The sample distribution from the standing stones was compared with the theoretical distribution to show that the occurrence of straight lines was no more than average. As part of their book, they examined the example of the West Penwith district that Michell had set out as a challenge to archaeologists during the previous decade. However, as most authors know, books can take on a life of their own and the arc of their journeys can shift in unpredictable ways. Notice that it also intersects with both corner stones of the original burial ground and the end ridge is aligned with a standing stone at Dalchirla farm. He also covers the fascinating, and creepy, paths of the dead used for centuries by churches when interring their dead.

The idea of "leys" as paths traversing the British landscape was developed by Alfred Watkins, a wealthy businessman and antiquarian who lived in Hereford. In 1989, a book that Devereux had co-written with Nigel Pennick, Lines on the Landscape, was published. Nowhere has this phenomenon been more thoroughly investigated than in the British Isles where they have become known as Ley Lines. Very comprehensive book, easy to read, full of information, full coverage on all main aspects of the phenomena, best book for a full introduction on the subject who also displays plenty of examples on the subject. One bright afternoon at the end of June 1921, a gleaming roadster — a rakish 1919 Wolseley Stellite, its brass trim glinting in the sharp sunlight — pulled over at Blackwardine Cross in Herefordshire.However, belief in ley lines persists among various esoteric groups, having become an "enduring feature of some brands of esotericism". For six days, tan jones moved through urban and rural landscapes, on the way encountering several holloways – roads or tracks that are significantly lower than the land on either side, and not formed by recent engineering – and The Harrow Way, said to be the oldest road in Britain. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they’re artworks and poems.

It laid aside ideas of leys representing channels for earth energy, noting that this was beyond the realm of scientific verification, and instead focused on trying to build a case for ley lines that archaeologists could engage with. Its 66-year-old driver, who had spent his life exploring every corner of the county as an outrider for the family businesses of flour milling and brewing, had no need for directions, but consulted his map anyway. Born in 1855 into a well-to-do farming family, Watkins was also an amateur archaeologist; it was while out riding in 1921 that he looked out over the landscape and noticed what he later described as a grid of straight lines that stood out like "glowing wires all over the surface of the county", in which churches and standing stones, crossroads and burial mounds, moats and beacon hills, holy wells and old stone crosses, appeared to fall into perfect alignment.Writing students, art students, and any reader engaged in artistic practice will find in Ley Lines not a how-to manual or step-by-step instruction but an inexhaustible vein of instructive reflection on imaginative work and the creative life. From the 1940s through to the 1960s, the archaeological establishment blossomed in Britain due to the formation of various university courses on the subject. The Old Straight Track got a somewhat unexpected kickstart in 1969 with the appearance of hippy guru John Mitchell’s seminal The View Over Atlantis. The author gives an update of the theories behind the straight lines, quoting in detail from a variety of sources. Both these hills appear to have been artificially shaped so that their axes align with each other, and their orientation, 27 degrees North-East can be read off a large Ordnance Survey sheet.

The songlines you must walk if you desire to fulfill your dreams aren’t drawn on the ground or mapped on a piece of paper, they’re tucked inside the epicenter of your heart. A statistical analysis of lines concluded: "the density of archaeological sites in the British landscape is so great that a line drawn through virtually anywhere will 'clip' a number of sites. It is a theory that has long held interest for tan jones: "I've been interested in ley lines for years," they say.

See also Stonehenge Complete , The Holy Kingdom and The Isle of Avalon Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury . He also noted that the ley hunting community had "functioned as an indispensable training ground for a small but important group of non-academic scholars who have made a genuine contribution to the study of folklore and mythology. They also demonstrated that ley hunters had often said that certain markers were Neolithic, and thus roughly contemporary with each other, when often they were of widely different dates, such as being Iron Age or medieval. Whether your interest is simply to walk and enjoy the gloriou s countryside of the region, with its high sweeping skies, or whe ther you enjoy tracing its archaeology and history, this book wil l be both useful and enriching. 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.

Everything radiates energy, even people, and this page is devoted to several months I spent trying to locate a missing woman in a forest near Aberfeldy, Scotland, using a divining rod and a Radionics machine. Intersections acquired local significance, becoming meeting places and markets, then later burial mounds and temples. White lines are waves of “black energy” (here shown in white for clarity) which are attracted into the vortex. Another prominent ley hunter, Bob Trubshaw, also wrote several books on these subjects and served as a publisher for others.

Jeremy Harte, editor of Wessex Earth Mysteries, subsequently produced several books on folklore; his book on British fairy lore later won the Folklore Society's annual prize. The authors, both 'alternative archaeologists', explore the theory of ley lines with the belief that lines and patterns formed by joining up ancient sites prove the existence of a megalithic science based on a mysterious force (oh dear! Remembering [ley lines] exist is a way for us to find stillness and quiet, and to see the earth as animated. 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.