"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
The concept of "ley lines" is generally thought of in relation to Alfred Watkins, but the stimulus and background for the concept is attributed to the English astronomer Norman Lockyer . [3] [4] [5] On 30 June 1921, Watkins visited Blackwardine in Herefordshire , and went riding a horse near some hills in the vicinity of Bredwardine , when he noted that many of the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line. [6] He was studying a map when he noticed places in alignment. "The whole thing came to me in a flash", he later told his son. [7] It has been suggested that Watkin's experience stemmed from faint memories of an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford titled Boundaries and Landmarks , in which he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe". [8] Watkins believed that, in ancie...
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it kept me from eternity
freedom was true but misdefined
I'd lived my life so confined
the sky was blue the grass was green
i was bound in chains never seen
the world was large and life was slow
i tried to help but couldn't go
the chains locked up I'd get nowhere
i couldn't move just sit and stare.
Shawn Kendrick Hall