me in the car, seemingly unimpressed. I could have sat there for hours. It's one of the most peaceful times I've spent in my life, and I will cherish the memory forever. 🌲💚
Beautiful words. ❤️
@@monicalillis3294 Thank you, Monica. I can still feel it in my 💚!
Wow, nice story. Would love to spend an afternoon in the shade of such an old friend.
@@chonconnor6144 Maybe you will, one day!
Thank you Neil for yet another wonderful episode.
Your passionate narrations are poetry to my ears.
We may be out of covid lockdown (maybe) but for many reasons our govt’s keep us in other kinds of lockdowns (I’m a keen listener- viewer of Neil’s GBNews commentaries) so these weekly departures with Neil and Paul are most precious, a return to sanity, each one I think, well, he can’t top this week, and then he does! I bless you and your whole team with all my heart!
Thank you Beth you said it wonderfully ÷ I fully agree !😊😇
Mind-boggling. Just get goosebumps from this. I will go visit this tree.
Great stuff Neil, a true story teller in the tradition of our ancestors, this is history as our forefathers would have heard it.
Your “love letters” bring out the dreamer in me. Im alone among my friends who don’t think like me. Its good to see comments from people who do think like me. I don’t feel so much alone
Of course you are Not Alone Helen ; Neil O. Is an exceptionally beautiful human being and talented Poet of modern and Ancient "" British Islands"" --- for all of us = Europeans as well of course.....😊😄😥😄M.
Delighted that you included this one! Been there myself, lovely place...
Wherever I go, I notice and give reverence to the elder trees…I feel blessed just to be in their presence. 🌳❤️
I snap when i see old trees cut down....we need trees,the more there are the less c02 and more o2....it would solve a Lot of problems..but humans are bloody stupid,thinking tech and software will solve problems, when theres a Simple fix .
This is such a wonderful series. Makes me want to travel to them all.
Me too…
Neil, all these episodes are wonderful - but THIS one is special. I had no idea that this existed and now, of course, I want to go to Scotland and visit it. Probably leave it to next summer, however. 😄
Thank you so much. I was twice in that Glenn with my son and his scouts brigade. Wonderful memory i have of this moment
Neil, I anticipate your episodes like having a box of chocolates and getting one every Thursday, truly savor each one.
I've watched your earlier films on Neolithic times as well, brilliant
Inspiring and thank you so much Neil for bring perspective of how tiny we are and how transient are the so-called good and the great, on this vast canvass.
Fascinating! Just another reason to visit my family in Scotland ! Thank Yew 😊
Wow that was something!!! Brought up in dunfermline fife and i dont remember being told about this. I am just in awe of this beautiful planet we have the privilege to live on. There is a song called Indescribable by chris tomlin. In the song the use words awestruck indescribable and uncontainable. That struck me as i was listening in a grounding sort of way. Sorry i wish i was as eloquent as you. Thanks for sharing
Good day dear sir
And how you tell its story
Just fills my heart with feelings ideas as you say all the things that has gone on as this miracle stands and lives through it all
ALL
I so thank you for bringing this story to us
As it does blow my mind
To absorb this information is grand
Truly one of the most extraordinary lessons of history!
This was just beautiful. Thank you Neil
so fascinating and your voice is not annoying.
Thank you for this,just what I needed to see and hear today. Wow what a magnificent tree🧡
What an amazing place to spend your life. Thank you so much for sharing..
🙏🏻❤🙏🏻
Stories/facts like these, make my heart smile 💖💖 Thank you again, love all your podcasts by the way. Greetings from belgium.
Thank you Neil, you make me feel like l am there. Your story telling ability is amazing , and yes thanks to the people of the past who made it possible for us living here in the now to know about their lives and the land they lived in.
Don't know if you remember Story Tellers Box sets. remembering all the voices on this cassettes 😀 you sir are all of them rolled into one. Don't ever give up on talking cause your shure to always be followed. Stay safe 🏴
Hello Neil. Lovely story as usual your stories are very enjoyable. We to in South Wales have a yew tree which is 5000 year's old. It is in the rear of a church in a small village called defynnog near sennybridge. Easy to find as the church is painted white. I encourage all to pop along to see this tree it is completely awe inspiring.
This is a wonderful tale of something we can still see and still lives to this day. I live in Stirling like yourself Neil, but have yet to visit the Fortingall yew. I'll be putting that right soon enough.
I am loving your love letters.
I only wish I had seen this series *before* visiting Britain!
Great episode. I think this was my favourite; thus far.
Thank you. Mine too.
Must go back to visit the Fortingall Yew again. Been a long time. Your voice is so distinctive, Neil. Hope you enjoyed your afternoon today!
What a story it could tell
the raven in the old yew tree, the white dove in the willow beckons the weary pilgrim to rest on Jacobs Pillow .
9000 years ago is a long time for sure --- its near impossible to imagine such a time line :)
Such an interesting episode ,thank you Neil 😍😍
Thank you Neil I didn’t learn any of this a school I love History now 👍
That was a most beautiful love letter! Thank you Neil
A marvellous story for the most venerable tree. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Neil Oliver!
Thought provoking, poetic, fantastic☝️🧐
Best regards Smith
This is just the most wonderful series Mr. Oliver.
fascinating Neil...absolutely fascinating.
Another fascinating piece. You remind me so much of myself
I certainly look forward to these. Thank you very much for these. I genuinely appreciate it.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it's a pleasure to sit down and listen to you talk about places and objects, some known others unknown to me, and their histories. I had never heard of this tree before.
Here's looking at Yew Neil! All jokes aside, truly an amazing and special tree. It's hard to imagine it was all ready ancient at the birth of Christianity.
Thank you soo much for the great energy behind your videos.i have learned a lot of interesting possibilities.
I just love this guy !!
Me too
I love Neil's stories and how he loves history and us...humans.
Majestic old tree... amazing
not a 'thing' as much as a living Being worthy of great Respect. 💖
Thank you for so beautifully and poetically rekindling our "roots".
My daughter so enjoys this series. She insists that I turn up the volume so she can clearly hear you as she moves around the house!
Sweet 💛
Love your opening line 👍
Incredible... I hope I can visit this wonderful tree and the glen 😊💚🌳🌻🦋🦉🙏
lovely commentary, Neil. You and Will Jordan are poets.
Will go up and see this tree. Thank you 🙂👍
You are a good guy Neil. Keep it up.
Love your work. Bless you and yours, and what you do. My last home was on a ley line between 2 ancient oaks - they were trees between 300 and 400 years old. It is incredible to think what has happened even in that period. So learning about this tree - awesome, truly amazing. Thanks for this :)
How wonderful to be between two ancient oaks! Last week, I was in Gettysburg, PA, where I came upon a massive old Oak tree that had to have been there during the battle in 1863. It’s trunk and roots were far and wide, spreading over a large boulder at its base, and I had to place my hands on it and give it my love and reverence. What wisdom they have, what events they have witnessed…what pain have they transmuted with their unconditional love. We are so blessed to be in their presence, I am most humbled by their majesty.🙏🏻❤️
@@courtney1709 so agree trees are lovely and wonderful energy. I always greet the trees in the park where I walk my dog and thank them for the work they do. Unfortunately being on a ley line, everyone in our house became seriously ill. Fortunately learnt about geopathic stress just in time. Installed Geomack energisers and also green8 device to deal with the energy - then found out that oak tress are the only trees that are happy with geopathic stress!!! Put me on a learning journey where I now help people deal with geopathic stress and electromagentic pollution!!! Not the trees fault - just mine for not knowing the signs!!! The trees had names they liked - one was sweet oak and the other wise oak. truly majestic. loved your reply. Have a fab day and blessings to you and yours :)
@@shrimp3572 Thank you, I have just learned from you some things I did not know, and am most grateful! Blessings to you and yours, you clearly have a deep appreciation and understanding of such things, there’s a kinship between folks like us and the ancient tress! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️
@@shrimp3572 I have a ley line on the gable end of my small house. It runs along the same situation as the water... sinks, bathroom etc. It has been a definite learning curve... and doubly so due to ley line energy and water!🥰
@@moiragoldsmith7052 If you are off the ley line for where you sleep, then the energy may be fine for you. Unfortunatley the layout of our last house was that we lived and slept over the ley line. It affected the energy of all of us! Didn't help that as a child I had been sensitised to the energy by living over geopathic stress - so particularly susceptible. Look at the website - centre for Implosion research. Their gadgets clean energy from water. At my last house I would have a bath and feel utterly exhausted afterwards - found out that our water supply ran through a curry node. The water harmoniser sorted that out - and I was able to have a soak in the bath and fell fine. So bizarre!!!! Love and light
Do you know of your fellow countryman Michael Dunnings work with Yew Shamanism? Michael is a great guy who cured his alcoholism by living in a Yew tree for 9 years in the south of Scotland. The Yew secretes a red wax that Michael thinks has healing/hallucinogenic properties.
Fantastic Neil thanks 🙏
This is beautiful.
Thanks once again Neil for an amazing piece of Scottish History. Never been to Scotland before, but the Shetland Isles and Outer Hebrides as always appealed as have the Lochs. Such stunning backdrop scenery, Scotland does appear to be a magical and mysterious land. I'm a tree hugger, or have hugged trees and monolithic stones before, least not for their energetic and time past history. I can see myself hugging that old tree and feeling the energies of the ancients whom stood beside it all those centuries ago...keep up the good work Neil, your podcasts are extremely educational x
Beautiful video, fascinating subject and having been to Scotland twice I drifted so easily right back there!
I am a big fan of this series.
Among other such trees is the Araucaria tree in the Araucaria forests of Chile.
Perhaps the Fortingale Yew for you is the fixed point of your compass from which you wandered around your Love letter to our blessed aisles.
Really enjoyed 💚
i love your channel thank you for being you
Like you, I want the Yew to be 9000 years old, to believe the pungent lines of Morgan’s sonnet, “…..and washed his hands, and washed his hands.” Another fabulous love letter!
Thank you Neil for this new episode! just love listening to your voice and learning so much your islands :-)
Major Oak in Nottingham Forest is also very old Robin Hood it supposed to have met and talked to his men under it's branches.
❤️ Love! Thank you so much !
I can't really add anything better than what many others have said already.
A truly wondrous, enlightening and uplifting video Neil.
You are such an inspiring historian (and social commentator).
... and what a beautiful tree. 🌳😺🌳
Another magical episode
Unbelievable story…, here I’ve been braggin’ about our Sequoias and Bristlecones.
Question everything.! Thanks 👍
Years ago I worked as part of a team rewiring the Hotel. I'd sit under the tree and take my lunch break daily. They were most tranquil, peaceful moments. What tales it could tell.
I shall return to watch this later Neil. What an interesting topic! Trees and their long lived life...that old yew tree at the start of the programme looked simular to a knurled old man..looked like a centuries old knee...
Neil Oliver is fast becoming one of the pre-eminent successors to the great Catholic historian Christopher Dawson. His fidelity to the true significance of myth and legend; his passionate advocacy of the uniqueness of Western culture; and the sheer imaginative sweep of his synthetic approach to historical interpretation, is informed with such generosity, humility and infectious enthusiasm.
Jammer dat ik niet alles ervan begrijp van wat U ons vertelt ,kan het wel steeds beter deze Engels verstaan maar het blijft wel moeilijk tot zo ver maar ondanks dat is het toch boeiend onze historie,hopelijk houden nu meer mensen hun historische achtergronden op Peil 😊
Joseffina, you can set up Dutch subtitles! Go into the settings in the upper-right-hand corner. Go to captions, then auto-translate, and choose the language.
Keep on learning. Good luck👍
👍...as always Neil 😊
Brilliant 🏴🇬🇧🎨
Yews are part of our pagan past and are magical trees planted on sacred pagan religious sites. Christians built their churches on these sites. The female Yew grows berries which can be consumed by humans as long as the stone is not swallowed. The tree featured is a direct connection with the pagan world and our ancient ancestors.
In Ireland - found near ancient boundaries - yew, hawthorn, ash always on boundaries - ley lines and you right - near the pagan sites.
Great info & Lovely accent, can listen to you all day
Beautiful, just beautiful.
The tree exists as Dr Who once said of something "As a fixed point in time around which everything else is measured."
I am so glad you have brought this amazing tree to the fore, I tried to get my son to do a piece on this miracle as he recently became a writer in a Scottish newspaper, but fathers and sons. 🤷🏻♂️
Watching from America, always enjoy your videos.
I've always found ancient tree fascinating. Take the Welwitschia in the Namib desert where I grew up. Thought to be well over 2000 years old. I've sat in that desert, on top of the sand dunes, overlooking the vast ocean, pondering the old trees and the ancients who survived in that world.
_________" We must use Mass Immigration to turn the Native English People into a Minority in England. This will allow us to undermine the Identity of the English People and import a new Majority that will end the very idea of the English Nation. This is Critical for Globalism to take hold of England. "--------Peter Sutherland "The Father Of Globalism" European Union Com. 2006
Immortality is captivating but alas I'd say a painful experience as all that you love and respect comes to past . Did not many places of Scotland have Ionnian sounding names . I know that the capital of Turkiye is a ancient city of Gaelic Keltoi heritage. The good book mentions Galatians. The footprint and influence of these peoples was everywhere and still remembered . Take care and stay free .
Beautiful.
I think it stands for hope .
I must add this place to my bucket list
Wow! Nine thousand years! Could this blessed tree be the living embodiment of the pagen mythological tree Yggdrasil? Nine Realms for each of the one thousand years of its life, it feels that we're living in end times, Ragnarok was to Pagans what Armageddon is Christians
Beautiful
the first name of Britain was Albion based on Albina.. then Brutos came and named the Albion after his name Brutos then it became Britain..
Thank you