winter solstice
the free web magazine of dowsing & geomancy/Earth harmony,
in Australasia and beyond. Edited by Alanna Moore.
Welcome to the winter solstice issue of Geomantica, June 2005, which comes on-line unexpectently right on time! Not going to north America & the UK, as planned, has given your editor some breathing space at home and the chance to produce a new little book on megaliths, plus new DVD covers in glorious tehnicolour (how did I survive without a colour printer before now?).
So welcome to this MEGA (LITHIC) edition.
If you love big stones (and small) - you're going to have a great read!
The greatest news is that cultural heritage values have held sway in court in the saga to stop a 34m high mobile phone tower from being erected by Telstra on top of highly sacred Mt Franklin. A David versus Goliath battle in which your editor was involved.
The win is timely, for the push is on for increased mobile phone coverage in country areas of Australia. Let's not allow gung ho telcos destroy beautiful landscape features, as they have along the mountain tops of the Grampians/Gariwerd in western Victoria!
My advice to readers is to make sure that iconic high points in your region are suitably protected by landscape planning instruments, with adequate heritage studies done, if required, as soon as possible. If your local council doesnt have a heritage officer, pester them to get one, so that appropriate studies are made of landscape values.
Become a 'neo-indigenous' person, as there are not enough Aboriginal people to protect every place under threat. As soon as you hear that a tower might be placed somewhere special - write a letter to the local council explaining your feelings about the location and its inappropriatness for a tower. Putting ithoughts into writing is a good start, and tell the local media how you feel too.
In the rest of this issue - there's evidence that wind farms have been fatal to livestock; and I have tackled a difficult editing job of Miroslav Provod's articles - where English is a second language (I hope I haven't altered anything the wrong way).
I wish to thank contributors to this fine edition - Miroslav Provod and Elizabeth Hamilton for feature articles, and Billy Arold and Tiiu Vanamois for internet news clippings (keep sending them in please, folks!)
Until next quarter -
Peace and bright blessings
from your editor - Alanna Moore
Hi Alanna
Just a short note to thank you for yesterday's presentation.
I went home and tried for underground water. Found some, then
tried distance scanning for the same. Senses pointed to approx
11oclock from where I was facing. The ask - how far? The feeling
I was getting was 50mtrs, so headed of with the pendulum swinging
and found that it stopped about that far out. I didn't count
my paces but looking back it appeared to be about that far.
When I was walking I held my left hand palm down parallel to the ground when I crossed over the spot I felt a sensation in my left hand, the same sensation as when we were empowering the Power Tower in the vegetable garden. I will keep trying to tune in on the energies around the Farm/House
I am really interested in healthy soils, healthy animals, healthy food chain, healthy humans. We've been following Pat Coleby's balanced methods of farming since the late eighty's, early nineties, after losing 14 cows to grass tetany. After that we decided that conventional practices were not working and needed to change.
Since changing and beginning the process of remineralising the soils following Albreight system - animal health has improved. There was no grass tetany almost immediately with Pats licks out all the time. We moved to a situation where we have trouble getting the cows to use the licks, so that tells me the soils are becoming more in balance and the nutrients that the cows are grazing for are available.
We market from the farm to the consumer with home delivery of chemical free beef (just a little back ground on our sytem).
thanks again
Cheers for Now
Doug Paton
Corryong, Vic
My dear Alanna
How long have we been associated?
Just back from New Zealand healing and geopathic stress.
In healing I have a group of doctors (specialists) in spirit,
over whom is an ET, since 1983.
I supply the power for my own use of theirs.
Work done in NZ borders on the miraculous
I am one of the very few men allowed INSIDE a closed female religious
order outside Brisbane (Carmelite).
102 coming up in April.
Then I hope to return to Mornington Peninsula for healing sessions.
Keep up the good work.
By the way I have never charged for healing, (so) cannot be called
a quack.
I am an associate of the Psionic Medical Society UK.
PAX VOBISCUM
Cheerio
Frank Moody
WOW. No clues on what Frank gets up to at the Carmelite Monastery, but I'm sure it's miraculous! Frank should be regarded as a national treasure, or perhaps even an international treasure. Frank and I have been associated since I started publishing his letters in my 'Dowsing News' magazine over 20 years ago. Editor.
omshreedham@optusnet.com.au
Extract from a recent email-out:
"Worldwide Agnihotra is being taken up now by many, many people.
Australia is no exception and we are overjoyed to serve this wonderful happening.
In April we did a workshop tour in Victoria and many people took up Agnihotra and are keen to keep the practice going.
We have been down to Victoria about 3 times a year over the last 3 years and it never ceases to amaze us that in drought rain falls when we are there. It seems to be a symbolic demonstration of what Homa Therapy can do."
Frits and Lee Ringma,
Cessnock, NSW.
May 2005
The fact that during the twentieth century nobody has given reasons for the principle of reactions of the dowsing-rod predicates that researches have not been led the correct way and it will be necessary to change the tactics for further exploration. Whatever I have mentioned on www.miroslavprovod.com can be designated as the first moves in the research of dowsing, further study will require the cooperation of specialists of more branches. For obtaining further information it is necessary to perform repeated experiments under participation of specialists from many branches. But this can be pursued only by persons who have dealt with dowsing and are ready apply to it their leisure time. I have in mind a co-ordinate research at which all its participants would work on the uniform task and after collective evaluation they would determine another task.
Onwww.miroslavprovod.com I have described how repeatedly and infallibly can be identified three energy components of high voltage distribution (energy space, energy zones and inter-zones). These components are advantaged in that they are not movable and can be exploited like fundamental micro (etalon). I think that it would be suitable to use it for unification of the reactions of dowsing-rods so, that all participants of the experiment would at first identify components of high voltage distribution with the dowsing rod, which I have described at mentioned www pages.
I have no doubt that in reactions will be a conformity. Afterwards the participants would control reactions in the identical places by the type of dowsing-rod, which they routinely use, but with changing their proportions. I am convinced, that these energy components, which are the reasons of dowsing rod reactions, are much more than three and their charting from the large quantity of data could be used for further research. If a sufficient number of persons will signify an interest on this activity, I will describe detailed procedure for the identification of high voltage distribution.
I will willingly participate in all experiments and discussions,
but at my age I cannot pursue exacting coordination. I will embrace
if some institution or somebody who has conditions for it will
take up this work. I ask interested persons for activity in this
collective research and interested persons concerned on its coordination
to contact me.
I have sent this message to 354 addresses.
Thanks for your attention
Miroslav Provod
www.miroslavprovod.com
Discover the lore of the standing stones (menhirs) and stone
circles. From ancient traditions in Europe to circular Aboriginal
bora grounds in Australia, and on to today's stone circle revival,
plus modern medicine wheels and labyrinths, and their fascinating
energies. There are also chapters on stone circle medicine, the
healing of sites and lastly a guide to making small backyard
stone arrangements and sacred ritual in them.
32 minutes
'Megalithomania' is about the fascination with stone circles and standing stones, and was filmed in Ireland, England, Australia and New Zealand.
The unfolding history of the revival of interest in ancient British megaliths is described, starting at that largest of stone circles at Avebury. See also The Stone of Destiny at Tara, in Ireland and at Carrowmore on the west coast, stone circles/passage graves which date back to over 7000 years.
From antiquarians and astro-archeology, to energy dowsing (dowser/author Tom Graves giving a demonstration), and from the scientific to the folkloric, the enigma of the stones unravels. But there are still more questions than solid answers.
Why were people creating calendars in stone and what was the significance of lunar eclipses? What of alignments/ ley lines, nature spirits and the Earth energy networks found by dowsers and sensitives there? The film offers explanations on many levels, and through the eyes of several geomancers.
Crossing down-under, the film then looks at some natural stone megaliths in Australasia and contemplates the geomantic understandings of place there. We get to touch upon some geomythology, at a legendary stone -The Navigator, on a beach in New Zealand; and then see the iconic Nimbin Rocks, in northern New South Wales (Australia), the haunt of the hairy Nimbinje spirit. We learn of the fate of the stolen Devil's Marble (- there's a happy ending there.)
Aboriginal traditions and sacred space are being revived in many parts of Australia, and we get to see an Aboriginal teacher with his didgeridoo taking students on a "trip to the Dreamtime", at an ancient (natural granite) megalithic Aboriginal site near Melbourne.
In central Victoria we meet Maura McCabe's backyard healing stone and join in with a respectful ceremony of approach with geomancers Junitta Vallak and Billy Arnold, at the Touchstone, which marks the entrance to an important sacred site - the mountaintop 'Rock of Ages', near Maldon, home of the Rainbow Serpent.
Gain a sense of the Dreamtime, the timeless qualities of sacredness in the environment. Hear the mind altering and healing sounds of the digeridoo. Learn of successful techniques of Earth healing in England. And get inspired to make your own small stone circle. You too can have a sacred focal point in your own back yard!
From feng shui to modern urban geomancy, this film spans a wide spectrum of geomantic styles, starting with ancient origins in China. Five geomancers in Australia then describe their work and Earth healing experiences, and demonstrate methods to counteract environmental energy stresses (such as geopathic and electro-stress, traumatized landscapes etc).
Tim Strachan, an urban geomancer in Sydney, talks about how he discovered the problems of environmental energies, through his natural therapies work. Patients, in some cases, were not improving until this factor was addressed, he found. Tim surveyed devices on the market to alleviate the problem and went on to develop his own ('Energy Store') product range.
Shirley Loats then describes an Earth healing experience in country New South Wales, prompted by a wave of suicides in a district. She clairvoyantly saw a change in energies in the process and reports the end of the suicide epidemic in the area.
In country Victoria Tony F. demonstrates his unusual method of Earth acupuncture that involves ordinary house bricks, at a friend's home where he found geopathic stress.
Frank St John in Brisbane then explains some of his techniques, developed over many decades, using blink dowsing, charged water for energy neutralisation, etc.
Lastly, Wynelle Delaney in Perth (Western Australia) describes her philosophy and style of radionic healing, where household energies are diagnosed and harmonised remotely. The energies of inhabitants too must be assessed and balanced, she says, for wholistic healing of both to be possible.
For your walking or sitting meditation, your sacred garden temenos.
Supply, plus site selection and installation available, generally only
in central Victoria & Melbourne. POA
of the eucalyptus-leaved Green Man,
divine masculine spirit of nature!
(Green Ladies not yet available)
Email enquiries to:
info@geomantica.com.
Extracted from BBC on-line 16/2/05.
New Zealand's newly built Stonehenge aims to help people to discover astronomy.
"You can read as much as you like in
a book how the sun and the moon work, how people use stars to
navigate by, or to foretell the seasons," says Richard Hall,
president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society which built the
henge.
"You stand here amongst the henge and
you show people exactly how it works. Somehow it simplifies it
and it becomes that much more easy to understand," he said.
"It's quite amazing watching a sunrise on a solstice or an equinox just sit on top of a heel stone. It's quite fantastic," says construction team manager Kay Leather.
"The original is rather difficult to understand and nowadays one is not even allowed to walk near it so this one is much more hands on" says Geoff Austin, of the University of Auckland.
Cement-Henge
To build Stonehenge Aotearoa, about an hour's drive from Wellington, the society received a government grant of NZ$56,500. The astronomical society's volunteers supplied 11,000 hours of labour over the 18 months the henge took to build. They concocted pillars and lintels from wooden frames, covered those with cement board and wire mesh and sprayed concrete over the structure.
The result of that toil is a henge of 24 upright pillars and connecting lintels that is 30m in diameter and about 4m high. In the centre of the henge is a 5m-tall obelisk, the eye of which points at the south celestial pole.
Set into a tiled mosaic that runs out from
the obelisk along the meridian is a 10m analemma, the figure
of eight pattern that the path of sun traces over a year.
Outside the circle of the henge stand six heel stones, the markers
for the rising and setting points of the sun at solstice and
equinox.
To make the henge truly of Aotearoa, the astronomers have ensured that their creation marks the stars and constellations that Polynesian navigators used on their epic voyages across the Pacific Ocean, and they have also incorporated Maori lore.
In opening the henge, Professor Alan MacDiarmid, the Wairarapa-born
Nobel laureate, said: "We are all standing on the shoulders
of giants. Giants from 500 years ago, giants of Maori wisdom
of the last few hundred years and the emerging wisdom of the
21st century today."
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Extracted from: Wind farms
a health time bomb
By John Carter, The Land (NSW), 31 March 2005.
Carter wrote that he was shaken to read an article on large cattle losses from 'stray voltage' in the US. Mindly sceptical, he wasn't convinced until he actually spoke on the phone to some of the people concerned, who related the following.
"One dairy farmer lost 600 cows over
some years as stray voltage reduced his cows' immune system.
He had so much stray voltage that when he dug copper wire into
his soil it lit an electric light bulb. He has just won a $1.7
million court settlement from the electricity company. The company
is appealing and may break him with its protracted legal action.
His veterinarian told me the power companies are now buying and
demolishing homes near the Wisconsin wind-farms because they
are afraid of huge lawsuits over health damage."
"Scott Srnke of Denmark, Wisconsin, had the highest performing Holstein dairy in Wisconsin until a 14-tower wind power station was erected beside his farm. Cows began to die and milk production plummeted. He explained to me 'a cow has an acid stomach and is like a battery, she has four leads to the earth and is prone to pick up stray currents.. Mine were cooked internally as in a microwave oven,' he said. Post-mortems 'revealed hearts and liver shot completely'..."
"I spoke with another dairy farmer in Utah who is losing
up to 10pc of his cows every year through stray voltage from
a coal-powered power station.
He and neighbours have a $100 million lawsuit against the power
company."
"Wind farms are like any other power
station - only as safe as their control of stray voltage. The
multiple linkages between towers actually give more opportunity
for electricity to escape into the earth and it can be magnified
by underground streams and wet seasons."
We do not know much about menhirs, maybe only that erect rock could have served for ritual ceremonies. During past years I have published my new knowledge on megaliths resulting from my research, and it has been placed onwww.volny.cz/mprovod . The total results of experiments and new knowledge enables one to carry out the appreciation of historical buildings from wider standpoints.
I have been persuaded that the mass erect out of terrestrial surface obtains the energy according to the known physical effect "charge flux", which was discovered by the English physicist Michael Faraday in the year 1824. It is indifferent if it is menhir, dolmen, cromlech, clay mound, zikkurat, pyramid, obelisk, pole, tower, or similar constructions. All of them obtain the energy out of energy raster by means of physical effect charge flux. But the energy raster is not only the one source of energy, the further sources can be ore deposits creative in interaction with country rock, local energy overstrain or also crossing of energy zones, even long-distance sources. Some of such places are easy to find, usually a lone megalith or sacral construction there is built.
Watercourses are the big energy sources, especially where the water moves faster. Compared to direct streams major concentration of energy occurs in meanders and in inner bends of stream, which is evoked by the concentrated energy components owing to the bend. Great deal of Hindu temples is situated on sangam, junction of two rivers, what is the especially energy place. The historical construction placed in the bend of river is usually situated on its inner side.
The mass of construction can obtain the energy together from more sources. If it had not been the locality of mineral at the place of construction, it was replaced by metals or minerals installed into the construction. In zikkurats it had been the gold statue of godhood, in pyramids metal in their tip, in antique and other sanctuaries golden statues etc. If the watercourse had not offered enough energy, the builders of cloisters installed to the construction conduits in which the traversed water had completed the missing energy.
The accumulated energy generates in the mass of construction the separated source and its energy components imitates the shape of the construction. In some its parts, by various formation of the mass, the energy voltage of construction can be more increased. Circular plots, arcs, copes and cupolas function at the identical principle like the bend of a watercourse on the inner side of the concentrated zone they create the major overstrain. Already the master builders of the prehistoric sanctuaries on the island Malta exploited the energy effect of rounded formation of the mass the plot of sanctuary and its inner space were rounded.
Circular constructions from mere ditches up to Stonehenge are plurality. If the energy place had the sufficient overstrain, it was adequate to demarcate the energy place by a ditch. If it were needed to complete the energy of the place, the builders piled up to its energy place a mass, whose shapes have enabled the energy regulation. The circular plots just as the bends of watercourses have major density of zones and thereby they create larger concentration of energy compared to quadrate and rectangular plots. On antique, medieval even later sacral constructions are perceptible the exploitation of energy sources like the exposure to energy place, the quantity of tips, also rounded shapes of structural constructions.
The important qualitative sign in energy of constructions is the combination of minerals. A quantity of publications have mentioned that the part of minerals for historical construction was transported from a sizable distance, although another mineral was at the place of construction in sufficient number. At the www.volny.cz/mprovod I have published several graphs of various masses and their combinations, where have been evident position of their energy zones and interzones. I have denominated them "bar code of mass". The like graphs for various masses and their possible combinations I have created in the course of my research the great quantity and I have obtained the piece of knowledge that in all cases their bar codes have contrasted. Next I have not dealt with it. To obtain needed information in this way is troublesome, don't go only about kinds of masses, but even about their proportions of their hefts. The number of combinations gradates that way to astronomic numbers.
Not all civilization could have afforded to build zikkurats or pyramids, some cultures had to suffice with menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs or clay mounds. All constructions had functioned on uniform substances the constructions with larger dimension of mass offered the larger power gain. From building the plurality of these constructions, follow further questions. Probably somewhere in antiquity had remained the mystery how the people had communicated between continents, what kind of method they had overruled the lingual barrier and who had all of that coordinated. The problem also remains down by which technology the people had transferred monoliths of hundred metric tones over natural obstacles at large distances or how they had used the energy of large constructions.
The creation of the large constructions had never stopped. It had passed through antiquity and Middle Ages until our era. It is unbelievable that the stately natural energy had remained hidden to attention of science, though it is found throughout around us and all organisms make use of it. We refuse perhaps wrongfully contemplation that long past cultures could have been in something more perfect.
We will understand it better when we will return 6000 years back to Sumeria, where suddenly advanced civilization had discovered, practically comparable with the civilization of antiquity. Since its evolution is not written down, Sumerians had to take a leaf out of somebody ´s book. I cannot speculate about from whom the information to Sumerians had been transferred, but I suppose that in this part of story people had made use of, to us, unknown energy. Zikkurats marked by all characteristic signs for the accumulation of cosmic energy suggest to it. It is repeated at pyramids, megaliths and in some further constructions.
If it seems to someone unbelievable, I recommend to repeat the experiment, which I have mentioned on www.volny.cz/mprovod . The test has argued that by means of energy raster, the rod and Morse code messages can be sent and received. Though the substance of cosmic energy is not yet known, the symbiosis of two imaginary conceptions the rod and the energy raster have made of them in the course of communication experiment two factors, which can be impeached no more.
November 2004
Miroslav Provod
Zaluzany
Czech Republic
email: centrum11@volny.cz
One of the many mysteries of Egyptian pyramids is their situation to the distance about 1500 meters from reservoir borderline of river Nile. Thereof ensue the questions why the builders had not recommend the place for building more closely to watercourse, the transport of stone ashlars would have been simplified, and why the distance makes just 1500 meters? The answer to the both questions the science has not cognizance, it can be found in the energy of mass and reads: "The pyramidal complexes were not only the ritual buildings but also the energetic. The builders respected the regulation of energy components and the bends of watercourses for passing the energy to mineral".
I understand that in this one sentence are too much unknown and impalpable information, therefore I will try to reply the other way. At the end of year 2004 the whole world observed the undersea quake at South-East Asia and destructive power of water waves tsunami. During the valuation of results the natural disaster we were informed that in the afflicted areas did not perish not even one animal. The domesticated elephants, several tens minutes before the coming of destructive water waves ,were anxious and took to flight towards the inland. Science does not know how animals had obtained in considerable pre-cognition the information about the danger, while people did not know even foreboding about it.
Also in this case the answer is situated outside human knowledge and it reads: "There were energy zones of gigantic water mass, which covered the area in the only flash and moved by the speed of water weaves in their set". From preventive reactions of animals follows that probably they have in their bodies receptors responsive to energy components. Evidently that showed like painful massage in short intervals. The uneasy feeling coursed in their bodies under the movement of water-waves and it themselves orientated to the way of escape. I was inspired to this consideration by the event of a man whose receptors, after a poisoning of lead, had stopped to react to warm and reacted only to energy components. The details are named at www.volny.cz/mprovod I suppose that in unknown receptors of animal bodies can be hidden answers even for other mysteries of nature, such as the orientation at long-distance transfers of birds or congers, the lost orientation of whales etc.
The selection of building site for complexes of mastabas had been executed by the same way like for pyramidal complexes. The distance between the barrier and the mastaba is also 1500 meters and creates a parallel to pyramidal complex (the valley temple, the rising way, the pyramid). The barriers constructed from desiccated bricks, in some cases up to eleven meters high, were not substantiated from the standpoint for their exploitation till this time. The barrier situated to energy space of the River Nile magnifies in its mass the energy value. By the crossing of energy zones in rectangular plot inside the building is evoked another heaping of energy. The niches on barriers, which are denoted like decorative elements, have also energy function. They enlarge their surface and thereby are protracted and positively shape the energy zones. Temples and barriers in valley had functioned like all sacral constructions they supported to their visitors the physical energy. With resembling constructions in much later era we can encounter by Celts, who replaced peripheral masonry with clay mounds.
The energy zone 1,500 meters far from River Nile, in which mastabas and pyramids were situated, remains the mystery. I estimate that the resembling zones from the pyramid to the River Nile are more. The zones are together energy attractive and thereby originate the consideration of many contingencies. From energy charting of area between the pyramid and the river could follow on a hint, but this is but the business for an exclusive stuff of specialists.
Among special spheres every new idea about the unknown energy in connection with long past cultures calls up questions and an idea that the new energy could discover only technically advanced civilization. The fugitive herd of elephants in the face of aggressive zones of natural disaster however has argued that the cosmic energy can be exploited also without the understanding a civilization of twentieth century. There are only unknown natural laws and reactions of unknown receptors, which can be found empirically.
I suppose that in history people used to identify energy components with the sensitiveness of individuals, who felt with their receptors the quantity of energy in the same way like animals. For this purpose the dowsing rod cannot be used, it designates reliably the place, where the energy components are situated, but doesn't react to the quantity of energy. Past unavailing effort to find a measuring instrument for energy components, I have reached the opinion that it could follow on successful research of receptors.
January 2005
Miroslav Provod
Zaluzany
Czech republic
www.volny.cz/mprovod
By Miroslav Provod
Zahi Hawass in his book "Pyramids" has quoted: "Some tombs are deep-etched and covered by rectangular stone piles in the size of some loading wagons or small houses and are separated by open shafts. The ashlars of rock with the weight 400 tons installed to Egyptian constructions are not sporadic. At megalithic constructions we can see also many dressed stones with the weight of several tons. I do not describe anything unaccustomed, I only try to evoke the attention for following consideration.
"The stones with large weight were transported
by hauling ropes and by human strength".I don´t doubt
that they have doubted about it but any reasons they have had
to find. It would be incredible if they had authored: "Our
technical knowledge have not enabled to determine the technological
means, by which people had set in motion the gigantic weights
long ago. We can only state that not even our present technology
can manage it over untidy ground across natural obstacles".Nobody
would believe it and more exacting questions would be posed in
addition such as: "Can be the man of stone age at higher
technical level than the civilization of our century?" Nothing
of the sort has become, the technical public have been satisfied
by hauling ropes with human force and in numberless publications
has envisaged like a factor. If anybody would not assent to the
hauling ropes he would have to suggest another answer and it
is not easy.
By my opinion it does not concern only a technological process
at the transportation of excessive freights. "The hauling
ropes" had made a blockade for a next research and took
away the attention from other questions. The majority of publications
with this theme keep mainly a descriptive character, but numberless
different considerations have implied that the exact purpose
and the function of ancient constructions have not been motivated
till this time. I have concluded that the answers for obscurities
of ancient constructions will ensue from the correct valuation
of the transport of stones. It is not easy to conclude thereto,
the solving is situated out of the sphere of the known realities.
At the pages www.volny.cz/mprovod I have described
the process of empirical research from which have followed till
this time unknown characteristics of rocks, too. If we put them
to the context with something, which we have to find besides,
we could be a success. I suppose that something substantial is
hidden in the gravitation. The known places with unknown characters
imply to it.
In Vortex of Oregon has been situated a circle which is about
fifty meters in average and inside have developed anomalies,
which our present knowledge don't enable to motivate. Tourists
are amazed that if a glass is placed at a slant surface it will
start to roll upwards. The further attraction is a ball hefting
fifteen kilograms hanging on a chain. The visitors can it see
pendent "ex angle", whereby the laws of gravitation
are disclaimed. The ball is namely swaying so, that it only draws
near to the middle of the circle. To this direction can be the
ball pushed forward quite easy, much more difficult is to bend
it out the edge of circle.
A resembling anomaly is situated in Italy around the summer seat of pope by the village Rocca di Papa. There the law of gravitation does not function around hundred meters of local communication. People stop the cars there and leave to roll drink bottles and cans to the hill. The local youth ride on bicycles uphill without treading on pedals. It is easy to make sure how a car with disconnected motor moves out slowly up the hill. The nuclear physicist Luciano Gelmi poured out water to the asphalt and with amazement watched how it flows up around the road. The resembling places are found in Japan, Poland, Germany and Scotland, too.
The mentioned anomalies imply the direction of research, which can give an answer to the question by which technology the people of antiquity had pursued the transport of rocks. The localities whereon these anomalies occur I can designate like places, where the concentration of energy components happen. I have mentioned on my websites, the energy zones have qualitative worth by various sources and those cannot be identified by empiricism. It would be good if institutions with furnished laboratories reassume my researches.
February 2005
Miroslav Provod
Zaluzany
Czech republic
www.volny.cz/mprovod
By Miroslav Provod
The oldest sacred building is probably the ritual area of Nabta Plaja (100 kilometers west from Abú Simbilu), constructed in the Sahara wilderness about 2000 years before the first pyramid was built. The religious center consisted of eight great barrows, thirty stone cromlechs built above deep delves and three series of menhirs oriented out of one point. Archeologists have mentioned that this ritual center of mysterious buildings was built for annual celebrations of coming of the solstice and life giving rains. It has been very much an over simplified and incorrect explanation, but we may not be surprised, for an absence of information cannot be answered differently.
For the mentioned building it is impossible
to give reasons with one sentence. In the following text I will
try to do it and beginning by the question: "Can the identical
area be reared anywhere at other place?" It can be answered
that it is possible, but the area will not be functional. The
basic condition for it is building at "an exquisite place".
Where such places are situated is not known generally, but they
can be found on the plateau of Nazca (in South America?). There
the builders of uncanny constructions visualized over large surface
zones of cosmic energy raster that is situated throughout the
Earth. The choice places are those energy zones that can transfer
their energy to another mass, inclusive to organisms. Zones produce
natural sources like sea streams, other watercourses, such as
water wells, mineral deposits, forest complexes, squally clouds,
etc.
A mineral placed in a zone receives from it the energy. The mineral
has turned into a menhir and if we place it out of zone, after
a few hours it will lose the assumed energy. This is fundamental
information without which the ritual area of Nabta Plaja cannot
be evaluated. Details have been quoted at www.miroslavprovod.com
Eight large pyramids on the building site accumulated the cosmic energy like the mass of zikkurats, pyramids, mounds, mosques, cathedrals and further resembling buildings. Major density of zones inside constructions, especially circular ones, operate like energy magnifiers. Walls of earthy hollows generate the same effect. Energetic capacity of choice places can be piled up not only by another mass, but also by shaping. Obelisks, poles, menhirs, steeples, and other tall constructions obtain the energy partly by charge flux and also thereby from constructions which intersect three-dimensional zonal raster. The cromlech of sand blocks, built above a hollow, as well as menhirs, accumulated in their mass the energy and concentrated this energy of sanctuary by the energy of columnar effect. Three series of menhirs were built for an interception and an induction of further energy to choice locality. In later times so functioned the rising ways of pyramidal complexes or artificial watercourses below plateau Nazca on the identical principle.
From the standpoint of my research - the subjects of the religious center at Nabta Plaja have the energetic quality identical to other sacred buildings built in later times. The oldest religious center in Nabta Plaja can be thus evaluated, being that it was constructed at the place with energy overstrain. Thus by the piling and shaping of mass was enlarged its energy capacity, having positive effect for the visitors of sanctuary.
The unusual evaluation of the technical level of long past cultures does not sit conformably with known facts, but it is necessary to respect, that the transitions of energy can be proved by experiments. Lots of people have supposed that unknown technically advanced civilization anteceded later old cultures. Scientists have responded to it so, that till this time not a single article had been found to prove it. Plurality of megalithic constructions, for which has not been found their purpose, can be regarded as testimony, too.
March 2005
Miroslav Provod
Czech republic
www.miroslavprovod.com
by Elizabeth Hamilton
We had a wonderful conference with Johannes Mathiessen called, 'Healing the Earth and Healing Human Destiny'. Johannes has developed coordinated community projects in many countries for healing and regenerating devastated landscapes by creating sacred gardens. These gardens are all different according to the place and people living there. The idea of creating such gardens is to draw consciousness with more reverence to the Earth we live upon and renew a deeper relationship with our environment. The gardens are not imposed designs but rather have a feeling for the natural flow of the landscape. They are created with sensitivity for what could be received in each place.
This conference inspired us to create such a special sacred garden at Warrah (Warrah Farm/Steiner School, near Sydney, ed).. We were very fortunate to have the skills of Kieran Fraser who has worked with Johannes Mathiessen on various projects. Kieran gave his time freely as a volunteer.
Our garden site is by the school playground among a wonderful grove of Red Gum trees. The garden team worked extremely hard raking, digging, collecting stones, using mattock and tools to prepare the ground. School parents lent a hand and raised funds to buy native flowering plants to line pathways.
A winding path was created among the Gum trees which has been laid in river pebbles generously donated by "Martin's Soil" when they learned about our project. Our original thought was to make a therapeutic labyrinth pathway or a spiral... however, the land had its own movement and Kieran found the simple winding paths which flowed best in that area, uncovering natural steps and lovely rock formations. In the end we had a spiral with a backward winding quality of a labyrinth!
Giant sandstone slabs were then selected from the Glenorie Quarry "Positive Earth Moving" who were kind enough to sell them at a reduced price when they learned about our project. Jim Tunstall, Warrah's gardener, and Paul Attard, Warrah's handyman also helped with the labour efforts and contributed their knowledge and skills. It was quite a feat rolling the heavy stones off our truck! It takes 8 men to lift each stone!
The sandstone slabs were carved by Kieran in special designs he created of the qualities of the four elements. The outer stone, which one faces both as entering and leaving, is carved on both sides. One side depicts a Celtic design comprising all 4 elements interwoven as one.
The stones were set in place with a special community singing ceremony as the stones were raised and received into the Earth.
WARRAH SACRED GARDEN CEREMONY - 30 JUNE 2002
It was a clear, sunny winter's day. The previous icy winds had pacified and the atmosphere in nature was one of expectation.
John Billing, a visiting musician, set the mood as he played the big alto lyre under the trees.
The four standing stones were covered with white cloths with green ribbons looking somewhat like four tall priests in robes dressed for the occasion.
The center stone was carried by a group of strong men and placed in position.
Liz Hamilton then introduced the garden features :
How do we make a place sacred or special? Perhaps by first becoming aware of a place, we feel the quality of it, care for it, respect and connect our heart to it.
Pauline Fitzgerald, Annika Andersdotter and Liz Hamilton spoke a verse for each element by each of the stones.
Air stone
I love the ether,
Divinely free;
where the winds, the clouds,
the eagles wander.
I love the flame,
the gleaming element;
in flashing lightning,
in star-sparkle glitter.
Water Earth
Water stone
I love the wave,
endlessly welling,
yearningly swelling,
from land to land.
I love the Earth,
the Sacred green,
Gladly to wander in,
Sweeter to rest.
Kieran ceremoniously removed the stones' white robes which was a releasing of his work into our care.
Then the children walked the pathway to offer a stone into the center.
We then asked the question:
"If the Earth will accept these stones placed here and receive our garden?"
Everyone was invited to place their hands on each stone. We each offered our own tone, high or low, and together we tried to find a harmonic sound. For it is in the harmony of human activity that can give healing to the earth.
We were silent and listened to feel if the Earth resounded back.
I personally felt a powerful vibration coming up through my feet and resonating through my whole body.
Then we finished with a community singing of "Dona Nobis Pacem" (Give us Peace)
Experiencing the garden
This garden has a winding path which spirals inwards and then backwinds to change direction. This change of direction brings awareness as one meets another step to shift up a level when walking into the center. And as you walk this pathway you become aware of finding your own center and meet the natural center stone shaped like a flame.
The path is not easy to walk with big pebbles and steps and you become aware of your feet and need to balance... and suddenly you become aware of walking on the Earth. The pebbles crunch, the stones resound back the quality of how you are walking...you hear if you are too fast, or too rough, or walking gently or strongly.... It resounds back how you are walking upon this earth.
And as you walk, you meet these standing stones. They face you like Beings, great presences, and are carved with designs for you to be aware and remember the elements:
The flowing Water that gives us life:
The Air we breathe and speak that swirls and rolls in endless motion:
The Fire that gives us warmth and our inner individual spark:
And the Earth design that depicts the breathing motion from heaven,through this heart space, deep down to the Earth core. It moves up and down in vortex motion silently perceiving. The heart space arises between heaven and earth looks like a sort of eye. The stones and crystals are really the eyes of the Earth and relate back up to the cosmos:
Finally, there is this wonderful Celtic design that interweaves all the 4 elements as one.
The standing stones not only give artistic beauty, but bring consciousness to one's uprightness as one travels along the garden path and meets these stones as silent presences reminding us to be thankful for what each element gives us. In the centre is a natural stone shaped like a flame.
We hope our Warrah Sacred Garden will be a peaceful place to bring inner refreshment as well as beauty for the whole community.
This has been quite an inspiring and positive project!
© Elizabeth Hamilton
(This article was first published
on the Warrah farm website.)
and a geomancer's perspective is heard in court...
by Alanna Moore
Lalgambook / Mount Franklin is a classic ex-volcano, a fine example of a breached scoria cone. It lies some 10kms north of Daylesford, just off the Midland Highway in central Victoria, and is a sacred mountain for the local Jaara Jaara people and popular picnic and camp site for all. With great presence it has overlooked the area of Franklinford, the first Aboriginal Protectorate in Australia, as the dominant feature in a landscape of great historical and cultural significance. It's image is emblazened on millions of bottles of water sold under its name.
And so the proposal to erect a 37m high mobile phone tower on top of Lalgambook's summit (crater rim) has been vigorously opposed by local people, such as myself, rejected by the Hepburn Shire Council and gone to be thrashed out in a recent VCAT (Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal) appeal.
The following article is based of my own submission to the Tribunal, which is probably the first white geomancer's perspective on record, and, I hope, not the last!
Personal impacts
I am very sensitive to environmental
energy impacts, but I do own a mobile phone, which is usually
not kept switched on and only used a little when I travel. So
I'm not a Luddite, but I do think that sacred places are not
the place to put mobile phone towers and associated infrastructure.
There is already a small Optus mobile phone tower on top of Mt Franklin. As it is deemed to be so-called 'low impact', the community was not consulted about its 2004 erection at all. To ascertain energetic impacts from this tower, I went with a friend to check it out.
As we wandered around the traditional lookout area, where the small tower is, we both felt repulsed by the electro-magnetic radiation (E-M-R) from it, especially when we reached the car park at the top. We experienced nasty sensations in the head, and these persisted for several hours afterwards in the case of my friend, who is more sensitive than I. She felt nauseous and was in a bad mood, which was unusual for her. She never wants to return to the summit, if the Optus tower stays there and another goes up.
Dowsers and energy reception
As a dowser I have developed my natural
ability to sense energies and so such an experience for me is
common. That's why I live in the country, away from much of the
high-tech world. The theory of human energy reception in relation
to dowsing helps to explain why people experience the energies
of phone tower radiation in varying degrees.
Dowsing is an ancient art, also known as water divining. Today there are some useful modern scientific explanations for the ability to find water and other things by dowsing. Professor Zaboj Harvalik, for instance, who has been a physicist in America and adviser to the US army, was fascinated by dowsing and determined to understand its nature.
In the 1960's Harvalik devised an experiment where, at random intervals, differing levels of electric current were passed through the ground. After hundreds of hours of testing his friends and colleagues, he determined that 80% of his subjects could dowse the live current down to just above 2 milliamperes strength. A smaller group could detect current down to half a milliampere.
In 1968 Harvalik presented his findings at a lecture to other scientists and described human beings as "living magnetometers of incredible sensitivity... Magnetometric measurements indicate that a dowser reacts to magnetic gradient changes as weak as one millimicrogauss or, expressed another way, 0.00000001 gauss." Such weak magnetic anomalies can be found everywhere in the Earth's magnetic field caused by rocks, fault lines, cavities, tree roots, and, of course underground water streams, anomalies which water diviners seek out.
The magnetic sense, Harvalik found, was as variable as any other of the senses across the population. Amazingly a German master dowser Wilhelm de Boer during repeated tests was able to unfailingly sense a magnetic field produced by a current in the ground of only one microampere (one thousandth of 1 milliampere) de Boer was far more sensitive than the magnetometer that Harvalik had been using. (1)
Then around 1980, the mechanism of magnetic reception in people and animals became even clearer, with the discovery of receptors in the form of microscopic magnetite clusters at the base of the beak of pigeons, and later found across the animal kingdom. It helped to explain the extraordinary ability for homing and migration in animals. Since mobile phones have become popular the number of homing pigeons that don't make it home has skyrocketed due to the proliferation of other confusing E-M-R signals, no doubt and pigeon clubs are in rapid decline. (ABC TV documentary 2004)
In people the ridges of the brow have the greatest concentration of the body's E-M-R receptors, which are also found down the spine and in muscles to a lesser extent. People who take up dowsing develop their inherent E-M sensitivity, just as a singer might hone their voice or an athlete train. I have been able to train people to develop their dowsing sense from almost nothing to a high level of sensitivity in a morning or a day.
E-M-R Effects from Phone Towers
Knowing that we are all naturally
sensitive to E-M-R (babies and children being especially vulnerable),
it is not at all surprising to find out that people feel uncomfortable
around mobile phone towers, especially when antennas are pointing
at them. The results of the first few scientific studies into
effects of exposure to them have recently been reported.
A study by Dr Roger Santini of a town in Spain with 900 GSM and 1800 GSM transmitter antennas - for mobile phones- has found a higher than average incidence of symptoms known collectively as 'MICROWAVE SICKNESS' in people living up to 300m away. These include fatigue, irritability, headaches, nausea, appetite loss, sleeping disorders, depression, feeling of discomfort, difficulty in concentrating, memory loss, visual disorders, dizziness and cardiovascular problems. The study found these unpleasant symptoms are occurring at levels a thousand times lower than the Australian standard, which supposedly protects us. (2)
Many other studies have shown evidence of radiation producing non-heating (athermal) effects on the body, and unpleasant symptoms reported to occur at levels many times lower than the Australian Standard. It's not surprising that politician Lindsay Tanner, shadow Federal spokesman on telecommunications, has described the problem of E-M-R as "the future asbestos".
Dead End Future for Tourism There?
While it might be argued that these
symptoms may not be classified as health threatening (although
I'd say by World Health Organisation definitions they probably
would) they certainly could act as a potent repellent to tourists,
who may want to cast their eyes across some of the magnificent
scenery to be had at the summit of Mt Franklin.
When the pine trees around the crater's rim are harvested, which will happen within a couple of years we've been told, currently obscured views will be opened up and the tourist potential will be greatly magnified. Over 20 ex-volcanoes could potentially be viewed from up there. Tourism is the biggest industry for the region.
But if phone tower radiation beams down at the lookout or into the crater below it could be a real turn-off for tourists there, as well as for the locals who picnic and even get married there, and the hundreds of people who attend the annual Beltain festival.
Earth energies
I am a professional geomancer and
I am familiar with assessing subtle environmental energies. The
geomancer's art is ancient and universal and is also a living
tradition. Aboriginal people have been great exponents. Geomancy
is about tuning in to and understanding the subtle energies of
the Earth, finding healthy places to live and interacting with
power centres in the landscape which Mt Franklin is.
I like to take geomancy students to the mountain, where they are blown away by the amazing energies of place. (3) I'm aware of it's highly sacred, geomythic nature, that it was once used as initiation and corroborree ground for the Jaara Jaara people; and how it fits in energetically to the whole region, as an important point in a network of subtle energy connections (sometimes called ley lines) across the landscape.
I may have to take students elsewhere if the Tower goes up, and other sensitive visitors may also choose another destination. My own personal experiences of unpleasant sensations means that I will always avoid having to get close to them. I have heard of people who, being actually allergic to E-M-R, have had to make long detours to get around them when travelling. (Allergy to E-M-R can result from over-exposure to it.)
Phone towers in such a location generate disturbance to existing natural energies and spirits of place, have disturbing effects on visitors, while desecrating that which is sacred to Aboriginal (and other) people. And cultural genocide is supposed to be a thing of the past.
4 days at VCAT
During April 2005 a handful of opponents waged the moral battle
against future acts of desecration at Mt Franklin a David
vs Goliath scenario where no-one has (apparently) yet won a case
against a phone tower on heritage grounds. We urged Telstra to
seek out alternative locations. Three would be required to replace
the one proposed for Mt Franklin, they reckoned.
During the proceedings, traditional Jaara Jaara owner Ricky Nelson explained the mountain's Dreamtime significance as the nest of the Emu, a Dreamtime spirit who lives in the sky next to the Southern Cross (an area also known as the Dark Coal Bag). There is a Jaara story of how Lalgambook had a fight with nearby Mt Tarrengower and threw rocks at it a memory of eruptions from some 5-7000 years ago!
Ricky is totally opposed to the Tower, as are the rest of the Jaara people he has consulted with. Telstra, however, believe that leaving telephone messages for Aboriginal people that did not include traditional owners constituted 'consultation'. Telstra did get to talk, and several times, but to the wrong Aboriginal people, who duly gave the thumbs up to a 'consent-to-disturb' the site for the tower.
There was a quietly powerful moment when Ricky displayed a handful of seemingly insignificant pebbles, which were actually Aboriginal artifacts found only by the trained eye and the like of which could possiby be found at Lalgambook, if a proper study was made there.
Later (on a day they weren't attending) the Jaara people were maligned by Wren, Telstra's solicitor, as merely being part of an unproven native title claimants group, despite wide recognition in the community of their family connection to the area.
Telstra submitted the most minimal and inadequate of impacts studies, which patently ignored the cultural heritage. According to what was presented, it would be ok in their eyes to put a tower on top of Uluru or the Opera House, I put to them. And my suggestion that their continuing push for the tower was an act of hostility to the Jaara Jaara was drowned out by Wren's protests, thus seemingly proving my point.
Mt Franklin, like many other special places, is not properly protected by enough planning instruments, which would give more official recognition of its highly sacred nature if/when all are in place.
At one point we were given a valuable tip: that the 'low-impact' Optus Tower was not exempt from permit conditions of community consultation etc - as it is within a defined heritage zone.
Once a tower goes up there is nothing to stop
other carriers from co-locating their towers on and around it.
The flood gates are opened. So we may have to give that Tower
the boot too.
The addition of a tall Telstra tower beside it is even more untenable.
Should it go ahead it probably would end up like all the other
desecrated mountain tops, like some evil Medusa sprouting more
and more ugly heads. Sometimes thinly disguised as plastic trees.
"So what species of tower tree would we be expecting on
Mt Franklin?" Hepburn Council's solicitor, Telstro, asked
tongue in cheek.
One with very bitter fruit, I imagine. The meaning of the name Lalgambook reflects the shape of the breached crater it means 'split head, headache'. Lets hope that Telstra decides that the pain of the headache we are giving them is not worth the envisaged improvement to the mobile phone network (so people can phone while driving down the Midland Highway mainly) or the competitive edge they might gain.
The outcome from the VCAT proceedings is eagerly awaited.
(1) Christopher Bird, 'Divining' MacDonald & Jane's, UK, 1979, pg 257.
(2) 'EMR Focus', Oct-Dec 2004, Sydney. www.emraustralia.com.au
(3) The next event there an 'Earth Spirit Pilgrimage' to a number of geomantic hotspots in the region, led by the author, is planned for Sunday October 9th. Details at Events page and in the 'What's On' of this issue of Geomantica.
June 17th, 2005
After four days in VCAT court in Melbourne and 8 weeks deliberation over a verdict, on June 9th VCAT handed down its decision to uphold the shire council ban on a mobile phone tower from being erected on the summit of Mt Franklin, the 'Uluru' of central Victoria.
The Court agreed that the cultural heritage and landscape values of this iconic ex-volcano were of a higher value than any gain in mobile phone coverage. Telstra had not done their homework. Local opponents, including Jaara Aboriginal custodians, are jubilant, and are now seeking to gain greater protection for the mountain with a National Estate heritage listing.
It is believed to be the first time that a mobile phone tower has been stopped on heritage grounds.
The 16 page report of the verdict is available on the VCAT (Victorian Civil and Administration Tribunal) website.
by Alanna Moore, Python Press Australia, 2nd edition September 2004
Divining Earth Spirit
Reviewed by Don McLeod for the Pagan Alliance, S.A.
Australian author Alanna Moore's revised and updated edition of Divining Earth Spirit is crammed full of interesting chapters on Geomancy (Earth energies) and environmental awareness. It is the most comprehensive reference book of its kind. The author has been involved in dowsing for more than twenty years, and she is an acknowledged expert in this specialised field of research.
The book begins with Earth studies from eastern and western cultural views: Feng Shui, stone circles, labyrinths, and scientific studies on crop circles are all explained from the Geomancer's perspective.
Following this are chapters on Australian geomancy, and not surprisingly, the Earth centred spirituality of the indigenous inhabitants is a major focal point of this section. The Dreaming stories of the Flinders Ranges are discussed, and the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy gets a mention. Also included is a chapter on the Earth energies in Yankalilla, SA. It turns out that the Anglican church in that town (yes, the one with the salt damp that looks like some well known religious figures) was built over a desecrated Aboriginal sacred site!
Geopathic stress is the main concern of another section. This is about underground streams and their effect on health and mental alertness. The paragraphs on the dowsing of 'black spots' on roads was particularly interesting, with dowsers installing neutralisation devices in problem areas and finding that accident rates were cut 'from 32 over two years, to just one accident in one year.'
Other chapters in this book help you to discover the Devic dimensions (nature spirits). There's a great chapter on the Green Man, a symbol that is featured on many medieval churches, representing our connection with nature. The Greek god Pan also has a chapter devoted to him, and Alanna spends some time describing dowsing for Pan in various locations all over the world, and she relates the 'electrifying experience' of meeting him during meditations.
Many famous geomancers were interviewed for Divining Earth Spirit, and they told of their specific fields of interest and gave interesting case histories. They explained their methods of interaction with the environment, ranging from sites at Glastonbury Tor to Alice Springs.
My only gripe about the book is the amount of space given to the 'visions' received by various clairvoyants in and around sacred sites. Most are unsubstantiated by experiences from anybody else. Does anybody really want to know about the lady who camped in a stone circle and saw a ten foot high elf called Asulan, who promised to help her look for her lost dog? I certainly don't!
With a healthy respect for pagan traditions, and an awareness of deity and sacred space, Alanna Moore's Divining Earth Spirit is an insight to a different method of reverence and appreciation for the Earth Mother. Alanna says that the reason she wrote this book is to 'take you on a journey through doors of perception which are both ancient and new to many. I want you to hear the voices of many in relation to Earth energy awareness and healing. And I'd like you to consider that we all have the potential to be able to divine Earth spirit, and that it is high time that its significance be acknowledged and nurtured.' Her book fulfils all of this and more!
This is a valuable reference book for anyone with an interest in sacred sites and the world's subtle energy fields. And it has opened my eyes to the variety of Earth energies that one can explore through geomancy thank you Alanna!
particular matrix of history and culture. The equivalent of e.m. in other
parts of the world takes other forms more specific to local circumstances.
geomancy, and includes material that aims to build a bridge between the
pragmatic Australian approach and more traditional European perspectives. An
interesting selection of topics, including an interview with the NE editor
(!), but really could have done with better proofreading.
Reviewed by Alanna Moore (for New Dawn magazine)
Enigmatic megalithic standing stones and stone circles of Europe have long raised the question - what prompted our ancestors to enact awesome feats of engineering to erect them?
It was over 100 years ago when eminent astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer discovered astronomical orientations in the ancient temples of Egypt and stone circles of his native Britain. This idea shook the belief foundations of the time, for the megalith builders of several thousand years ago were then considered as 'savages'. Lockyers findings were confirmed in even greater detail by Gerald Hawkins in the 1960's and Alexander Thom's after that.
Megalithic structures, such as Stonehenge, it turned out, were able to be used as sophisticated observatories, with stones, aligned to prominent landscape features, marking the movements of the sun, moon and other heavenly bodies, and based on Pythagorean geometry (yet created one thousand years before Pythagoras). They could even predict eclipses and the 18.61 year lunar cycle. The megalithic structures were calendars in stone, plotting the times for agricultural activities and ritual events, etc.
In this book, acclaimed Earth mysteries author John Michell traces the development of the modern science of astro-archaeology, of which Lockyer was the first. At first anathema to academia and ignored, this science is now considered self evident.
Even Alfred Watkins discoveries of straight alignments 'ley lines' - between ancient sites, in the 1920's, is nowadays accepted, to some extent, by modern archeologists. (Anyone with a passing interest in the subject talks about ley lines to this day. Unfortunately the term is greatly abused and means different things to different folks. For dowsers, for instance, 'energy leys' often run parallel, and high above, the physical alignments.) Watkins earns a chapter in the book, as well as parallel landscape studies in Germany, where the revelations were useful in the cause of German nationalism. Nazi patronage of astro-archeology there earned the subject more disrepute. Science and politics still often make unfortunate bed fellows.
South American alignments also get a look in and the book is richly illustrated with black and white graphics. Recommended reading.