About Earth Energies - Ancient Penwith | Cornwall

The Earth's crust and its landscape is a shell, a sheath for a massive bundle of paisley-like swirling energy-fields that is the Earth as a being. It is a subtle, resonating, reverberating bundle comprised of gravitational force, light, photon, electromagnetic and subtle energy in a multitude of wavelengths which also include feelings, thought and consciousness.

Energy follows patterns and streams, along the line of least resistance. It is both energy and information. It conveys the intelligence of the world, akin to a nervous and brain system of the planet. The planet thinks.

Earth is part of a flattish solar system made up of the Sun, three enormous planets, a number of smaller planets including Earth and some minuscule ones, together with even smaller lumps and bits hurtling around, plus a lenticular body of dust and gas, all irradiated by energy pulsing from the Sun and tweaked by the effects of the planets. It's one living, interacting system.

This solar system moves, breathes and resonates continually and rhythmically. The positional relationships of the planets to each other modulate and reflect the dynamic energetic fields of the whole system – these energies ripple, hum and sound out in perpetually changing permutations.

It’s what Johannes Kepler called ‘the music of the spheres’ – sound being analogous to the full spectrum of wavelengths involved.

Sound is a carrier-wave conveying thoughts, emotions and deeper imagery and experiences. Similarly with subtle energy, it's a carrier-wave.

Each planet is a thrumming sphere, and even a crusty planet like Earth is more flexible and resonant than we imagine - even the rocks and soil move tidally. This crust acts as a kind of amplifying sound-box – hence that earthquakes can be detected at the other side of the world. The Earth’s basic pulse or frequency is around eight cycles per second, but there are sub-frequencies and multi-levels to this.

The Earth has needs and preferences, feelings and thoughts, an identity of its own and a soul-like core. It has perpetually-changing relationships with other planets. It breathes and pulses in ever-morphing patterns and permutations. (Get the lowdown in Power Points in Time.)

This fluctuating planetary resonance-dissonance pattern breaks down into intricate localised patterns, circuits and flows, analogous to the blood-distribution and nervous systems within our bodies.

There's a complex tidal flow to it, coursing through the meridians or energy-lines of the Earth, some of which are straight, some sinuous, some big, some small, some above ground and reaching out into the far reaches of the magnetosphere, and some under the ground, shallow or deep.

Water is a major energy conductor – hence the relationship between underground water and energy lines and patterns.

Certain kinds of ancient site, particularly standing stones and stone circles, plugged into this subsurface energy, act as energy conductors between the heavens, the surface and the depths of the Earth.

This is what we loosely call ‘earth energy’. Trouble is, we haven’t identified and agreed on a more specific description than this. We’re talking about different frequencies, shades, levels, voltages, colours and sounds. This understanding is yet to come.

Energy is what we sense when we visit ancient sites. Subtle energy brings a smile to our faces, at times making a day unforgettable. Spending time at an ancient site and letting ourselves become changed by it is a good and gratifying thing to do.

One key aspect of earth energy is its psychoactive effect. Ancient sites have a mysterious pull, and for many of us it’s a healing and growth process.

The people of the megalithic era knew something that we don’t, to do with energy engineering. In their way, they sought to render their world more fruitful, enchanted and safe.

Perhaps they sought to build a kind of 'heaven on earth’, seeking to raise and perfect nature and the world (just as we do), or at least trying to make a better life for themselves. They saw it to be in their best interests to do this.

From the Neolithic to the Bronze Age there was a big transition. Population grew. Humans found new ways to impact on nature - clearing trees and shaping the land with metal tools. In the Neolithic they were very much impacted by nature and its ways and rules, while in the Bronze Age, through tree felling and landscaping they could see a new landscape, never before created.

They began thinking 'This is ours' - not ownership exactly, more stewardship and management. Their approach to nature was largely collaborative yet they were altering it significantly. Humans took it upon themselves to tweak and alter nature, to enhance its potential. The golden age of the megalith era took place in this phase. It was an advanced culture and close to sustainable, lasting over a thousand years.

Then came a change in the Late Bronze Age. Inequalities, rivalries, territoriality and rivalry increased, earlier principles were eroded and, around 1200 BCE, it seems that the old magic was broken - a crisis and change took place. Stone circles, standing stones and mounds were no longer built - that had declined from 1500 onwards. After that we see more settlements, trading, defensive or property-based structures, and the appearance of weapons, horses, hill camps and warrior aristocracies.

Many of the principles developed in an earlier age continued into later times, as traditions more than innovations. They survived another 2,500 years into the Middle Ages, with a mortal decline around the time of the Black Death and the arrival of the modern era, where a secular sense of separateness, both from nature and from each other, became the baseline of our collective reality.

This long process involved a loss of knowledge that now we seek to reclaim, through such pursuits as geomancy and many other fields. The difference now is that we have seen both sides of this equation, and are becoming wiser for it.

John Michell uncorked the geomancy bottle, setting thousands of people on a path that still has a long way to go. He changed many of his ideas as time went on and revised the book in the 1980s, yet his essential vision didn’t change. Around 1970 his work The Old Stones of the Land’s End Peninsula arose out of serious field research he did around that time to demonstrate his point about straight alignments between ancient sites.

The alignments he discovered around 1970 hold up well - they were accurate and only one or two have failed the accuracy-checking we have done recently. His discovery of the Michael Line spanning southern Britain has endured the test of time too.

Dowsers like TC Lethbridge (Patterns of the Past) and Tom Graves (Needles of Stone) were more specific, identifying energy flows and spirals at particular sites and making us aware that such sites processed energy not just in a sacred context but also in a scientific and technological one. These monuments did things, and they still do.

Professor Thom, John Neal and others analysed the geometric and metrological sophistications of ancient sites and their megalithic science. It was demonstrated that the ancients understood complexities such as the precession of the equinoxes and the heliocentric solar system. They worked with the golden mean, the phi ratio and complex numbers.

They were capable of tricky engineering exploits. No doubt, by extension, they were also skilled in such things as natural medicine, husbandry, seed improvement, maritime travel, metal streaming, mining and smelting, craftwork and many other advanced activities.