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". Do you want to stay up to date with the latest news, views, features and opinion from across the city? Reminds me of the York ghost sighting of a troop of Roman soldiers seen passing through a pub cellar but only from the waist up - the original Roman road was 3 feet below. 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.

It is not unlikely that people needed to find ways to mark a track, which is all that ley lines maybe were. The idea of "leys" as paths traversing the British landscape was developed by Alfred Watkins, a wealthy businessman and antiquarian who lived in Hereford. From traditional coaching to Cacao Ceramics and Kundalini Yoga, to Breathwork and Past Life Regression. The tour will go ahead in all weathers, therefore please make sure you arrive in comfortable shoes, with a bottle of water and clothes that match the weather. As Vivienne states above this culture of prehistory would seem to have been very sophisticated in many ways.First discussed by Michell in A View over Atlantis, the ley line runs 350 miles across numerous sites dedicated to the archangel, from St Michael's Mount, to the Norfolk Coast, all the while oriented towards sunrise on 8 May, when the Latin liturgy celebrates the Apparition of St Michael. When asked about the idea that UFOs had carved them out, he said: "Some of the long distance ones are difficult to explain and go over the Pacific so it's difficult to know how they would have done that. Many form a recognisable pattern of sacred geometry, a vast temple groundplan identical to the design used to lay out Stonehenge's megaliths over 3,500 years ago.

BUT, there is a secondary detectable flow along It's also a useful guide to the old stones of London which lie scattered around the suburbs, largely ignored , but linked, as this book proves, by the old leys which marked a megalithic network used by our ancestors to connect to the spiritual dimensions of our land.It wasn't until after the World War Two that the potential of the ley line as a repository for all things mystical really started to take hold. 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.

real Camelot once existed at the centre of Enfield Chase, the Royal Hunting Ground of the Plantagenet Kings. The Earthstars geometry encoded into the landscape must be having a positive harmonising effect on that water, because it is the sort of sacred geometry that results from Dr. Watkins never attributed any supernatural significance to leys; he believed that they were simply pathways that had been used for trade or ceremonial purposes, very ancient in origin, possibly dating back to the Neolithic, certainly pre-Roman. William the Conqueror was certainly not an ignorant man nor a mere warlord, but one of the last monarchs to fully understand the meaning and implications of asserting one’s power upon an ancient mound of veneration.

As Hutton observed, a belief in "ancient earth energies have passed so far into the religious experience of the 'New Age' counter-culture of Europe and America that it is unlikely that any tests of evidence would bring about an end to belief in them. I'm currently reading Underground London by Steven Smith and like Chris he suggests that London sits on an enormous marsh/lake.

One ley lines enthusiast, Philip Heselton, established the Ley Hunter magazine, [23] which launched in 1965. I've always been interested in the opposition between the natural and the artificial, the sacred and the un-sacred," explains tan jones.It is an estimation of this Druid site’s importance that the English Parliament should have been built adjacent to it and nowhere else in London. The paper by statistician Simon Broadbent [53] is one such example and the discussion after the article involving a large number of other statisticians demonstrates the high level of agreement that alignments have no significance compared to the null hypothesis of random locations. He refused to publish an advert for The Old Straight Track in Antiquity, at which Watkins became very bitter towards him. More than 100 years after they were first noted, and long after they became associated with paranormal activity and hidden energy, hardly anyone is convinced they exist, and if they do - who made them?