CLICK ON THE TITLE ABOVE...
to watch a short video demonstrating the 'tracing'
of a ley star under the Preseli Hills, Pembrokshire
*Please excuse the very poor sound quality due to
the windy weather and my basic equipment... hopefully
you'll get the gist of it!
I have also written an introductory A4 Word doc:
Earth’s Ley Mantle - EB ‘24 - A4 info sheet (1).docx
'Earth Whispers & Listening Sticks'
TRACING LEY STARS
By Erling Burgess
2009 - 2024
What I have found so far...
*Try turning your smartphone sideways to 'landscape' position,
inorder to read text more clearly and comfortably...
Many have heard of ley lines - these enigmatic
and completely natural paths of energy
have been alluded to throughout history.
Yet they remain a comparative secret by being
invisible and so subtle.
Recently I have found that these lines seem to
have a vertical dimension - I discovered this
after dowsing a line that I know runs diagonally
through my house, upstairs! This was simple to
do with the open plan layout and the fact that
no pipes or cables run under the floor upstairs or
downstairs to confuse the reading.
Consequently I have started to call them
Ley Ribbons.
Visualise a complex winding of these ribbons around
the earth, snaking in overall straight directions,
criss-crossing everywhere and creating a subtle field of
energy around our planet... an obvious and crude
analogy being like countless electrons whizzing round
an atom?
My current findings have revealed what appears to
be an incredibly detailed mantle made up of these
ribbons - I call it the ley mantle. What it means is
that one is always within ten to twenty metres or so
from a ley ribbon... wherever we are.
Aborigines call them song lines and in China they are
known as dragon veins; Native Americans call them
spirit lines... I have a notion to call them earth whispers
and my dowsing rods listening sticks :-)
Some people are able to sense them directly but
most of us simply get a feeling of well-being,
subconsciously, when near them.
My understanding is that centers are formed where
several ribbons happen to cross, forming a stars of
varying complexity and these spots have long been
recognized as special places. Infact I'd go as far as
proposing that ley ribbons are attracted to form a
centre - snapping together almost
like magnets..
It is no coincidence that temple mounds, stone circles,
churches, abbeys and cathedrals were purposefully sited
on these spots. They have an atmosphere of well-being
and stillness that long precedes man and his beliefs.
Beautiful buildings obviously add to this natural
ambience, along with worship, prayer and music etc...
The knowledge of these ley stars as I call them,
is based on direct experience and sensing.
It is an ongoing empirical study, enabled by the ancient,
practical, yet topical technique of dowsing.
I liken the process to brass rubbing: making visible
these beautiful, subtle flows.
I am learning more with every new project and aim
to keep the process direct and simple, trying to avoid
forming preconceived ideas.
Incidentally, engineers in the water, electricity and gas
industries still use dowsing as an additional tool for
detecting hidden supply lines out in the field.
By dowsing 360 degrees around a potential ley star,
I am able to record and map the crossing of ley ribbons -
interestingly always an even number to date:
I have traced a thirty-two pointer, sixteen ley ribbons crossing, at
Middle Hill near Warminster, upon which a large mound is placed.
The basic Six-pointer, three ribbons crossing, appears to be
widespread locally... including several gardens I have dowsed.
You can see the outcome of this process in the gallery below -
where the ley lines appear straight, is just the simplification
of my drawing...
CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO ENLARGE AND TO SEE TEXT
and completely natural paths of energy
have been alluded to throughout history.
Yet they remain a comparative secret by being
invisible and so subtle.
Recently I have found that these lines seem to
have a vertical dimension - I discovered this
after dowsing a line that I know runs diagonally
through my house, upstairs! This was simple to
do with the open plan layout and the fact that
no pipes or cables run under the floor upstairs or
downstairs to confuse the reading.
Consequently I have started to call them
Ley Ribbons.
Visualise a complex winding of these ribbons around
the earth, snaking in overall straight directions,
criss-crossing everywhere and creating a subtle field of
energy around our planet... an obvious and crude
analogy being like countless electrons whizzing round
an atom?
My current findings have revealed what appears to
be an incredibly detailed mantle made up of these
ribbons - I call it the ley mantle. What it means is
that one is always within ten to twenty metres or so
from a ley ribbon... wherever we are.
Aborigines call them song lines and in China they are
known as dragon veins; Native Americans call them
spirit lines... I have a notion to call them earth whispers
and my dowsing rods listening sticks :-)
Some people are able to sense them directly but
most of us simply get a feeling of well-being,
subconsciously, when near them.
My understanding is that centers are formed where
several ribbons happen to cross, forming a stars of
varying complexity and these spots have long been
recognized as special places. Infact I'd go as far as
proposing that ley ribbons are attracted to form a
centre - snapping together almost
like magnets..
It is no coincidence that temple mounds, stone circles,
churches, abbeys and cathedrals were purposefully sited
on these spots. They have an atmosphere of well-being
and stillness that long precedes man and his beliefs.
Beautiful buildings obviously add to this natural
ambience, along with worship, prayer and music etc...
The knowledge of these ley stars as I call them,
is based on direct experience and sensing.
It is an ongoing empirical study, enabled by the ancient,
practical, yet topical technique of dowsing.
I liken the process to brass rubbing: making visible
these beautiful, subtle flows.
I am learning more with every new project and aim
to keep the process direct and simple, trying to avoid
forming preconceived ideas.
Incidentally, engineers in the water, electricity and gas
industries still use dowsing as an additional tool for
detecting hidden supply lines out in the field.
By dowsing 360 degrees around a potential ley star,
I am able to record and map the crossing of ley ribbons -
interestingly always an even number to date:
- Two points = 1 ley ribbon
- Four points = 2 ley ribbons
- Six points = 3 ley ribbons
- Eight points = 4 ley ribbons
- Ten points = 5 ley ribbons
- Twelve points = 6 ley ribbons
- Fourteen points = 7 ley ribbons
- Sixteen points = 8 ley ribbons
- Eighteen points = 9 ley ribbons
- Twenty points = 10 ley ribbons etc..
I have traced a thirty-two pointer, sixteen ley ribbons crossing, at
Middle Hill near Warminster, upon which a large mound is placed.
The basic Six-pointer, three ribbons crossing, appears to be
widespread locally... including several gardens I have dowsed.
You can see the outcome of this process in the gallery below -
where the ley lines appear straight, is just the simplification
of my drawing...
CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO ENLARGE AND TO SEE TEXT
In 2020, within my parents' one acre garden,
I traced a much closer pattern of ribbons than I had
expected, which lead to my current understanding
of how prevalent ley lines actually are.
What interested me was the clear correlation of my
mother's garden design, created very intuitively over
the years, with the pattern of ley ribbons running
through the property.
It reinforced the sense that certain places feel good
and tied in with another recurring theme I have noticed -
the seemingly intuitive positioning of memorial benches
on ley ribbons, crosses or stars.
More recently I have noticed how animal tracks, typically
seen running through wild grassland or marshland areas,
correalate with ley ribbons - exactly the same as our
human tracks, well observed and postulated by Alfred
Watkins back in the early Twentieth Century.
When I started this project around 2009, I was
looking at the existence of a single ley lines as special -
like the famous Michael Line for instance.
Now I can see that ley ribbons are indeed a very
local phenomenon, creating an incredibly complex, living
weave and mantle.
Ley lines definitely vary in strength - sometimes the rods
turn and hold their position very strongly, whereas many
appear relatively weak.
I try to dowse consciously and with respect.
For-instance I avoid dowsing inside churches and
would always seek permission first.
In my experience, not everyone is a natural dowser.
With some, the rods keep randomly moving as soon as
they are held in position.
I call these folk spinners, literally live-wires, while others
register no movement at all - these folk I call earths.
Between the two are the neutrals - individuals who
register a clear and immediately discernible movement
of the rods as a ley ribbon is crossed.
I propose that this observation should be taken into
account in any blind test - that potentially less than half
of folk fall within the spectrum of natural or neutral-
natural dowsers?
Thank you for reading and taking a look - this is an
ongoing field study and I am planning to film more of
my flagged tracings with a drone this year.
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