London's Ley Lines Pathways of Enlightenment

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He argued that straight lines could be drawn between various historic structures and that these represented trade routes created by ancient British societies. And when he built his seat of power upon this most ancient of London’s sacred mounds he was asserting his will upon an entire country.

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. She believes teaching people to connect to their intuition allows them to access their best source of guidance, their Higher Self. From one perspective, the tale of ley-hunting is one of a classic modern religious movement, arising with an apocalyptic language which appropriated some of the tropes of evangelical Christianity, flourished for a brief time, and then subsided into a set of motifs and assumptions retained by a particular subculture of believers. 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.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. 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. Parish churches were particularly favoured by the ley hunters, who often worked on the assumption that such churches had almost always been built atop pre-Christian sacred sites. But its story does not end there, for when one aligns it with its attendant stone circle – now marked by St. 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.

Another key book produced among the ley hunting community was Mysterious Britain, written by Janet and Colin Bord. The connection - or rather jump - is then made to a Grail Castle built on a confluence of ley lines.Anyone who has followed their paths across country will find that his life has been enriched, possibly deepened, by the experience. It's the same idea that drove Peter Ackroyd to speculate about the odd positioning of the Wren churches. The sub-title Pathways of Enlightenment, sets this book apart and tells you this book is covering some new ground. One ley lines enthusiast, Philip Heselton, established the Ley Hunter magazine, [23] which launched in 1965. They have been around for 70 years or so but no-one has known anything about them, they do not seem to have done much harm to us.

The tour was so informative, connecting history with interesting spiritual facts, I’d walked past so many places on the tour and never realised the meaning that they had. A number of subsequent kings continued the tradition, and like the London stone, it was said that so long as the remains were left undisturbed, London would remain safe. Clearly this area was of great importance, but by no means the only one in London, for a second stone circle used by the Druids, along with an adjacent College and Sanctuary, existed two miles to the west, on Island the Thorns. The one's going around the world take some figuring out but maybe they could have done it by observing the sun and planets.

This, he argued, showed that the mere existence of such lines in a set of points does not prove that the lines are deliberate artefacts, especially since it is known that telephone boxes were not laid out in any such manner or with any such intention.