London's Ley Lines Pathways of Enlightenment

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I grew up in the countryside, connected to Earth energy, so it makes complete sense to me that there are energy lines moving through the Earth.

He subsequently began drawing lines across his Ordnance Survey maps, developing the view that ancient British people had tended to travel in straight lines, using "mark points" along the landscape to guide them. Photography, the Index, and the Nonexistent: Alfred Watkins' Discovery (or Invention) of the Notorious Ley-lines of British Archaeology". His books Earthstars: Geometric Groundplan Underlying London's Ancient Sacred Sites and Its Significance for the New Age and London's Camelot and the Secrets of the Grail are on the recommended reading list if you do the course on London Mythology at City Lit.The Incas used "spirit-lines" or ceques with the Inca temple of the sun in Cuzco as their hub, marking the routes with wak’as, stone monuments that represent something revered. You could say simple blessings at each sacred site along the way, or do a meditation to visualise the energy of the earth and the universe flowing through the world, and through yourself, via the great network of ley lines. His ideas were rejected by most experts on British prehistory at the time, including both the small number of recognised archaeological scholars and local enthusiasts. Michell wrote that his book would spawn "countless theories of occult Earth mysteries and New Age psycho-naturalism; stories of telluric lines of force that ran invisibly across countries, their routes marked above ground by megaliths and tumuli; the leys… would be folded into theories of psychic energies, magnetic fields, aliens and other forms of extra-terrestrial presence. Buildings face certain directions because of sun and water, soil and wind, and remain in place for centuries.

Although he gained a small following, Watkins' ideas were never accepted by the British archaeological establishment, a fact that frustrated him. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Other statistical significance tests have shown that supposed ley-line alignments are no more significant than random occurrences and/or have been generated by selection effects. London's leys can lead you to magical places, to the soul of the city and to an understanding of the hidden unity which connects our ancient sacred sites to each other and also links our spiritual dimensions to theirs.The archaeologist Richard Atkinson once demonstrated this by taking the positions of telephone booths and pointing out the existence of "telephone box leys". In some cases the print you purchased may no longer be available as once an edition is sold out it cannot be reproduced. They were nevertheless generally in agreement that the ley lines were laid out between 5000 BCE and 2600 BCE, after the introduction of agriculture but before the introduction of metal in Britain. Like the fate associated with the aforementioned menhir of London, when Bran’s head was removed from the mound Bryn Gwyn, Britain was indeed invaded, by William of Normandy, who proceeded to built his White Tower upon the sacred mound, henceforth to be known as the Tower of London. The vertical vector created by various horizontal vectors crossing at that point is the location where the stone was located.

The bubble was burst, a little, in the late 1980s when scholars Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy worked out that the density of archaeological sites in the British landscape is so great that a line drawn through virtually anywhere would "clip" any number of significant places. The connection - or rather jump - is then made to a Grail Castle built on a confluence of ley lines. Explora la mayor tienda de eBooks del mundo y empieza a leer hoy mismo en la Web, en tu tablet, en tu teléfono o en tu dispositivo electrónico de lectura.Along the journey, the artist responded to what they saw with poetry, storytelling but most of all, song.

He also noted that the ley hunting community had "functioned as an indispensable training ground for a small but important group of non-academic scholars who have made a genuine contribution to the study of folklore and mythology. Blame ex-RAF pilot Tony Wedd who, in his leaflet Skyways and Landmarks (1961), suggested that ley lines were laid down by prehistoric societies to connect with alien spacecraft. Piping sewage became more common around 1830, and of course the piping companies disposed of it downhill in the rivers. Reflecting his move towards archaeology, in 1991, Devereux published an article on sightlines from the prehistoric site of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire in Antiquity.The Club survived him, although it became largely inactive at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and formally disbanded in 1948. Looking back on the book's reception in 2000, Williamson noted that "archaeologists weren't particularly interested, and ley-line people were hostile". It was only in the 1980s that professional archaeologists in Britain began to engage with the ley hunting movement. Peter you are absolutely right since London 's industry began seriously to run down in he 1950s the water table is rising and this in itself must have a profound effect on many of London's ancient sites.