Earth Energies and Ley Lines

The honour of the re-discovery of the ley-line system on 30 June 1921 belongs to Alfred Watkins (1855-1935). Watkins was a respected Herefordshire businessman who, whilst viewing a map for features of interest, noticed a straight line passing over hills and through various points of interest, many of which were ancient sites. At that time Watkins had no theory about the alignments he had found, but on that day was said to have seen "in a flash" a whole pattern of straight lines stretching across the countryside. In 1925, he described this vision in his book entitled "The Old Straight Track."

His basic theory was that ancient monument sites align in straight lines. Many ancient sites found on British Ordinance Survey maps can actually be connected to form an incredible coincidence of interconnecting lines. A shortcoming of this particular definition of ley lines is that many "ley hunters" have assumed that just because three or more sites are aligned, they are therefore automatically on a ley line. This simply is not true, an alignment of buildings and other man-made structures does not determine the presence of a ley line, although it can be seen as supporting evidence for one.

"Imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak, as far as the eye could reach, and paid out until it reached the 'high places' of the earth at a number of ridges, banks, and knolls. Then visualise a mound, circular earthwork, or clump of trees, planted on these high points, and in low points in the valley and other mounds ringed around with water to be seen from a distance. Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals, and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up. Here and there, at two ends of the way, a beacon fire used to lay out the track. With ponds dug on the line, or streams banked up into 'flashes' to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day. All of these work exactly on the sighting line."

Watkins theorised that the discovered ley lines were the remnants of prehistoric trading routes. He went on to associate ley lines with the Greek god Hermes (the Roman Mercury, the Norse Woden) who was the god of communication and of boundaries, the winged messenger, and the guide to travellers on unknown paths. Watkins identified Hermes-Mercury with the chief god of the Druids and argued that: "A Celtic god, Tout, or in its Romanised form Toutates, is supposed to be what Caesar referred to, and this name has been found on a Romano-British altar. It is a fact that sighting mounds called Tot, Toot, Tout, Tute and Twt abound all over the Kingdom and the root is probably Celtic. The fact that such mounds are mark-points on track ways strengthen the link."

Watkins’ identification of leys as ancient traders' routes was as far as he was prepared to go, despite the fact that numerous ley lines travelled up steep and almost inaccessible hillsides. In 1927 Alfred Watkins published another book, “The Ley Hunters Manual,” a guide to early tracks. Speculation was rife as to the real meaning and purpose of leys, continuing long after Watkins' death in 1935.

Energy in its various forms is invisible to us because our senses are only able to pick up a limited range of vibrations and radiations We can see colour, but not X-rays, we can hear sounds, but only if they are loud enough and within our normal hearing range. Albert Einstein once stated that energy cannot be destroyed, only altered.

Many of these invisible spectrums are only detectable by us via the various technologies such as being recorded on photographic films and the use of various electronic equipment. Until technological advances are developed to reliably detect the presence of underground water and Earth energies, we must rely on Dowsing with copper rods and forked Hazel sticks as we have done successfully for thousands of years. The sensitivity of our bodies and our minds’ intuition can also guide us in the right directions. The human body is still the best receiver we know.

It is perhaps without doubt that the ancients possessed the psychic ability to receive the vibrations from the Earth energies therefore detecting the straight lines and utilising them as a means of connecting A to B, and was no doubt a necessary tool of survival. As the human race has evolved, the need for this in-built human technology has become an increasingly less useful tool and this psychic ability is probably lying dormant, stored in the brain of every one of us. This would give support to the claims that we all have a psychic ability; it just needs practice, including meditation, to revive it.

Most of the ancient monuments and sacred places around the world have one thing in common: the presence of Earth energies in the form of underground water and ley lines. The use of dowsing rods is a technique used for locating these Earth energies that are associated with ley lines. (See the section on ‘Dowsing’). Ley lines and water lines are part of the Earth's energy system and Ancient monuments are made special to us by serving to reveal or mark out that system.

With the advent of Christianity the existing ancient Pagan worship sites built over the Earth energies and ley lines on a small hill were demolished and replaced with Christian churches. These are found to this day as a dominant feature standing on an old Pagan site on a hill overlooking a village or town. The ancient places of worship were probably the basis of the early formation of many settlements growing around the site as ancient man/woman gathered for worship to their God(s).

Ley, as a word, is akin to leoht (light illumination) and Middle-Ages English ‘lea’ meaning "pasture land, a meadow which is open to the sun and therefore, at times, illuminated with natural light." The clearing of tracks through the forest lights the way and marks the "ley of the land." This describes something akin to a cosmic system of roadways upon which people travelled in ancient times. Firstly, lines were made visible by a cleared hilltop notch (a ley), then woodland was cleared through which the ley line passed (lay), then the clearance of domesticated fields on the landscape (lee). The names ley, lay, and lee therefore apply to each stage of the ley landscape development of a straight track or roadway. At dusk in those ancient times, seeing a tree grove on top of a mound on a ley line and a grove of trees on the ley light-way, filled with cosmic light and seeing an aura of light reflecting off manmade pools of water with an island of trees, straight lines passing through earthworks and stone circles and with darkened groves of trees glowing with soft light must certainly have been a sight to behold.

As already stated, Ley lines and light are very closely related as cosmic forces originating outside of the Earth and penetrating the Earth’s surface vertically at specific points. On entering the Earth a ley line continues to a point 265 feet below the surface where at this point, it makes a 90 degree right-angle turn and travels in a perfectly straight line as can be detected on the surface by using dowsing rods. It runs parallel to the Earth’s surface up hill and down dale, but always maintaining a depth of 265 ft .It is said that the average length of a ley line is twenty to thirty miles, although the length may vary from just a few feet to thousands of miles. The width of the line also varies, but the average is 6ft (approx 1.83 meters), about the original width of the (straight) Roman road. The horizontally travelling ley line exits the Earth by again turning 90 degrees and passing straight through the centre of the Earth and exiting on the opposite side. Vertical electromagnetic fields extend up from ley and water lines into homes and buildings. Many castles, stately homes and other grand dwellings built long ago are situated over ley and water lines. Anyone sitting or lying over a positive ley line for an extended period of time could develop a tendency to be hyperactive. This can be advantageous when administering, or receiving healing, or in a situation where extra energy is useful. Care must be taken however with anyone who is already energetically active, the ley line could have an adverse effect, causing an unhealthy situation. Should the extra energy received by a person be from a negative ley line it could quite possibly create or enhance tension, anxiety, and neurosis.In our experiences as paranormal investigators we have found that some individuals have become disoriented, felt light-headed, suffered shaking legs and had feelings of nausea when conducting investigations, especially during séances, when in premises situated over ley lines.

There are recorded sites in the Yorkshire area of the UK where witches' covens or other sects were known to practice their particular forms of ritual, probably harnessing the available energies of the Earth energies passing underneath. Today, at these sites it can be clearly seen that they are devoid of anything living, not even a blade of grass is to be seen growing. Such was the probable nature of the arts and rituals practised.
Earth Energies & Lay Line Images

Researched and contributed by The Searching Elder

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