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Ley Lines
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where the ley energy paths intersect are said to be
prone to anomalies such as earth lights, poltergeist
phenomena and reported sightings of UFOs. One theory
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Alignments and
patterns of powerful, invisible earth energy said to connect various sacred sites, such as
churches, temples, stone circles, megaliths, holy wells, burial sites, and other locations
of spiritual or magical importance.
The existence of leys is
controversial. If they do exist, their true age and purpose remain a mystery. Controversy
over them has existed since 1925, when Alfred Watkins, an English beer salesman and
amateur antiquarian, published his research and theory in his book, ' The Old
Straight Track'. Watkins suggested that all holy sites and places of antiquity were connected
by a pattern of lines he called 'leys'. Mounds, barrows, tumuli, stones, stone circles,
crosses, churches built on pagan sites, legendary trees, castles, mottes and baileys,
moats, hillforts, earthworks and holy wells were all thought to stand in alignment. Using
the Ordnance Survey, Watkins claimed that the leys were the 'old straight tracks', which
crossed the landscape of prehistoric Britain and represented all types of early human
activities.
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After Watkins's theory was
published, public fascination with leys remained high until the 1940s, when it began to
decline. Interest revived in the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the New Age movement. While Britain has been the
chief site of investigation, there also is interest in France, the United States, Peru and
Bolivia. Many archaeologists and other scientists dispute the existence of leys and say
the theory originated by Watkins was contrived because Watkins aligned secular and sacred
sites from different periods of history. Even ley enthusiasts are divided into differing
camps. Some hold that the prehistoric alignments can be statistically validated. Others
agree but say that alignments continued in historical periods. Still others contend that
leys mark paths of some sort of earth energy that can be detected by dowsing, and perhaps was sensed by early
humans. The energy is compared to the flow of ch'i, the universal life force identified in
ancient Chinese philosophy.
Points where the ley
energy paths intersect are said to be prone to anomalies such as earth lights and poltergeist phenomena and reported
sightings of UFOs (one theory suggests that
the paths are navigational aids to extraterrestrial spacecraft). These energy leys,
however, do not necessarily coincide with physical alignments of sites. Despite the
controversy ley researchers hope at least to come to a better understanding of ancient
sacred sites, and of the people who built them. See Geomancy.
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