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Earth Mysteries: a belief-free zone
In the 1990s, a new magazine of forteana, mysteries and related subjects, Beyond, was launched, ran for three issues, and ceased… NE’s editor John Billingsley supplied an earth mysteries column for this short-lived venture, and we reprint those three columns here. 1. Associations with places I don’t know what it is that attracts people
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A Spirit Road in Ise, Japan
John Billingsley walks a haunted and fated ‘spirit road’ in Japan’s spiritual heart Ujibashi: The bridge and torii mark the entrance to the sacred precincto Amaterasu at Ise Naikū shrine. It is aligned on the winter solstice sunrise Visitors purify themselves in the isuzu River at Naikū The Grand Shrine of Japan’s
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Loch Nell: Anthropomorphic imagery and sun-worship
Ronnie Gallagher and Tom McLellan offer evidence associating solar alignments with simulacric images, serpent worship, and indications of a significant prehistoric ritual landscape. Introduction. A work secondment in Azerbaijan alerted Ronnie to large-scale anthropomorphic and zoomorphic imagery at archaeological sites.1 Studies by Dr. Leonid Marsadolov in the Altai region of Siberia have indicated solar reverence,
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DEADMANSTONE: Spirit Path To The Otherworld?
Steve Sneyd describes a legendary spiritual journey in West Yorkshire Berry Brow is a hillside suburb a little south of Huddersfield. It is also the location of an unusual natural feature notable equally for its name and its associated weight of folklore. Deadmanstone is a massive rock, perched above a dogleg of a minor road,
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Earth Mysteries is Dead – Long Live Earth Mysteries!
In this article, NE editor John Billingsley raised the question of whether the earth mysteries tag, to the wider public, actually discredits alternative research in our fields of interest, and asks if it’s time for a fond farewell. Earth mysteries began in the 1960-70s in a flurry of question-making that affected all of UK
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Psychogeography: An assessment of meanings
In the early days of ‘earth mysteries’ research, exploratory steps were being taken towards place and the meanings that attach to it, culturally and subjectively, past and present. However, the field was rather thrown off course in the 1970s by the unproductive ‘earth energy’ fascination. NE believes it is time to retrace those steps, and
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Experiences in the Avebury Landscape
There has been a lot of discussion on the NEReaders Forum about transpersonal experiences at ancient sites. This inspired David Taylor to share with NE readers two of his own experiences at Avebury a few years ago. A Flash of Inspiration In the Winter on 1992 a series of events were about to
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Where The Solstice Sun Rises…
Robert W E Farrah suggests an archaeo-astronomical interpretation of a carving on a lintel-stone at the Parish Church Of St Margaret And St James, Long Marton, Cumbria. Long Marton is a fell side village in the Eden Valley below the Pennine fells on the E side of the R Eden, some 5km (3.11m) N
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The Black Madonnas of N W London
Christine Rhone visits a little-known piece of London’s mystical heritage No need to travel to Poland or Spain – the cult of the Black Madonna is thriving in NW London. Not just one, but two major shrines exist in the borough of Brent. The name of this recently created borough comes from the River
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