Leylines and Churches

At the moment, I am pursuing an interest in Earth Energies. There is a book called the Sun and the Serpent by Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhusrt which looks at the St Michael and St Mary line which are two really important leylines in the UK. They pass all the way through Cornwall, so they tend to come up whenever you research anything to do with Earth Energies in Cornwall. And to be honest there is not much good information on leylines on the net - it sweeps over the top generally and is non-factual and non-experience based. So this book gets referred too...

Recently my conspiracy friend referred to it as well in conversation. We were talking about a couple of local places that I believe are situated on the St Michael line. Places I like very much and do not find negative. He believed them to be negative and that the St Michael line is 'bad' while the St Mary line is 'good'. I really, really struggled with that idea. I decided it was time to get this book and see what it actually said, instead of keep getting it all second hand....

I am glad I did! The book was the tale of two men traveling across the country dowsing the position of the St Michael line. Except that part way through they found the St Mary line and had an aha moment about the nodes they had found previously. They then went back and traced the St Mary line as well.

One thing that is clear reading the book is that they did not feel that either of these lines were good or bad, although one did feel more masculine and the other more feminine. It was clear that both have been known about by the church and the freemasons and used by them. But there is no mention here as to whether or not their use over time has been good or bad at the average parish church. The book is very careful to steer away from such material - whether or not the dowsers felt such things or not, they have not set out to generally criticise, except where evidence is clear or unlikely to offend.

They talk of the destruction of Avebury and the part the church played in this and it is easy to see how the church could become jealous of a serpentine landscape temple that they could not adopt as Christian very easily. At Glastonbury it is clear that the church was more easily able to adopt the mythical landscape and did so with great success.

Because that is what the church has done over time. They have adopted all the pagan and shamanic techniques and places they can and have kept the knowledge alive and well at some level. What they have done is discredit that knowledge within the general population or cut it off from it's non-Christian roots. They have set themselves up as the middle men between the people and divinity. Unfortunately this has meant that in the modern age, many people have lost all touch with divinity in their lives. I think the Church has realised this and is to some extent starting to make things more accessible again.

Where Paul and Hamish do talk about bad energies they are linked to very specific examples - a tomb that emitted bad energies that polluted a church and a castle that was used as a prison which unfortunately on a ley line and had considerably polluted it. I am left wondering though, at all the things they left out, all the sites they passed through and barely mentioned or left out. Sites that I am interested in and believe to be on the line were not mentioned at all, even though it is clear the line passes in the vicinity. And these are some of the local sites I have discussed with my conspiracy friend.

In some churches, leylines make dramatic turns, but the writers were unsure as to whether the points of interest marked or controled the energy currents. Leylines often make dramatic turns within stone circles as well.

Interestingly, the churches where the energy was alive and well had congregations which were active and cared for the church. In one church the writers even met the priest who not only knew about the energies but was well versed in them and the area exorcist... This is what they say "The energy, he said with a refreshing openess, was neutral until used, and that it was the practice in the past to site religious establishments on the flow to keep it pure. The chapel, crucially situated near the Mount, had, since being built, been allowed to deteriorate spiritually, and he had been charged with the reversal of this downward trend. It certainly seemed he had done an excellent job, for it is now a place that uplifts the spirits."

I personally feel that churches are my heritage whether I am Christian or not. They are built in my land, by my ancestors, my ancestors worshipped in them and are buried at them. Or current disillusionment with Christianity has meant a considerable loss of focus and spirituality in communities. I personally feel that Churches need to become more multi-cultural places, because these earth energies need to be cared for.