A
Life of Ley Hunting
1969
A Somerset Ley Hunt
- July 1969
During our stay in Glastonbury in early July, Miss Barbara Crump very kindly
took my fiancee and myself to see some of the interesting ley sites of the area.
Proceeding from Glastonbury the Wells road runs straight for a mile; this was
later found to align to the south with Dundon Hill (head of the Gemini or Orion
figure of the Somerset Zodiac) and to the north with a tumulus near Priddy,
a cross-roads in West Harptree and a piece of straight track near Bristol. In
Glastonbury the line skirts the base of Chalice Hill.
We then visited Fenny Castle and took alignments on the Tor; there is a ley joining the two. We then found the base of an ancient cross near there. From here we went to St. Leonard's Church, Rodney Stoke, which dates from 1174 and has ancient yew trees near. In the Rodney Chapel here both Doris and I had strong humming in our heads as we do at some ley centres (though by no means all). As I expected, I found this to be a good ley centre. It is aligned slightly north of east, to align with two tumuli north of Wells. Strangely enough, the Rodney Chapel was only added in the 15th century.
From here we continued to Nyland Hill, a main ley-orthotenic centre, but found it inaccessible; both Wedmore Church and the Tor were visible from the base though.
Leys, Pubs and Woolworths
The question of aligning pubs or Woolworths has been mentioned many times before,
but I don't think anyone has actually succeeded in doing it! (I believe it has
been attempted, but unsuccessfully!) Also, the fact that Aime Michel has lost
interest in orthoteny does not seem to have any bearing on its authenticity.
One can discover things but not un-discover them, and he set forth in his book
a great deal of weighty evidence for the alignments. The only reason they do
not appear in such great numbers elsewhere is that concentrations of sightings
in a particular area are fairly rare, and investigations as thorough as Aime
Michel's in 1954 even rarer. That archaeologists repudiate leys is not unusual,
especially to anyone concerned with UFOs. All unusual discoveries are official
heresy to begin with.
But I do agree that, although map work is essential, there is little to be gained by covering every available map with as many lines as one can find. The really impressive discoveries, like Doug Chaundy's star patterns and Tony Wedd's Cock and Hen Leys, seem to be made by flashes of inspiration, and keeping one's eyes open for little scraps of information which may fit into the picture. For instance, there is the case of the sighting at San Jose de Valderas, reported in the recent September/October issue of Flying Saucer Review. This is reported to have executed a falling-leaf motion, as other sightings in Aime Michel's book. But in this case it was over an ancient castle...
THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND
THE LIGHT
Tony Wedd's Stonehenge research, 1969
Where the ancient Icknield Way crosses Stane Street there once stood a Roy Stone, giving its name to the modern market stone, until some busybody moved it out of the traffic. In doing this they broke an old taboo, though I doubt if they lost any sleep on that account. They moved it out out truth.
There is a somewhat similar stone near Brecon, which was photographed by Mr John G. Williams, in 1959, with a colour camera while a friend also took a picture in black and white.
"Both pictures came out with a fogged band across them in the same place. My picture was taken in colour and the fog band was dark blue-black. This led me to surmise that something in the stone was spoiling the picture,a kind of ultra-violet light.
"Since then I've had many more examples of the same phenomenon. Most, if not all, standing stones contain quartz, a crystal similar to that used with the cat's whisker in early wireless receivers. I believe most stones would show the fog effect if systematically photographed. I now think the stones form the gigantic power network, though I cannot guess for what purpose," Mr. Williams was quoted as saying in the Daily Telegraph of September 23,1968.
May I hazard that the Roy Stone in its former position may have served to focus or rectify some earth power, some magnetic currents? The objection to moving it would then not be just a surveyor's objection to the removal of his sighting marks,but an electrician's objection to having his juice switched off. The next time any such stones are moved, it would be valuable to photograph them carefully before and after, to see if they only function at one particular site and not at another.
I have regarded standing stones in this light ever since seeing a photograph by G. Hunt Williamson of a flying saucer hovering above a certain rock on the Marcahuasi plateau, which he said was audibly humming in the sunshine like a generator. The saucer, he maintained, was recharging its batteries. And in "The Secret of the Andes," Dr. Williamson recorded: "While it is true that our brothers from space will teach us much in a New Age, they also tell us that it is far better if we regain once more the so-called lost knowledge of the Earth's Golden or Saturnian Age,when men spoke with the gods and with the angels. They tell us that such knowledge is our true heritage, and belongs to all Truth-seeking men of Earth."
Since studying Joan Grant and Denys Kelsey's book "Many Lifetimes," and Dr Jonathan Rodney's "Explorations of a Hypnotist," I have begun to understand why it is "far better." I am convinced that we can tap back into a far memory to recover knowledge that we once had. Dr Rodney had a quite edifying talk on astronomy given under hypnotis by a girl who appeared to have regressed to an earlier lifetime when, as a man, she had studied the subject thoroughly. Surely you and I and the woman who comes in to do the cleaning may have, locked away somewhere, the details of that "purpose" of the standing stones which eludes Mr Williams. Is it not time to get together a community of friends to seek, using some such method as Dr Rodney's, the outlines of that lost technology?
A contactee informs me that navigation by the old leys is difficult nowadays for a flying saucer, because the leys are in poor shape. Railway lines are far easier, which I, as a former R.A.F. pilot can well appreciate.
But I do not think of the leys as merely a product of the doddyman,surveyor. Egerton Sykes, formerly of the Old Straight Track Club, comments that they make no sense as pedlars' tracks - "They really mark the location of magnetic currents."
Mr. Sykes is not particuarly interested in UFOs, but what he says is corroborated by Buck Nelsdn, who ro&e in one: "The Space Men tell me that the places where the magnetic currents cross is comparable to a cross roads sign. The currents or lines of force are named and numbered.
The notable power house to seek in this respect is Stonehenge I, the old circle of bluestones which were brought from Prescelly Mountain in South Wales, on a 250- mile journey, although far larger stones, used for Stonehenge III, were available quite close at hand. Were the bluestones better endowed with quartz crystals, as transistors for Earth power? Was the site a specially appropriate one?
0n visiting Stonehenge in 1967 I discovered a connection between the Aubrey Holes, the Y-circle and the innermost bluestone horseshoe (horseshoe magnets concentrate the field of force). There are 56 Aubrey or X-holes. Joining up every sixteenth hole and every twenty-fourth gives two seven-point stars the one marking the Y-circles, the other the horseshoe. I have no doubt for a moment that this seven-point star is quite intentional, and I know it to be relevant to the space technology, for instance in the De Land Magnetic Control. (see "Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, by Bryant and Helen Reeve).
Stonehenge is so located that the angle of the midsummer sun is 51 1/2 degrees E of N, one-seventh of the 360 degree circle, to one-twentieth of a degree. This would seem to emphasise the meridian, North and South, such as Mr. Williams found to be the case with 200 other sites associated with King Arthur and the Pole Star. At Stonehenge, I found the meridian to be quite as important as the sun alignment. Knop Hill marks it to the North.
Alfred Watkins noted four leys running through Stonehenge, three of which I take the liberty of calling the Prescel Ley, the Grove Leyand the Quar Ley. As to the Northerly one, I .was puzzled. Watkins takes Tan Hill as his mark, 9 degrees W of N. But there is Rybury Camp, 10 degrees W of N, Silbury Hill 5 1/2 degrees W of N, and this line touches the camp at Casterley, which gives another name, and then there's Avebury 4 1/2 degrees W of N. I visitedthe site to sort out the difficulty. Standing prominently on the skyline to the South lay Rox Hill Clump: the exact meridian was marked.
To further emphasise the importance of this mark, I found it played a part in establishing a midday clock for Stonehenge III, the one you may remember, which is estimated to have called for 1,500,000 Man-days to build. They worked, one imagines, in the winter when sledging over frozen ground was easier and went home to grow a brief crop of summer oats upon their strip lynchets.
Why,one wonders, is the mark not called Rocks Hill? The clump is mostly of beech but also carries Ash, Elm, Elder, Yew, Box, Hornbeam, Holly, Ivy, Sycamore, Privet, May and Willow. I fancy it is an old Celtic grove planted with the 13 trees of the tree calendar, which were also the names of the Beth-Luis-Nion alphabet letters.
Peeping through the space in the Southernmost trilithon I could just see Rox Hill Clump in the narrow slit which closed against stone number 11. In fact the slit was so exactly sized that one could place oneself exactly on the meridian inside the tritithon horseshoe and observe a little triangle of sunshine pass across the line at midday slanting down between stones 53 and 54. I could go to Stonehenge and set my watch by that transit at the meridian, and not be above five minutes out.
I further realised that I stood exactly at the right place to read the "inscription" on sarsen 53, set parallel to a vein in the stone sloped exactly at 45 degrees. Did the Stonehengers take that 45 degree angle as the beginning and ending of their summeaxe sign, the cutting tool sandwiched between two bashing tools, just above the vein. Was this to say that reaping was to be sandwiched between rock bashing, say from 7th, April to 7th, September? The 45 degree angle was the one calendrical measurement a Stonehenger could make back home by watching the shadow of a wand set in the ground.
Now I contend that a discovery of that sort may really hark back to a far memory, habits acquired in a former lifetime pull one back to that trilithon, to peep through at the clump. Why has nobody in authority associated Rox Hill with the Stonehenge complex? Why has the writing not been associated with the 45 degree slanting vein? Perhaps because no one has got around to feeling himself into the spirit of the place intuiting his way around imaginatively, as if he had been there before, in other times: they set about it too intellectually. Here was the Way, the Truth and the Light umistakeably. And what else are they but the clues to the old, golden age technology?
Tony Wedd, The Ley Hunter, January 1970