• Where am I?
• Home
• Discussion Topics
• LEY LINES

LEY LINES

Posted by Jon King on Dec 05, 2008

Tagged with: earth electricity, ley lines, michael line, mystery, supernatural, telluric energy, unexplained, weird nature

If you were a crow and could fly in a straight line from, say, St. Michel’s Mount in Cornwall to Glastonbury Tor and on via Stonehenge to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, you’d be following the path of the Michael Line—possibly the best-known Ley Line in the world.

Of course, not all ley lines are as famous or, indeed, as long as the Michael Line.

But they do all by tradition connect sacred sites such as stone circles, earth works, prehistoric burial mounds, even churches, and in effect are assumed lines of ‘telluric energy’ or ‘earth electricity’ that flow from one site to the next following the least line of resistance, much like water flows in a river.

According to some researchers, ley lines can be pretty long, and in some cases can even circumnavigate the entire globe, intersecting many of the planet’s most sacred religious and cultural sites.

Others, however, seem less ambitious, their entire length stretching no further than a few metres, or perhaps a few miles, as the father of ley lines, Alfred Watkins, discovered in 1921 when studying a local map of Hertfordshire.

Evidently Watkins saw that the area’s sacred and historically important sites were conspicuously aligned, and he called these alignments ‘leys’. The term stuck. Ley lines were born. And to judge by the growing interest in the study of ancient alignments, ley lines are here to stay.

If any of you have ever come across an interesting system of ley lines, we’d love you to share it with us…

image source: Tanogabo Paul Devereux