London's Ley Lines Pathways of Enlightenment

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John agrees with Watkins and says the lines show where ancient Brits travelled between important sites, he claims they chopped down trees in a forest covered landscape to be safe from bandits and avoid "being eaten by wolves". The term was originally posited, just three years after the end of World War One, by Alfred Watkins, a councillor in rural Herefordshire in the UK.

Other statistical significance tests have shown that supposed ley-line alignments are no more significant than random occurrences and/or have been generated by selection effects. But does this mean anything more than London being built around the need for farms with water and sunlight? 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. You will see how within a matter of steps you can journey from the mythical Temple Church to the home of famous figures like Sweeney Todd, or sights made famous on the big screen. 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.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. This path of power runs through Hawksmoor's church St Anne Limehouse, which is the site of another pyramid, and The Greenwich Observatory. I feel like a lot is missing and while reading the book I couldn't find anything with gravitas in the book.

Hutton noted that this pulled along "a potential fissure between rationalism and mysticism which had always been inherent in the movement". If you live in London it will give you a useful reference for many of the capital's less well known sacred sites worth visitting. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. He refused to publish an advert for The Old Straight Track in Antiquity, at which Watkins became very bitter towards him. So I decided to walk from the entrance of the Silvertown tunnel… to the monumental stone circle at Stonehenge, and see how I could connect them.Chris Street's book is also a practical guide for those wanting to walk these leys and explore the sites along them. He argued that straight lines could be drawn between various historic structures and that these represented trade routes created by ancient British societies. Belief in ley lines nevertheless remains common among some esoteric religious groups, such as forms of modern Paganism, in both Europe and North America.

This is a walking tour, often on flat land but in some areas accessibility will be uneven and will include steps. 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.

Explaining the fringe beliefs associated with them today, John says: "In the 60s and 70s people were experimenting with drugs. In suggesting that prehistoric Britons were far more advanced in mathematics and astronomy than archaeologists had previously accepted, Thom's work was seen as giving additional credibility to the beliefs of ley hunters. Tracks were set out visually – by lighting beacons on high points, for example – and then lining up markers and key points across the intervening land, including mounds and moats, stone circles and more.