Originally posted by FreebornWhat "powers" were thought to provide the healing?

Well... that depends on which of the cultures we're talking about. This was an oral-tradition culture, so much of what we know about them comes from fairly late (Roman era, 100-500 AD). We can certainly identify medical gear and herbs, but we can't say much about what else might go along with it (we can't hear prayers or see whether it favored people with certain types of illnesses, etc.)

I believe StoneHenge is a healing site!
The arrangement and type of stones allows this site to focus the Earth's energies into the central area.
Look at it as though it were a huge collector/reflector.
Yea I know none of this new age energy stuff can be proven, but that doesn't mean it's not real, The energy is there it can be felt.
Why would ancient men with no technology other than stone and copper tools (no wheels back then) cut and move such huge slabs of stone unless there was a VERY significant energy source there.
I don't discount the astro/calendar theory at all. I believe it was a place of many uses. At that period in time people were too busy growing food and surviving to just throw down their plows and go quarry huge stones for simple reasons such as observing the sun and moon.
This was and still is a place of great power, and people are still coming to StoneHenge after all these years not only for the mysterious "standing stones" but because of a much more ancient drive, a more basic drive, one that modern people might not even feel......yet.
As for the "energy" that comes to a focal point due to the stones we as modern people don't feel this energy as easily as the ancients, due to the constant bombardment of microwaves, cathode rays, electromagnetic fields and radio waves. We as a race have been numbed to this energy thus cutting our ties to the Earth. If you don't believe me about the energy, go camping for two weeks, as far from civilization as you can get. After two weeks the human body begins to re-tune its "sensors" to the Earths natural energy field. Then tell me how you feel and what you can sense.

At the beggining of the 20th century, a scientist know as Thomas Townsend Brown (some say father of electro gravitics, but I still think thats Tesla) conducted experiments into extracting energy (electricity) from rocks using EM fields. He did this up until he died, but who knows whats been discovered. If stone henge is a sight to 'control' or manipulate EM fields, maybe it was used as a healing centre. I agree that there must be a more 'esoteric' use for stonehenge. The positioning of the stones themselves, and the relation they have with each other has always made me think of EM array, but this is all only ideas and conjecture, no solid proof other than rumours and here say...is there ever anything more?

thanks. EMM

Construction on the earthworks at Stonehenge began about 3000BC, current dating, and the stoneworks were completed about 2000BC.

Tha Celtic people's were the dominant race in Britain about 750BC, long after the construction of Stonehenge.

The original architects and builders of Stonehenge were the "Ancient Britons" of which very, very little is known.
There is less known of these people and their culture than almost any other ancient culture.

It is suspected that they may have been pretty similair to The Picts who are sometimes mistaken for a Celtic people.

[edit on 2/4/08 by Freeborn]