London's Ley Lines Pathways of Enlightenment

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Framed prints within 3 days (on limited artwork only – we will contact you if this is not possible). There are many groups from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and cultures engaged in this sort of thing already. Buildings face certain directions because of sun and water, soil and wind, and remain in place for centuries.

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. It is not unlikely that people needed to find ways to mark a track, which is all that ley lines maybe were. In some cases the print you purchased may no longer be available as once an edition is sold out it cannot be reproduced. Explaining the fringe beliefs associated with them today, John says: "In the 60s and 70s people were experimenting with drugs. It wasn't until after the World War Two that the potential of the ley line as a repository for all things mystical really started to take hold.

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. 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. Since then, a theory has developed that ley lines are a power grid for the forces of creation and that is why so many churches and ancient sites of spiritual significance, such as holy wells and megaliths, lie along them. Blame ex-RAF pilot Tony Wedd who, in his leaflet Skyways and Landmarks (1961), suggested that ley lines were laid down by prehistoric societies to connect with alien spacecraft. A photo collage piece featuring people enjoying a dip in a pool at the cross section of ley lines in the desert.

Bel Jacobs explores the history and meaning of ley lines, and talks to the artist they have inspired. The idea of "leys" as straight tracks across the landscape was put forward by the English antiquarian Alfred Watkins in the 1920s, particularly in his book The Old Straight Track. 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.Hutton noted that this pulled along "a potential fissure between rationalism and mysticism which had always been inherent in the movement". Apparently we are short of archaeologists or maybe there would have been more investigation of Camlet Moat. The connection - or rather jump - is then made to a Grail Castle built on a confluence of ley lines. He argued that straight lines could be drawn between various historic structures and that these represented trade routes created by ancient British societies. They also demonstrated that ley hunters had often said that certain markers were Neolithic, and thus roughly contemporary with each other, when often they were of widely different dates, such as being Iron Age or medieval.