Ley Lines and Sacred Sites: The Earth's Hidden Energy Grid
Draw a line on a map of southern England from the ancient hill fort at Avebury to Glastonbury Tor, and continue it northeast through the church at Bury St. Edmunds, and you pass through a remarkable number of ancient sacred sites. Extend the same line further and it runs through churches, standing stones, and landscape features that ancient peoples — quite independently, across thousands of years — chose to mark, worship at, or build upon. Coincidence? Surveying error? The projection of pattern-hungry human minds onto a random landscape? Or evidence of something that ancient peoples knew and modern civilization has largely forgotten: that the earth itself is not a uniform substrate but a structured energetic field, with veins and nodes, currents and power points — and that our ancestors could feel them? This is the territory of ley lines — one of the most disputed, most researched, and most persistently fascinating ideas in modern esoteric thought. Alfred Watkins and the Old Straig...