For most of human history, geography has played an important role in the development of human civilization. And, as I wrote about last week, the Earth contains miraculous energy centers. As it turns out, there may be a connection between energy healing centers, and how cultural trade routes developed, and they’re called lei lines.
In this article, I am going to describe what lei lines are, their roots and what brought them to the attention of energy healers, and finally, the captivating aspects of lei lines, whether they are fact or fiction. Lei lines give us a glimmer into the mystical and miraculous, and provide an energy healing route that can be used for healing pilgrimages the world over.
What Are Lei Lines?
So, lei lines are the connections between landmarks, spiritual sites and other man-made structures throughout history that make plain, straight lines through them. While these lei lines might be coincidence, they’re remarkable. And, one after another, these lei lines appear throughout the planet.
Almost a hundred years ago, as we will get into further below, Alfred Watkins, a self-taught archaeologist, antiquarian and businessman had an epiphany that would establish the first identification of lei lines. And, then for forty years the concept laid in obscurity, until the British writer John Michell brought back the concept of lei lines to the mainstream as the New Age zeitgeist of the 1960s birthed.
Playing off the concept of Feng Shui, where an eight-sided map (known as the Bagua) helps to categorize your life energies on physical spaces, Michell associated lei lines with spiritual energies aligned by these physical formations, natural and human-constructed.
History of Lei Lines
So, the history of lei lines’ roots are squarely sourced from the Neolithic Period because of the cursuses of that era. A cursus is a monument from the prehistoric structures of the islands of Britain and Ireland, predominantly. They are aged to around 3,400 to 3,000 BCE, representing the oldest structures ever made by man, some surviving today; notably, Stonehenge.
Until modern aeronautics allowed photographers and videographers to take to the skies for aerial images and videos of the terrain below, determining cursuses were extremely difficult and rare finds by archaeologists. In most cases, they resembled long and wide ditches that were structured in parallel. There were over 50 identified cursuses over the past 70 years, even though many more likely existed but disappeared with weathering and tectonic movements.
The mysteries of the erection of these cursuses aside, this leads us to Alfred Watkins and his findings written in The Old Straight Track. While standing upon a hill in England, Watkins notices how landscape features connected conspicuously in straight lines. He coined these “ley” lines without any spiritual or energetic healing connections. He writes with interest the cultural and economic reasonings for why the ley lines came into existence.
Of course, the story continues from there with John Michell in 1969. While a controversial figure then and today, Michell writes in The Flyer Saucer Vision about ley lines in a way that captivates the Western world because of the energetic centers on which many of these ley lines rest.
It stands to reason more archaeological, sociological and anthropological studies are needed to further learn about the history and connection of ley lines to the energetic healing qualities.
Energy Pathways, or Cultural Artefacts?
Back to Watson, historical trade routes and ancient spiritual, ceremonial reasons abound for why these energy pathways likely exist. Even with Ramsey theory, we can geographically explain ley lines with an understanding that humans would gravitate toward creating routes that were topographically advantageous as civilizations developed and flourished.
Learning about ley lines is an exercise in expanding the consciousness around the possibilities of ancient ancestors having a profound sense of our connection to the planet. They understood on some level the importance of certain locations and those connections have meaning today with or without coincidence.
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This exploration of lei lines continues my interest in energy healing pilgrimages and whether you have ever thought about going on one. Now, you have chakra points on the planet and lei lines to survey in hopes of finding healing, love and light. Let me know in the comments about any plans or experiences!