Hello, ATS.

I wanted to share something with you all that has nagged at me ever since I encountered the work of Mr. Paul Devereux of Britain. Mr. Devereux is the Founding co-editor of Time & Mind - Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, www.bergpublishers.com/timeandmind

Paul Devereux

It was Mr. Devereux’s article on Ley Lines, that I read years ago, that changed my entire thinking on the subject and caused me to seek out more information to try and understand this subject matter.

As far as Mr. Devereux’s credentials concerning Ley Lines goes I will let him speak for himself…

“The subject of leys (or 'ley lines' or 'ley hunting') as we have come to know it is essentially a British one. Both the good and bad aspects can be blamed on the British!

For 20 years I edited the only journal in the world devoted solely to leys, THE LEY HUNTER, and I think I have come to know the subject more intimately and in more detail than anyone else alive.”

For this thread I am using as a source Paul Devereux’s own website and all quotes and probably most of the images will come from,Abridged summary of paper given at the "WEGE DES GEISTES - WEGE DER KRAFT (Ways of Spirit - Ways of Power)" conference in October, 1996, in Germany, which is posted at Mr. Devereux’s website here;

“The first thing I can assure you is that what is talked about in New Age journals, workshops and groups today about 'leylines' is mainly a combination of misunderstanding, old falsehoods, wishful thinking and downright fantasy.

What I am going to tell you now is the true history of ley research. Like most histories, it is essentially a list of dates and names, but unless we understand the growth of the ley idea, we will never understand what leys are, and what it is we are dealing with.”

“For about 7 years in the 1920s, Watkins referred to his alignments as 'leys'. This is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'cleared strips of ground' or 'meadows'. Watkins' theory of leys was that they were old straight traders' tracks laid down by surveyors in the Neolithic period of prehistory.

The tracks ran from hilltop to hilltop, mountain ridge to mountain ridge, like 'a fairy chain' Watkins suggested. They cut through wild country, and in the valleys there was dense forest. Over time, this was cleared along the course of the straight tracks, Watkins maintained, and this was the reason he used the word 'ley' to describe such tracks.

However, by 1929, he had discarded the use of the name 'ley' and referred to his alignments only as 'old straight tracks' or 'archaic tracks'.” “Watkins felt that many of the key sighting points along these old straight tracks evolved into sacred sites, such as standing stones and burial mounds.

He also theorized that in the historic, Christian era, some of the prehistoric, pagan sites became Christianized and this explained why he found so many ancient churches standing on his alignments. It is certainly a fact that many such sites did become Christianized throughout Europe.”

“In 1935, Watkins died. In 1936, the British occultist Dion Fortune wrote a fictional book, a novel, called The Goat-Foot God, in which she put forward the notion of 'lines of force' connecting megalithic sites such as Avebury and Stonehenge in southern England.

In 1938, Arthur Lawton, a member of the Straight Track Club, wrote a paper in which he claimed that leys were lines of cosmic force which could be dowsed. He was a dowser himself, and was impressed with the German geopathological dowsing that was then getting under way, and French dowsing work which claimed that there were lines of force beneath standing stones. Lawton put all this together in his own head and came up with his theory about leys.”

“From 1960 the ley theory took on a new lease of life, one that has led to the modern New Age notion of 'ley lines'. An ex-R.A.F. pilot, Tony Wedd, was very interested in flying saucers, or UFOs. He had read Watkins' The Old Straight Track and also a French book, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery (1958)"

“He had also read an American book by Buck Nelson called My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus (1956) in which Rogers claimed to have flown in UFOs, and to have witnessed them picking up energy from 'magnetic currents' flowing through the Earth."

"In 1961, Wedd published a pamphlet called Skyways and Landmarks in which he theorized that UFO occupants flew along magnetic lines of force which linked ancient sites, and that the ancient sites acted as landmarks for UFO pilots. It all relied very much on the notions and experiences of an old-fashioned terrestrial airplane pilot, rather than intergalactic extra-terrestrial creatures!”

“Wedd formed the Star Fellowship, which aimed to contact the Space Brothers. The members of the club enlisted the aid of a psychic called Mary Long in their ley hunting, and she started referring to 'lines of force' and magnetic nodes in the landscape. She also channeled communications from a Space Being called 'Attalita'. In 1962 a Ley Hunter's Club was set up with Wedd's encouragement, and by 1965 it produced the first few copies of THE LEY HUNTER journal.”

“Very soon, the whole New Age version of the subject became like a corridor of mirrors, with one fantasy piling up on another. To this very day, this false and time-wasting approach to the mystery of the lines is the most publically known version of the subject.

Germany was particularly vulnerable, for it absorbed all the American New Age ideas, including energy 'ley lines', knowing little or nothing about the origin of the ley theory in Britain. In addition, ideas of ley energies fitted in very well with Germany's own history of geopathological dowsing and dowsable energy grids or nets, and the two, completely different subjects became merged together in the New Age melting pot.

Holland in some ways was worse off, because it received its information fairly equally from the New Age in Britain, Germany and the USA, and I have found that it is virtually impossible to talk to anyone in Holland about research- based ley hunting.)”

“Now, today, I find that New Agers are like the old professors: they resist or dismiss the new research we have on old straight tracks and landscape lines around the world.

This is because many of them earn their living from writing New Age books, giving New Age lectures and workshops, and so they feel threatened. Others simply do not want their pet fantasies disturbed. Yet others are not prepared to admit to past mistakes and misunderstandings.

The New Age is no longer new, vibrant and fresh; it has become old and inflexible. In their minds, many New Age people are still living about a quarter of a century ago, not aware of what has been found, discovered and understood in those intervening decades.

Understanding the nature of real straight line markings in archaic landscapes can actually introduce us to a whole hidden history of human consciousness, a remarkable legacy.”

“Feng-shui, the ancient Chinese art of landscape divination, has its ancient roots in ancestor worship and Taoism, which in turn derived from shamanism. One of Feng-shui's basic tenets is that houses and tombs should not be built on straight lines in the landscape. Such features include roads, ridges, river courses, lines of trees, fences and such like.

They all facilitated the passage of troublesome spirits, so if a tomb or building was on the course of such an "arrow" in the land, then preventative measures had to be taken. These included the erection of physical barriers to mask the entrance to the building, placing fearsome "door guardian" effigies either side of the door, or placing a special mirror at the entrance so that any horrible spirits would scare themselves off by their own reflections.

This basic idea of spirits traveling in straight lines is found all around the Pacific Rim, but the association of straight ways across the land with the passage of spirits is even wider. In Laos, for example, the Hmong peoples have a rule that a new house in a village should not be built directly in front or directly behind another house. This is because spirits travel in straight lines, and when corpses are moved from the house for burial they must go straight out of the house.

Similar invisible spirit lines occur throughout Europe, with features like fairy passes in Ireland, which link prehistoric earthworks (and on which one was not supposed to build, similar to Feng-shui ideas), and Geisterwege in Germany, linking medieval cemeteries.”

Actually no it won't.....LOL! But love the updated info.

The book, while semi-technical is called "Wisdom Sit's In Places"

Now....hear me out on this....using just a few of the same examples such as Chaco Canyon, the Ohio earthworks, you're overlooking the connections to the Canadian Serpent Mound, the Earthworks outside of Iona, Ont and many more reaching right up into the Artic. Much less major lines on the east coast.

Like I said, I'm an admirer of his however with some reservations.

If the dead are not far away at all, then where are they and how can they be reached using these Ley lines?

Is this merely superstition or is there some factual evidence that the dead are "close by" ?

Why must the dead be "kept in their places"?

How could the dead become troublesome unless they are still able to communicate with the living?

When one looks at the sheer amount of labor involved in creating these tracks and megalithic sites it is astounding. It must have been very important to someone as we have long thought that the farther back in history we go the less "free time" people had to do such activities aside from what was required for daily survival.

Having run into a dead end for new research and being unable to investigate in person this is one subject that has long piqued my curiosity. Thanks for bringing some new information to our attention.

theres way too many roads, power lines, burried field lines from old septic tank systems all scattered over the place to ever discover what may be a Ley Line...

the world condition has polluted the natural order of Ley Lines and vortex sites.... its like trying to listen to a butterfly while sitting within the earthen, fallow space of a 6 lane clover-leaf ...during rush hour traffic.

May there be a link here to the type of wireless electricity transfer that Mr. Tesla was attempting to perfect?

Everyone has been spoon fed the magnetic fields around Stonehenge. Plenty of folks noticed the rocks were hauled from really far away. By using those specific rocks in that alinement what was missing from the place originally it needed compensated for?

I could just need slapped in the head with a 4x4.