Henge's and Tumuli etc are like a magnet for those interested in the paranormal.
You see new agers and old agers alike going into an almost worshipful trance state when they wander around these enigmatic places where our for fathers did what ever they did there.
Many psychics and mediums go to these places but I cannot recall seeing much written about them that has been picked up psychically.
Why is that. Perhaps I have not looked in the right places.
Has anyone here picked up information from these places?
meiah
Yes....but more feeling type stuff.
Wayland Smithy changes each time I go there, but still welcomes me. I don't quite know how to describe it, but it seems to allow me to change my viewpoint, and therefore who i am.
When i am there, I can sort my head out.
Like being outside of here and now.
Perhaps though, that is what I am looking for when I go there.
Its not a decision, but more an opportunity. Its like "here is an absence of anything fixed, make what you want of it".
Oddly (perhaps), the hillfort shows you tremendous views, different at each step.
Avebury seems more like a journey. I want to walk the stones when I am there. The avenue feels like a transition, consciously taken.
And "consciously" seems to be the key with the place for me, almost ponderously, although I have been there with folks who see it as more "reverentially".
The West Kennet Longbarrow, in contrast feels almost flippant (which is probably VERY inappropriate!!)
Coombe Gibbett is also a transitional place, but more for blowing away what is no longer needed. I have stood there, and shuddered and shuddered the heaviness away, and left there feeling stripped clean.
Now, a friend of mine once did some psychic type stuff on the Gibbet, and he came up with similar stuff, but more focussed on passing. Physically as it is on an old Way, and also spiritually.
It seems to intensify, it does not compromise.
(I just read this and feel a tad silly and wafty, but hey, thats fine)
Raymond
A few years ago I was lucky enough to be in with some people who had exclusive access to Stonehenge.
We went right up to the stones and got to touch them and everything.
When I was there I got the feeling of religious ceremony. The same kind of feeling when you walk into a church.
Whatever went on at Stonehenge was purely religious in nature.
On the same day we visited Avebury. Even though it felt semi-religious there I had more of a feeling of a party or some kind of celebration taking place.
To me, somewhere like Stonehenge would be more for the serious side of the religious observance whereas Avebury would be more for the p*ss up afterwards but still in accordance with the religious theme.
meiah
I can relate to that.
I went to Stonehenge in an exclusive group year before last, and again, we were able to access the stones (which I hadn't done since I was little).
I felt lifted and spiralling backwards out of myself. Can't really verbalise it.
I am drawn more to the Heel Stone, looking back at the circle...which I used to do when I was little...sitting with my back to the Heel stone and gazing through the stones, like looking through a door way.
It seems to be a focal point, which is odd as it is outside the circle.
david hobbs
I think that regardless of whether Stonehenge or Avebury were ever used for religious purposes, the very fact that we treat them with reverence makes them become so.
Because they become so then we have religious experiences when we visit such places.
I say religious but the correct word I guess should be spiritual. I think that now Woolworth's has gone we should turn all the empty stores into cathedrals.
Give it six months and their would be religious Ecstasy and miraculous healing and all manner of spiritual experiences going on.
It is not the place although the place was chosen with care, it is the spiritual investment put into a place that makes it special.
Raymond
Very true Mr. Hobbs. Stonehenge, for example, has only a fraction of it's power and majesty now than it would have had in the distant past sine English heritage stuck a fence up around it and turned it into an ornament.
It has to be remembered though that the pagans of old didn't just plonk a few rocks down on a spare bit of land. That site was obviously carefully chosen for a reason.
And I don't think it was just so you can see the sun rise on two mornings of the year.
Even before you get anywhere near Stonehenge you can feel the magick of the place. The earth in that area is alive. It's rife with fairy activity as well.
meiah
Has no-one else spent time with stones, or picked up anything from them?
