PERCEPTION

Articles in this section relate to how we see the world and cosnciousness; and how this affects our perception and interaction of both this world and other perceived dimensions

The View from the Henge Bank: Northern Earth or Northern Chorography?

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Bob Trubshaw unearths a more time-honoured terminology for earth mysteries research   Should readers of Northern Earth be referred to as ‘earth mysterians’? Or as ‘neo-antiquarians’? Or what? Like ‎Molière’s bourgeois gentilhomme, who discovers rather late in life that he has been speaking prose all along, it seems we have always been chorographers. No, not […]

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‘A Flint for the Memory’: A Note on British Ambient and Drone Music

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A common theme throughout the history of earth mysteries is engagement with the spirit of places around us. Artists and writers have creatively explored this interface, and Mark Valentine suggests how drone music is exploring the same area For the past 10 years or so, a new musical form has been emerging amongst independent artists

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#8: “We shall not cease from exploration…”

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“We shall not cease from exploration…”  Eliot’s advisory for perception. 3 We have been talking of the past, and of the present, and of the hauntological membrane of experience between them. That membrane is of course unanchored, timeless, a hiatus between the twin towers of objective evidence and lived documented experience. Between the two lies

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#6: That obscure object of desire: Leys, Watkins and ‘energies’

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  (ill. Davina Ware) In 1972, walking up Glastonbury Tor, I was talking with a chap who, like me, had just hitch-hiked into town. As we approached the tower, he started talking about leys, which he’d just read about. For some reason, the topic sparked off something inside me; the next day I headed home

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