London's Ley Lines Pathways of Enlightenment

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I feel like a lot is missing and while reading the book I couldn't find anything with gravitas in the book. You could say simple blessings at each sacred site along the way, or do a meditation to visualise the energy of the earth and the universe flowing through the world, and through yourself, via the great network of ley lines.

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. Some recent stories I am most proud of are this report on the killing of a restaurant owner in Elephant and Castle, this weird situation a Kings College student found herself in, and my review of eating a pigs ear salad in Bloomsbury.My friend Jan sends me texts about sacred London, pointing out that London's ceremonial sites, of which there are a great number, may have formed a vast geometric design covering over 400 square miles. Throughout the tour you will learn about the sacred ley lines running under the city and how they have shaped it’s story. The connection - or rather jump - is then made to a Grail Castle built on a confluence of ley lines. And with each twist and turn, it became ever more firmly enmeshed in a thicket of mysticism, neo-paganism and plain superstition. In the mid-1970s, Michell then published a detailed case study of the West Penwith district of Cornwall, laying out what he believed to be the ley lines in the area.

I was motivated by the controversy of alignments across the Hawksmoor churches and this book doesn't add anything other that the authors own obsession with drawing wide marks on small scale maps and producing connections, the same principle can apply to proving ancient connections between telephone boxes, curry houses and more! Let’s change the emotional climate of the capital and make it a better place to live, and an uplifting centre of healing and light. Chris Street's book is also a practical guide for those wanting to walk these leys and explore the sites along them. In a similar way, I believe there are trees in North America that were bent over at 90 degrees at about head height as saplings, so that they would grow that way and serve as pointers for indigenous people in the past. His critics noted that his ideas relied on drawing lines between sites established at different periods of the past.I can believe cities have an energy that is affected by large landmarks and the activities of man, but I doubt there is any diabolic architect or evil town planner deliberately cultivating malignant dragon currents for some nefarious scheme. One criticism of Watkins' ley line theory states that given the high density of historic and prehistoric sites in Britain and other parts of Europe, finding straight lines that "connect" sites is trivial and ascribable to coincidence. 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. Hutton noted that it represented "the finest piece of surveying work" then undertaken by a pseudo-archaeologists in Britain; [28] however, Michell had included natural rock outcrops as well as medieval crosses in his list of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments. In 1989, a book that Devereux had co-written with Nigel Pennick, Lines on the Landscape, was published.

There are suggestions for good times of year to walk each ley, as some seem to line up closely with the solstices or equinoxes. Tan jones eschewed the laboriously intricate mappings of earlier ley line-hunters, and instead followed their instinct.

Hutton suggested that some of the enthusiasm formerly directed toward leys was instead directed toward archaeo-astronomy. Even before Ley Lines were co-opted by wild eyed hippies in the 1960s, they drew the ire of archaeologists who argued that ancient Britons were too primitive to have made them. Still in print, the book speaks from a more innocent age: blending a love of rural and historic Herefordshire with quotes from WB Yeats and George Borrow, and a charming openness about his own assumptions. I always felt such a powerful energy in general when walking around the city - St Catherine's hill especially was a really great place to go and meditate, and I felt this before I knew of the ley line.

Please bear in mind most items are handmade one-offs or from small editions so we may sell out of certain items at particularly busy periods. It is a theory that has long held interest for tan jones: "I've been interested in ley lines for years," they say.I found out about the Circle of Perpetual Choirs, druids who would always be singing, at a stone circle or old yew tree or a place of strong earth energy, to maintain the peace of the land.