Those who have studied earth energy claim that locations such as Stonehenge, Avebury and similar circular henges were chosen because of powerful energies that exist deep within the landscape. Such recognition by our ancestors is based on the idea that, generations ago, our ability to tune into our sixth sense was heightened - in the same way that today's Aboriginals, unaffected by modern ways can 'find' water deep undergound in the Australian bush. Experts argue that there was no random building of sacred sites: temples, henges, burial mounds, long barrows were all constructed at locations where these natural energies were more focused, and easily detected by our predecesors. There are even suggestions that because these constructions are concaved they were specifically designed to concentrate this natural energy. So, did those who built Stonehenge, for example, chose the area because they located a concentration of earth energy deep underground together with an alignment with the sun, moon and stars? Although considered somewhat fanciful by some, these ideas are beginning to be supported by archaeologists who recognise that such sites were certainly influenced by the rocks and the stars. Another Wiltshire location that geomantics claim can be linked with these energy fields is The Sanctuary near West Overton. As part of the Avebury complex, this area was described by the antiquarian William Stukeley as forming part of a great serpent, which extended from the main stone circle at Avebury, along the Avenue and ended at The Sanctuary. So-called 'male and female' earth energies have been located at The Sanctuary, where they are said to cross-over, something that would have been hugely significant to Neolithic man, in-tune, as he was, with the natural cycle of the world. This importance of the circle is reflected by the cyclical structure of The Sanctuary and similar constructions at Woodhenge, near Amesbury. What do you reckon? Is this all hokus-pokus or do you believe in the principle of earth energies in Wiltshire and around the globe? Share your thoughts using the links below. • Multimedia GALLERY: Click here for The Moonraking Gallery

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Marc
The truth is in nature. It's called perpetual energy. You find it by living in balance with nature. If you don't believe me, look out your window and watch the weather changing. Everything is connected. And there will always be those that deny the truth.

Mark Park
Disturbingly uncritical. Its appalling that the BBC should misuse terms like 'expert' and 'energy' in this way. Try to remember 'new-age' means 'post-rational' - not requiring evidence. There is absolutely no connection to reality in any of these tedious ramblings. New age 'energy' is proudly characterised as 'containing no energy! Wonderful stuff! The editor of the long-established journal the Ley Hunter, Danny Sullivan, dismisses such claims for 'energies; the only proper studies to have been made of 'dowsers' show they would have got better results if they'd made guesses! There's a useful saying: "Keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."

Ken.
Believers will always believe! Disbelievers will always mock! I try to be logical about it, but feel there is something about the earth energy theory, which can not be so easily explained. Not sure what it is, but I think it is a real force. Lets face it, if you have a mountain made of iron, it is going to have a different feel about it, than one made of clay, so there could be a logical explanation.

ali
there are two ways to be fooled one is to believe what is not so the other is to refuse to believe what is so

Nicholbus Fornby
Pish! Earth energy? It all comes from eating shredded wheat - these new age folk never eat a decent breakfast -and get confused very easily. Energy does not fade, it is merely transfered, therefore if you are on a hill you have more potential energy than if you are at the bottom. That is as much earth energy as you are going to get.

jan
i believe in earth energies. i have different feelings when i have visited the different places that you mention especially Glastonbury tor, makes me feel so good inside.

Malcolm
I went to a dinner party the other day, all the others at the party were experimenting with dowsing and claimed to experience a force in the dowsing rods. Needless to say I experienced no such phenomenon. I struggle to understand how so many well-educated people cal fall for this type of clap-trap! It's all in the mind - wake up!

vankoche
Just watch and enjoy !

Monique
Ancient people were less distracted by material matters: mobile phones, big houses or the fastest cars. All they had was landscape, the seasons and sun, moon and stars. No wonder they lived more in-tune with the elements of nature than we do today. To them they were matters of life and death. I could feel energies long before I learned about leylines and other (earth) energies: to me they are no hokus pokus but manifestations of nature. The fact that they are not scientiffically proved does not prove that they don't exist... (Didn't we once think the world was flat?) I agree with the claim that ancient monuments, churches built before 1300 AC and other "holy places" are often build on lycentra (places were energylines cross) and that these lines connect monuments with each other. It's now in the spooky corner but maybe it will become science in the future when we've invented machines able to measure these energies. Bacteria did not exist before the microscope too..

Sheila Stewart
When you move half a world away from Stonehenge you will learn to appreciate it far more than you did while living 3 -4 miles away.I can never come back to Englan without going there again.

adam
Your misunderstanding and misuse of archaeological evidence is disturbing.

Mark
Ancient people formed such beliefs to make sense of the world. Surely we can take a more scientific approach to explaining any phenomenon if such exist?

dave
I don't know if many people feel it, but when projects such as the tunnel proposed at stonhenge, & the rape of the land east of amesbury to accomadate the new buisness park happen, it feels like a part of me has died. Maybe some people are still in touch with the land, it would be nice to turn back the clock in many ways. I was a sceptic once untill I was shown how to douse, try it with two L shaped brass welding rods held lose across the chest if you walk over underground water the rod's will lie in the direction of flow, we use this method for locating old water pipes etc prior to digging to install cables. Did my head in the first time I saw it. There are stranger things in heaven earth than we will ever know.

Teresa
I love this site and think that we should all keep an open mind. There are lots of clues for interested people to find in Wiltshire and the discovery of them will help everyone to see life in a different way. This will enable us to rid the planet of all the negative forces that are stirring up trouble. I believe that these negative forces thrive on our pain, fears and all other negative emotions that they are able to induce. Being positive about everything in life is the only way forward for the human race.

pipi
i heard that koln cathedral was built on one of the places full of energy or 'earth chacres'. i'm asking for un opinion

Ben Price, Westbury
Yup al a bunch of hokus-pokus to me!

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