What is Project Avalon to you?

[Harmony]

On my journey over the years, mostly reading, Project Avalon has been a place to find inspiration, to contemplate the big questions and quite often a sanctuary.

It brougnt me solace when I felt like I forgot to read the fine print before incarnating here. I am grateful to Bill and all the members who have contributed over the years. Don't underestimate the effect you have had on others across the world.

[Bluegreen]

I am glad to be with others now when I am experiencing loneliness like I never have before

[leavesoftrees]

PA is a giant encyclopedia where you can find information on almost anything - from in depth and alternative analysis of current affairs - when COVID first broke it was my go-to site to find out what was happening, it suggests an incredible range of complementary treatments and dietary advice for health issues, not to mention ancient and alt history, music, art, photography, nature, animals, how to live off grid

Fortunately most, if not all, the warnings and predictions posted here never eventuate - the 3 gorges dam still seems to be going strong; a global coastal event killing millions of people predicted at the end of 2019 never happened. Rat fish oil tanked along with Pete Peterson, and no one mentions C60 anymore. Moderators mysteriously disappear, new ones pop up brandishing their real names, people retire, or are retired, they go on sabbatical, and return again like a comet blazing across the night sky. Some of us get very sick and some of us die. It's a universe in microcosm happening on our screens across the planet!

[Sunny-side-up]

WOW and thank you Mark/Rahkyt for this OP

Project Avalon is the place to be, too unravel what the hell is going on in this mad world.
The people and minds here are a breath of fresh air, they are my brothers and sisters.
You are the people I wish I had living next door to me, the people I wish I could just confide in on a daily basis as the norm, face to face.
I won't you as the majority
It is so mad out there in the lame stream, the so called reality, it is so corrupted and far from a loving truthful reality, but Avalon is the mirror.
Love you Avalon, Love you Bill and the Mods, Love all you members.

Alan


Sorry about my Grandma
Joke Grammar

[9ideon]

One of the last places where I might meet fellow travelers on that infamous road of knowledge.

Actually, I'll take it a little step further, one of the last places not infiltrated or completely catsrated by the money game. I am very happy this community is set up the way it is.

[Antihero]

Posted by Wind (here)
A gathering of souls.

I'll steal this one, and by the way people! remember to love yourselves.

And I'm gone like the Wind, x0x0.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I think I've aired this notion before, that a good number of Avalon members know/knew each other in other existences, previous lives, or have crossed paths before. That's what I suspect. This is like a worldwide communal meeting place for like-minded, and maybe familiar souls, which the internet makes possible. I see Avalon as my extended family. This is the only place I ever felt a sense of belonging. I feel blessed and privileged to be part of it. Thank you Bill now and forever for making this happen.

[Mark]

I love all of these answers, thank you one and all for participating. This is really and truly what it is all about. The dedication to the search for meaning and truth, whatever that means to us all in the context of a world where truth does not seem to want to be found, even by the most ardent of seekers.

So many wonderful responses. What struck me about them so far is the commitment to community and the way PA fulfills a need that cannot be assuaged elsewhere for some of us. Sure, there are other forums and gatherings of souls out there and there are many honorable seekers we come across in our journeys out in the world and here online. This is a wonderful place to come and read and dive off into the void, searching and following links down rabbit holes and into alternate dimensions of knowing. I find that the internet, in general, has become so difficult to search using the major search platforms that the only way to find the real juicy stuff, the things that google doesn't want most people to find, is to come where people who are integrally involved in these matters congregate in order to get the information in as direct a manner as possible, even if it is second, third or fourth-hand.

Being able to access the Avalon Library, the minds and the threads with so much personal experience and conjecture that opens up your own mind and leads you in directions you'd never thought of before, is a major benefit of being present in the project. Just the possibility of having your mind opened to something you'd never thought about before and expanding your possibilities is worth so much.

[Zirconian]

I wish to take this opportunity to thank all PA members for contributing to a rich fabric of shared information, experiences and ideas and that is what PA is to me.

There are so many talented and gifted people here.

We may soon like never before need a community like this, so thank you Bill, mods and contributors for creating this space.

[pabranno]

I resonate with all the thoughts/feelings expressed by all you wonderful people. Any response I have would be redundant EXCEPT........I have been embarrassingly remiss in contributing to the maintenance of this special (really...SPECIAL) forum. This thread has hammered that home to me.
If I am so grateful, my natural response would be to show it.
Thank you all for sharing through all these years, and forgive me for not putting my money where my mouth is.
I do so today😉
Pamela

[wondering]

I go on PA early morning, last before bedtime (although I try to avoid really scarey stuff then, I save that for daytime reading!) and in between time, depending on the day. I can't even guess what this past year would have been like without the sane information, humor and uplifting posts by everyone here. I asked a woman of my age in the grocery the other day why she had gotten the "vaccine". We had been having a chat about many things and sharing a laugh, a recipe and a walk down memory lane - my best interactions these days are often in stores! lol! She replied that she had gotten the vaccine "just to be safe" 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 It was so clear to me in that moment that the only reason I wasn't thinking the same way was because of PA. It's not that I think I am "right", necessarily, but that I feel my view is based on a lot of reading and watching that most people just don't, or choose not to, have access to, and for which I am enormously grateful. So thank you, Bill, and all you lovely other people who are part of my life in ways you will never know. Your depth of understanding, compassion, knowledge and your ability to communicate all those leave me in awe sometimes. Love and blessings to you all, Diane

[Ivanhoe]

To me it's a refuge, a home, in a world of madness and intolerance it is a sigh of sweet relief for my worried and tired soul.
I love you all.

[meeradas]

Extended family.

[Tyy1907]

It's the innumerable amount of possible futures. It's a warning. A call to action to like minded people. It's where the dreamers, the seekers, the marginalized, the misunderstood, the light workers come to. To help them remember why it is we came. Avalon helps me to validate my intuitive observations. There's so much more thats all I got for now!

[bojancan]

I could sign under every post here. They all resonate with me.
Can't imagine where I would be today without PA. Gratitude flows from my heart to Bill and all extended family.
Wishing to be alive and open for many more years to come - hopefully soon without the need to bring up all this negative stuff, but focus mostly on bright new reality we will live in...
Francis

[Mashika]

This was/is the only place where i was able to express myself, even if not fully but if you would compare to other places, this is kind of the reasons

- Was never told to 'grow up"
- Was never told to "come back in 20 years once you know better'
- Was never told 'go back to your own country' or any such thing
- Was never told 'Why do you even bother? Don't you have a site on your own language so you can join there?' or such
- Was never told 'I know you think you are right, but let me explain why you can't know better than me'
- Was never told 'you don't belong here'
- Was never told "What can you possibly know, you are just a kid, shut up and listen so you can learn for once"
- Was never told "You talk as if you knew something, you are just barren land to me"

Among many many other things i have experienced everywhere else

In short, i found that people here were open, kind and aware, and they wanted to hear and talk and they treated me with respect and much love, and never once told me to go away because i had different opinions, unlike any other site i have been in the past 5 years or so, which always, no matter what, ended going into one of those points listed above

None of that ever happens here, and even if i go completely frustrated, there's always respect and kindness and willing to listen and move on from bad stuff. Again unlike anywhere else

If i were to compare, most other sites are like going to work, and having to follow ridiculous rules and being forced to act the part of a good employee, while Avalon is like going to the mountains, and feel the fresh air in your face and if you want to scream you do, and if you just want to sit and watch the wind blowing and the sky, you do, and if you want to sleep against a tree, you just do. And it will be perfectly fine to tell everyone else what you dreamed while lying there, and it will be cool and people will actually share their own dreams, just when they did the same as you. There will never be "I'm sure you did, but i had a better one that you, because i know you are not better than me" situation going on

So, to me, Avalon is like the mountains, where you can be free, in ways no other place in the world you can be

ETA: I also always felt like it was like looking at things from the top-down, like a black box, always circling around but never actually getting into it..

It was never fully what i hoped and wanted, there was always lack of meaning, and lack of joy and purpose, and all conversations would always be "this is great, thanks for sharing, now good luck and bye!" Then found that here it wasn't at all like that, could not even begin to describe how different the world looks now, once you actually can expand on everything and start getting somewhere

[gnostic9]

Thank you very much for your wonderfully composed opening post Mark/Rahkyt.


I would never have known any of you avalonians were it not for the creation of this shining oasis in an upside-down world by Bill Ryan. Guaire mile mhaith agat ( a hundred thousand thank you's) to you Bill for such a gift.


Avalon quenches my spirits thirst!


I love all you beautiful compassionate joyful loving giving healing exploring caring souls!


Love peace and joy to all!

[Mashika]

Posted by leavesoftrees (here)
PA is a giant encyclopedia where you can find information on almost anything - from in depth and alternative analysis of current affairs - when COVID first broke it was my go-to site to find out what was happening, it suggests an incredible range of complementary treatments and dietary advice for health issues, not to mention ancient and alt history, music, art, photography, nature, animals, how to live off grid

Fortunately most, if not all, the warnings and predictions posted here never eventuate - the 3 gorges dam still seems to be going strong; a global coastal event killing millions of people predicted at the end of 2019 never happened. Rat fish oil tanked along with Pete Peterson, and no one mentions C60 anymore. Moderators mysteriously disappear, new ones pop up brandishing their real names, people retire, or are retired, they go on sabbatical, and return again like a comet blazing across the night sky. Some of us get very sick and some of us die. It's a universe in microcosm happening on our screens across the planet!

If you have played online for some time, you get to see the meme of "ok login off now, see you tomorrow guys!" and then the status of the friend says "Last Seen: 450 days ago", and you never get to know what happened because he lived on another country and you always only met online playing games and never called other way or knew addresses or personal info...

This also happens when you go to multi cultural schools, where friends come live school life with you then go away once school is over and you may keep contact for some time then lost contact for years/ever

Life is like that sometimes

"Lo que sera, sera"

[heretogrow]

Why? I love you all as much as I love my own blood relatives. You are my soul family and you are just precious to me.You are all amazing in so many different ways. And you, with your wonder and broad wisdom, curiosity, tenacity, and search for the truth, in turn, make, me a better person. I am indebted to your wonderful spirits and better off because of the richness you gift to me each day!

I truly Love you from the pit of my soul!

[Strat]

More or less Avalon is a social outlet. I'm not on social media or any other forums. Well a couple, but I rarely post or lurk them. One is an auto repair forum that's full of numbskulls and the other one is a Buddhist forum. The former is only good for technical advice, but not always. Too many dumb, intolerable rednecks and only a few actual mechanics. The latter is great, it's just a very linear and in depth forum. Very great for research, I do some lurking there.

Avalon is the only place I socialize in. I used to be a member of a large forum for the skeptic minded and I posted there similar to how I do here. That place was a madhouse though. People would/still do viciously argue, openly insult and wish ill on each other. It's unbelievable the things those dummies would say to each other, they were the mightiest of all keyboard warriors. Two of them did get so worked up over an online argument that they tried to set up a fight in their local area (UK somewhere) - they got banned for that. I was laughing at how stupid they could be to do such a thing. Straight out of a South Park episode..

I rarely debate here, I don't see much of a reason to. Many of us are set in our own beliefs. Disagreements happen everywhere in life and it's most tolerable here. This is a place where I can stick with, "Do I want to be right or happy?" I do call people out occasionally, but that's rare.