Stone circles

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> >

> > I lived in England until I was 27, Wendy, the last 5 years in Salisbury

> > which is very near Stonehenge. Spent a lot of time there, couldn't keep

> > away. My husband and I went out there at dawn a couple of times to take

> > photos and that was a very special experience. This was more than 30

years

> > ago and the stones were not fenced off as they are now. We could go

right

> > among them, sit on the fallen ones, hug them (well,partially). I lay on

> the

> > fallen altar stone one misty evening and pretended I was Tess ( of the

> > d'Urbervilles)! I've only looked at a distance since they fenced it

off -

> > can't bear it.

 

 

Hi Jo, How fortunate to live in an area surrounded with standing stones &

circles & that you could experience the energy of Stonehenge before it was

fenced.

 

We spent time in Scotland this summer so I was able to visit the

standing stones at Callanish on the Outer Hebrides. It was a turning point

on our travels for me - from that point on my energy & health improved

daily.There were few people visiting the stones so I was able to touch (hug

as you did) all of the main stones of the inner circle & wander about

absorbing the healing & ancient feel of the place. There was a strong wind

blowing which felt as though it was the life force (prana) healing me as I

breathed it in.

 

Later when in Edinburough we saw the Stone of Destiny where it is under

guard in a dark room in the castle. I felt like you do about the fencing of

Stonehenge - that the stone was held prisioner & is meant to be in the

outdoors where it's spirit can keep the connection to the earth.

 

Wendy

B.C.

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As I understand it, the circles are linked by a system of ley-lines, which

corespond to lines of energy analogous to human energy patterns. In America,

some of these places are marked with the mounds built by the Mississippian

culture. For you non-Americans, the Mississippians were the culture that was

supplanted by the culture that we stole the continent from. They were

contempories of the Anasazi, who are better known because more of their

architecture has survived.

 

Southern Illinois features a lot of these as well as petroglyph sites. I've

been fortunate to visit several of them including some that aren't known to

the general public. My favorite one is a few miles north of Fountain Bluff

along the Mississippi river. To get there you have to hike along the river a

couple of miles, then at the right point on the bluff, you climb about 100

meters up the bluff. The site isn't visable from below. If, however, the

trees were cut down from in front of the site, it would be visable for miles

down the river.

 

There's also a cave that I've been to that I found quite remarkable. I was

there for the first time during a period of extreme conflict in my life, but

when I was sitting at the entrance and looking at the pookl formed under the

rock overhang waterfall, I felt the greatest peace I had known up to that

time. Remarkable.

 

 

> " ged " <gedq

>

>

> Re: Stone Circles

>Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:11:40 +0100

>

> > I too feel drawn to stone circles. Have you been able to explore

>any?

> >Does anyone on the list have experience with circles, ley lines,

> >spiritual

> >places?

>

>I'm in England, we're ear-deep in them; it's a pity I can't send you a few

>

>

>Your first surprise might be that a lot of them are actually pretty scruffy

>and unimpressive. My experience is that they mark special places, not

>create them, and I think it's an experience the ancients would have shared.

>There are two fairy forts on my wife's family's farm in the west of

>Ireland.

>While it's spooky to stand in them and think that it was her ancestors who

>built and used them, they do feel like what they really are; Bronze Age

>cattle pens. The most powerful place I ever saw was a small natural

>grotto,

>glimpsed while leaping across a stream valley in Yorkshire, never seen

>again.

>Incredibly powerful, not a menhir in sight.

>

>Obviously the Americas and Australia are just as endowed with places of

>power as Europe, all you lack are the European-style markers. We know that

>stone circle building was done to a consistent design across the whole of

>Europe, suggesting that there was a college of 'sacred architects',

>probably

>based in what is today northern France, travelling the whole of Ancient

>Europe, overseeing construction.

>

> >I too feel drawn to stone circles.

>

>So maybe old memories run deep Wendy ...

>

>

>Ged

>

>

>

>

 

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>Obviously the Americas and Australia are just as endowed with places of

>power as Europe, all you lack are the European-style markers.

>

>Ged

 

 

There are many special places here in the Americas so hard to find and

others actually public attractions. One of the most deeply spiritual

moments in my life happened at what is a major tourist attraction here in

the Southeast, Ruby Falls. If you simply follow the standard tour through

the cave with the guide chattering away it is difficult to concentrate on

the beauty and energy that emanates from the Earth. I however, dropped off

the back of the group when we reached the falls (a tour happens every eight

minutes or so and you can join up with the next one going up) and sat on the

benches surrounding the falls. For those who haven't been there...Ruby

Falls is an underground waterfall which was turned into a tourist

attraction...tours walk down through the mountain to the falls...the pathway

down is heavily lighted but the actual cavern where the falls are is

basically lighted only by the colored lights that click on as you enter the

cavern and are focused on the falls. Anyway once the tour group leaves, the

lights are tripped off so that it leaves you sitting deep underground in

this cave in absolute darkness. The feeling was incredible. It felt as

though the Goddess was wrapping her arms around me in a comforting hug. I

managed to sit through two tours coming through and soak up the energy in

between in the dark before an irate tour guide made me join them and go back

up. They state at the beginning of the tour that if you get tired that you

can stop at any of the benches along the way and rest till the next tour

comes along so I complained about the tour guides attitude when we got

topside (it wasn't like she was the last tour or anything) and the manager

gave us all our money back. I will however never forget the wonderful

feeling of comfort that I felt during those few minutes of silence and dark

between the tours.

 

I think if I ever hit the lottery really big, I will have to see how much

money it would take to get the owners to allow me to spend the night in the

cave.

 

Bright Blessings,

 

Angharad Truthsayer

aka Sandy Roberts

 

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universe filled with love, laughter and joy. Begin today to find this

within you and share it with the world. You will find that it will be the

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Dear Florie and list,

 

Florie wrote:

 

> I recall reading something about sacred places in Australia, as well.

Are> you near any, or have you visited them?<

 

There are many sacred places in Australia but most of them would not be

recognised by white folk. The Aborigines who were the original inhabitants

of this country were semi-nomadic and didn't build things except for

temporary shelters made of bark and leaves. If they were coast dwellers they

lived in caves. Recent fossil finds suggest they have been here for about

70,000 years.

 

When the British arrived with their convict ships in 1788, they came to a

land that had no 'built environment'. When I think about this I find it hard

to conceive of. Can you imagine a land with no structures or buildings of

any kind? Nothing man-made. Just nature.

 

The most important (?) sacred place here is Ayers Rock (or Uluru, as we now

call it - its Aboriginal name) in the Centre. You've probably heard of it. I

visited it when I first came to Australia in 1973, well before there was any

tourist development in the Centre, at Alice Springs. It is the most

incredible place. Very large, from a distance looking a bit like a

crouching animal on the very flat surface of the Inland. It appears in many

different colours, especially at sunset, depending on what the light is

doing. The surrounding earth is the red ochre colour of the Centre.

 

While my companion climbed the rock (it's now in the care of the Aborigines

and they ask you not to climb it) I walked round the base. In the month

before we went there had been more rain than usually falls in this area in a

year, and there were pools of water around the base of the rock with mice

and other small creatures floating in them. They'd drowned in the unusual

downpours, and added to the eerie feeling of the place.

 

The rock is riddled with holes and clefts and the wind blows through and

makes an ethereal, unreal, spooky sound. I was alone walking round the base,

and I was quite disturbed. Uluru is near Alice Springs in the Centre of

Australia, about 1000 miles from Sydney on the east coast.

 

Also in the Centre are many craggy canyons and hidden water holes, all

shades of red/orange. Spectacular. Near Uluru is a group of very large

spherical rocks called the Olgas (after some white man's wife) which are so

regular in shape you would think them man-made.

 

Wonderful they all are, but they don't do for me what Stonehenge did.

Stonehenge was made by people, about 3500 years ago, and I spent hours there

imagining the people who built it and *how* they built it. There is a

wonderful TV program about a group of engineers/scientists in England who

got together a huge group of volunteers on Salisbury Plain (near Stonehenge)

and recreated the method they thought might have been used to erect the huge

stones and place the lintel stones across the top without any of the

machinery we have today. Riveting television (if you'll excuse the pun!).

 

Sorry, Florie, I don't remember how I felt at the time! Too long ago. In

the five years I lived nearby, Stonehenge became like an old familiar

friend, and I 'light up' still when I see or hear of it. Incurable romantic!

 

Love,

Jo, in Sydney

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In a message dated 10/13/2000 1:51:23 PM Central Daylight Time,

rayhuntermt writes:

 

<<

As I understand it, the circles are linked by a system of ley-lines, which

corespond to lines of energy analogous to human energy patterns. In America,

some of these places are marked with the mounds built by the Mississippian

culture. For you non-Americans, the Mississippians were the culture that was

supplanted by the culture that we stole the continent from. They were

contempories of the Anasazi, who are better known because more of their

architecture has survived.

 

Southern Illinois features a lot of these as well as petroglyph sites. I've

been fortunate to visit several of them including some that aren't known to

the general public. My favorite one is a few miles north of Fountain Bluff

along the Mississippi river. To get there you have to hike along the river a

couple of miles, then at the right point on the bluff, you climb about 100

meters up the bluff. The site isn't visable from below. If, however, the

trees were cut down from in front of the site, it would be visable for miles

down the river.

 

There's also a cave that I've been to that I found quite remarkable. I was

there for the first time during a period of extreme conflict in my life, but

when I was sitting at the entrance and looking at the pookl formed under the

rock overhang waterfall, I felt the greatest peace I had known up to that

time. Remarkable.

>>As a member of the healing community in St Louis we treasure our

WoodHenge (for real LARGE logs stood in a circle with exact point to the

summer and winter equinox, remants at the museum) at the Cahokia Mounds

mentioned previously. Very powerful meditation and history has gone on

there. I also like exploring the backwoods of Missouri, Iowa and Illnois

finding late remnant/petrogliphs of native sacred life. Hard to find, but

worth the effort.

 

 

Be love and laugh!!

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I believe the message below was form Ray ... ???So, to whom ever, I would

like to acknowledge that we share an interest in the Midwest region of the

USA. I am interested in what you have mentioned about sacred sites in

Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Could you offer any specific resources for

more information on the sites you are familiar with?

 

Thank you,

 

 

--

Barbara Neebel Meier, PEHA, Windemere School of Eastern Healing Arts

Breath Teacher

Usui Reiki Master Teacher/Tummo Reiki II

www.windemere.org

Barbara

 

 

on 10/14/00 3:07 PM, StLReiki at StLReiki wrote:

 

In a message dated 10/13/2000 1:51:23 PM Central Daylight Time,

rayhuntermt writes:

 

<<

As I understand it, the circles are linked by a system of ley-lines, which

corespond to lines of energy analogous to human energy patterns. In America,

some of these places are marked with the mounds built by the Mississippian

culture. For you non-Americans, the Mississippians were the culture that was

supplanted by the culture that we stole the continent from. They were

contempories of the Anasazi, who are better known because more of their

architecture has survived.

 

Southern Illinois features a lot of these as well as petroglyph sites. I've

been fortunate to visit several of them including some that aren't known to

the general public. My favorite one is a few miles north of Fountain Bluff

along the Mississippi river. To get there you have to hike along the river a

couple of miles, then at the right point on the bluff, you climb about 100

meters up the bluff. The site isn't visable from below. If, however, the

trees were cut down from in front of the site, it would be visable for miles

down the river.

 

There's also a cave that I've been to that I found quite remarkable. I was

there for the first time during a period of extreme conflict in my life, but

when I was sitting at the entrance and looking at the pookl formed under the

rock overhang waterfall, I felt the greatest peace I had known up to that

time. Remarkable.

>>As a member of the healing community in St Louis we treasure our

WoodHenge (for real LARGE logs stood in a circle with exact point to the

summer and winter equinox, remants at the museum) at the Cahokia Mounds

mentioned previously. Very powerful meditation and history has gone on

there. I also like exploring the backwoods of Missouri, Iowa and Illnois

finding late remnant/petrogliphs of native sacred life. Hard to find, but

worth the effort.

 

 

Be love and laugh!!

 

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Most of the sites that I've been to in southern Illinois and Missouri were

with a friend of mine who lives in Carbondale. Let me do a little checking.

The bluff-top site was written up by him for a small archeology magazine.

I'll see what I can find out.

 

 

>Barbara Neebel Meier <Barbara

>

>

>Re: Stone Circles

>Sat, 14 Oct 2000 19:37:42 -0500

>

>I believe the message below was form Ray ... ???So, to whom ever, I would

>like to acknowledge that we share an interest in the Midwest region of the

>USA. I am interested in what you have mentioned about sacred sites in

>Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Could you offer any specific resources for

>more information on the sites you are familiar with?

>

>Thank you,

>

>

>--

>Barbara Neebel Meier, PEHA

>Director, Windemere School of Eastern Healing Arts

>Breath Teacher

>Usui Reiki Master Teacher/Tummo Reiki II

>www.windemere.org

>Barbara

>

>

>on 10/14/00 3:07 PM, StLReiki at StLReiki wrote:

>

>In a message dated 10/13/2000 1:51:23 PM Central Daylight Time,

>rayhuntermt writes:

>

><<

>As I understand it, the circles are linked by a system of ley-lines, which

>corespond to lines of energy analogous to human energy patterns. In

>America,

>some of these places are marked with the mounds built by the Mississippian

>culture. For you non-Americans, the Mississippians were the culture that

>was

>supplanted by the culture that we stole the continent from. They were

>contempories of the Anasazi, who are better known because more of their

>architecture has survived.

>

>Southern Illinois features a lot of these as well as petroglyph sites. I've

>been fortunate to visit several of them including some that aren't known to

>the general public. My favorite one is a few miles north of Fountain Bluff

>along the Mississippi river. To get there you have to hike along the river

>a

>couple of miles, then at the right point on the bluff, you climb about 100

>meters up the bluff. The site isn't visable from below. If, however, the

>trees were cut down from in front of the site, it would be visable for

>miles

>down the river.

>

>There's also a cave that I've been to that I found quite remarkable. I was

>there for the first time during a period of extreme conflict in my life,

>but

>when I was sitting at the entrance and looking at the pookl formed under

>the

>rock overhang waterfall, I felt the greatest peace I had known up to that

>time. Remarkable.

> >>As a member of the healing community in St Louis we treasure our

>WoodHenge (for real LARGE logs stood in a circle with exact point to the

>summer and winter equinox, remants at the museum) at the Cahokia Mounds

>mentioned previously. Very powerful meditation and history has gone on

>there. I also like exploring the backwoods of Missouri, Iowa and Illnois

>finding late remnant/petrogliphs of native sacred life. Hard to find, but

>worth the effort.

>

>

>Be love and laugh!!

>

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