The Night Stairs. This is Furness Abbey, Our Lady of Furness, the Vale of Nightshade. To me it is a tranquil and peaceful land with streams on both sides singing into the atmosphere.
These are the recently reconstructed night stairs. My imaginal space creates the picture of gentle harmonics of chanting monks, with lanterns descending the night stairs for 2am prayers. The chanting undulates through the stone walls,  spirals  upwards through the vale carried by the winds of the north west coastal landscape. The melodies are transported over the waters, the intentions of the prayers flow through mists to shores and over the fields and mountains. The ascending prayers cascade down the mountain streams to all the earth, infused with the hums, the vibrations, the prayer intentions for all humanity, from the monks of the vale of Furness Abbey.
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