Ley Lines: The Greatest Landscape Mystery

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Broadbent, Simon (1980). "Simulating the Ley Hunter". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General). 143 (2): 109–140. doi: 10.2307/2981985. JSTOR 2981985. From the 1940s through to the 1960s, the archaeological establishment blossomed in Britain due to the formation of various university courses on the subject. This helped to professionalise the discipline, and meant that it was no longer an amateur-dominated field of research. [13] It was in the latter decade of this period that a belief in ley lines was taken up by members of the counterculture, [13] where—in the words of the archaeologist Matthew Johnson—they were attributed with "sacred significance or mystical power". [20] Ruggles noted that in this period, ley lines came to be conceived as "lines of power, the paths of some form of spiritual force or energy accessible to our ancient ancestors but now lost to narrow-minded twentieth-century scientific thought". [19] The guide also contains details about dowsing as well as a scientific hypothesis for how the different energy lines and the energy grids are thought to come about and how & why they differ. Whether you are just interested in this subject or someone who is looking to improve their dowsing, this book will greatly advance you further in both areas.

When I began looking for local ley lines, I first thought of a local Native burial mound located in Safety Harbor, FL. I had a feeling it was built by the Natives on or close by a ley line. Then, I simply googled “ley line maps + United States” and BOOM. There are dozens of maps accessible online. Please don’t ask me to provide you with a map. It’s as simple as a Google search. Once you have a ley line map, print it out and lay it on top of a local map to see where the lines travel and intersect. If we just look at Watkins’ original idea, he was indeed correct that often you can draw perfectly straight lines along major monuments in Britain. Williamson and Bellamy's book brought two different responses from the ley hunter community. [41] Some maintained that even if the presence of earth energies running through ley lines could not be demonstrated with empirical evidence and rational argumentation, this did not matter; for them, a belief in ley lines was an act of faith, and in their view archaeologists were too narrow-minded to comprehend this reality. [41] The other approach was to further engage archaeologists by seeking out new data and arguments to bolster their beliefs in ley lines. [41] Hutton noted that this pulled along "a potential fissure between rationalism and mysticism which had always been inherent in the movement". [41] Marcus, Clare Cooper (1987). "Alternative Landscapes: Ley-Lines, Feng-Shui and the Gaia Hypothesis". Landscape. 29 (3): 1–10.The Malvern Hills in the United Kingdom, said by Alfred Watkins to have a ley line passing along their ridge Ley lines have been found all over the world since Watkins originally put his ideas to paper, with some being found in India, China and even Australia.

Therefore, it may not necessarily imply a great deal that you can draw these lines—at least in the south of England as he did. In his 1961 book Skyways and Landmarks, Tony Wedd published his idea that Watkins' leys were both real and served as ancient markers to guide alien spacecraft that were visiting Earth. [21] He came to this conclusion after comparing Watkins' ideas with those of the French ufologist Aimé Michel, who argued for the existence of "orthotenies", lines along which alien spacecraft travelled. [22] Wedd suggested that either spacecraft were following the prehistoric landmarks for guidance or that both the leys and the spacecraft were following a "magnetic current" flowing across the Earth. [22]This 2nd edition of this book contains an expanded classification of Earth energies, Earth energy grids, Nodes and now includes a new classification of large Vortexes along with their descriptions. In addition to that it contains maps of Energy lines around the city of Bath in the UK and a wide area around the Avebury stone circle. Archaeologists note that there is no evidence that ley lines were a recognised phenomenon among ancient European societies and that attempts to draw them typically rely on linking together structures that were built in different historical periods. Archaeologists and statisticians have demonstrated that a random distribution of a sufficient number of points on a plane will inevitably create alignments of random points purely by chance. Skeptics have also stressed that the esoteric idea of earth energies running through ley lines has not been scientifically verified, remaining an article of faith for its believers. Carroll, Robert Todd (3 December 2015). "Ley Lines". The Skeptic's Dictionary . Retrieved 16 September 2019.

Michell repeated his beliefs in his 1969 book The View Over Atlantis. [24] Hutton described it as "almost the founding document of the modern earth mysteries movement". [1] Here he interpreted ley lines by reference to the Chinese concept of lung mei energy lines. He proposed that an advanced ancient society that had once covered much of the world had established ley lines across the landscape to harness this lung mei energy. [25] Translating the term lung mei as "dragon paths", he reinterpreted tales from English mythology and folklore in which heroes killed dragons so that the dragon-slayers became the villains. [26] Hutton later noted that Michell's ideas "embodied a fervent religious feeling, which though not Christian was heavily influenced by Christian models", adopting an "evangelical and apocalyptic tone" that announced the coming of an Age of Aquarius in which ancient wisdom would be restored. [23] Michell invented various claims about archaeological evidence to suit his purpose. [27] He viewed archaeologists as antagonists, seeing them as the personification of the modern materialism he was railing against. [23] In supernatural circles, ley lines are often at the heart of understanding our place in the universe and on planet Earth.Part of the popularity of ley hunting was that individuals without any form of professional training in archaeology could take part and feel that they could rediscover "the magical landscapes of the past". [31] Ley hunting welcomed those who had "a strong interest in the past but feel excluded from the narrow confines of orthodox academia". [32] The ley hunting movement often blended their activities with other esoteric practices, such as numerology and dowsing. [33] The movement had a diverse base, consisting of individuals from different classes and of different political opinions: it contained adherents of both radical left and radical right ideologies. [34] Ley hunters often differed on how they understood the ley lines; some believed that leys only marked a pre-existing energy current, whereas others thought that the leys helped to control and direct this energy. [35] 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. [36] For many ley hunters, this Neolithic period was seen as a golden age in which Britons lived in harmony with the natural environment. [35]

Ruggles, Clive L. N. (2005). "Ley Lines". Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopaedia of Cosmologies and Myth. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. pp.224–226. ISBN 978-1-85109-477-6.Rory Duff has been dowsing for over 35 years and In 2012 he was awarded the Billy Gawn prize from the British Society of Dowsers for his research into Earth Energy lines.