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Thom lent the idea of leys some support; in 1971 he stated the view that Neolithic British engineers would have been capable of surveying a straight line between two points that were otherwise not visible from each other. Thus by associating the shape with the position of temples, the sites – and the people who entered them – would be imbued and blessed with this etheric energy. Ley lines ( / l eɪ/) are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures, prehistoric sites and prominent landmarks. Airborne transmission was regarded by authorities as most likely, and Victorian authorities weren't convinced immediately but eventually commissioned Engineers to build a large sewage system.

According to his account, he was driving across the hills near Blackwardine, Herefordshire, when he looked across the landscape and observed the way that several features lined up together.

Walking those lines of energy [feels] like a way of intentional healing, of showing gratitude and awareness to those places.

Do you want to stay up to date with the latest news, views, features and opinion from across the city? Michell's publication was followed by an upsurge in ley hunting as enthusiasts travelled around the British landscape seeking to identify what they believed to be ley lines connecting various historic structures. Continuing belief [ edit ] Modern Pagans in Britain often believe in ley lines running through ancient sites, such as the Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent.

For anyone interested the book is published by Abacus and quotes like "If they did but know it, the Victorians had far less to fear from the gasses given off by the Thames than the river itself. BC he asked to be buried in the conical hill so his presence in the mound would offer protection to the future citizens of London.

His critics noted that his ideas relied on drawing lines between sites established at different periods of the past. Ley hunters nevertheless often took an interest in the work of archaeo-astronomers like Alexander Thom and Euan Mackie, being attracted to their arguments about the existence of sophisticated astronomer-priests in British prehistory. He was an intensely rational person with an active intellect, and I think he would be a bit disappointed with some of the fringe aspects of ley lines today.

He was more concerned than many other ley hunters with finding objective evidence for the idea that unusual forms of energy could be measured at places where prehistoric communities had erected structures. I recently visited the Medway valley in Kent however, and tried dowsing for the first time at the site of the Chestnuts long barrow (the owner of the site suggested trying this). 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. 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.

Like others of its kind, the connotation with ‘white’ refers to the mound as a place of veneration of the Light, the Sun. The shape of a triangle can be represented as a point on the sphere, and the distribution of all shapes can be thought of as a distribution over the sphere. This is a wonderful story, though one I feel Simon Pope, like myself, relishes telling without entirely believing. Reflecting his move towards archaeology, in 1991, Devereux published an article on sightlines from the prehistoric site of Silbury Hill, Wiltshire in Antiquity.

In The View Over Atlantis (1969), described as one of the most influential books of the hippy underground movement, Michell posited spiritual dimensions to ley lines, created the idea of Earth energies, and made Glastonbury the undisputed capital of the New Age. He was one of the founding members of the Dragon Project, launched in London in 1977 with the purpose of conducting radioactivity and ultrasonic tests at prehistoric sites, particularly the stone circles created in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

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