Just one week after the summer solstice, I sit in the middle of Stonehenge staring up at the huge megaliths. Our guide is Freddy Silva, a worldwide expert on crop circles, sacred temples and stone circles and author of several groundbreaking books, including Secrets of the Fields, The Divine Blueprint and The Missing Lands. Freddy explains that the Stonehenge site is much older than had been previously thought and that it was created by a group of tall master-builders who brought their knowledge of temple building over from Egypt.
He shows us photos of a fossilised ‘giant’ nine feet tall. He talks about the demise of the lost continent of Atlantis in a massive flood in 9700BC when sea levels rose by 120 metres and how the survivors from Atlantis sailed to Europe, Egypt and Central America and built pyramids and temples encoded with advanced mathematical formulae and sacred geometry, with astrological and astronomical alignments mirroring major constellations and preserving hidden secrets in the landscape and stones.
We listen in awe and later in the evening many of the group report flashbacks to past life experiences and pillars of purple and white light stretching skywards or simply feeling grounded, healed and recharged. The same thing happens at Avebury, at Wells Cathedral, at Glastonbury Abbey, at the Cerne Abbas well and at the numerous mountain-top churches, stone circle and holy wells we visit on our quest to discover the real secret behind sacred sites.
Portals
Sacred sites have traditionally been regarded as places of power containing subtle energies that alter our state of awareness and act as portals to other dimensions. They are built on the earth’s magnetic nodes – points on the globe where information can be channelled from the land and the stars. In the 1970s, experiments with electronic devices at stone circles, pyramids and temples clearly show how the local electromagnetic field is significantly altered at these sites. Because the human body is electromagnetic, every cell emits a frequency. Therefore, coming into contact with an altered electromagnetic field influences our cellular structure.
Altered Brainwaves
When Russian scientists measured the brainwaves of people inside Gothic cathedrals and Egyptian pyramids, they noticed an interesting influence, particularly on right-brain activity, the part of the brain that deals with creative and intuitive processes. For example when they monitored EEG (electroencephalogram) brainwave patterns inside the nave of Chartres cathedral in France they discovered that the building's special harmonics had a noticeable effect on peoples' states of awareness. When combined with Gregorian chant, people's brainwaves went up by as much as 4000% above normal waking state.
Schumann Resonance
In 1952 the German scientist W. O. Schumann, discovered the presence of a natural radio signal resonating as a standing wave around our planet within the earth/ionosphere cavity and beating with a pulse of 7.83 Hz. This signal is now known as the "Schumann Resonance". When we are in natural environments, away from cities, this is our body’s natural frequency and it has a profound healing effect inducing a state of calm and receptivity. In urban environments other frequencies override this resonance putting our body into a more chaotic state of being. The natural frequencies of places such as Delphi, Stonehenge, and the Great Pyramid at Giza are also 7.8 Hz. This is also the dominant brainwave frequency of those working as shamans and healers.
Supernatural to Geopolitical
Freddy explains to us that according to his research, around 2400BC a change began to take place in many parts of the earth as these sacred monuments, constructed as direct links to the spirit world came to the attention of a few unscrupulous individuals. Prior to this period people had worked with the life-affirming laws of nature: cooperation and the greater good of the tribe. They were more sensitive to the forces that surrounded and permeated the physical world, and better attuned to its subtleties.
2400 BC marked the beginning of the Age of Aries; weather patterns changed, the sea levels rose and a gradual shift took place from earth and nature based consciousness to hierarchical and power based consciousness. The Age of Aries is the period of the rise of ancient empires; Chinese, Greek and then Roman. Each of these civilisations sought to bring more land and territory under their control by conquering the indigenous peoples of the lands by force as they expanded ever outward. Each one of these civilisations had as its leader, a central figure in a far-off capital and was controlled by the military. Thus the power of communing with the supernatural was gradually removed from individuals.
Priests once entrusted with the responsibility of working with subtle energies, believed themselves to be more important than the temples and sites themselves and began to manipulate the energy of the sites unleashing a global chain reaction and paving the way for centralised power. Because the temples were designed as analogs of the Earth, misuse of energy collected at the sites released sympathetic resonances that triggered all kinds of geological and ecological catastrophes across the planet. But the effects were not just physical, they were also biological: for the next 4500 years, humanity experienced a gradual disconnection with the Earth, a loss of intimacy with the invisible spiritual world and a shift towards the material world. You can read more about this series of events at Freddy Silva's site www.invisibletemple.com
But what exactly is this subtle energy and where does it reside?
Rollright Stone Circle
According to Michael Howard in his book ‘Earth Mysteries’, geomagnetic surveys at the Rollright stone circle complex in South West England show how the local magnetic field collects into the circle in a spiral flow. A person standing at the site can feel as though they are being drawn down a vortex into Earth’s energy field. The types of stone used at Rollright and other sacred sites contain high amounts of quartz which is programmable by electromagnetic frequencies. In ‘The Dragon Project’ a group of scientists used infra red and ultra sonic instruments to measure the magnetic field under Rollright and found that it fluctuated with the phases of the moon. Sometimes the charge was so powerful that people were thrown backwards when dowsing and the infra red instruments used on the spring and autumn equinoxes revealed images of the top of the King Stone emanating an aura of light.
I found it interesting that three members of our tour group had the digital photos they took at Stonehenge wiped from their memory cards. The photos taken before and after our Stonehenge visit were not affected!
Magnetomer survey image of the Rollright Stone CIrcle.
Charles Brooker. Magnetism and Standing Stones, New Scientist, January 1983
© Freddy Silva / Ancient Origins
It would seem that somehow these sacred sites and temples were designed as energy storage devices to help humans renew, recharge and reconnect. An ancient long-forgotten technology now being brought back into consciousness, by researchers such as Freddy Silva.
Sacred Songlines
In Australia we are incredibly fortunate to have access to the 65,000 year old unbroken wisdom of our own indigenous people who have never severed their connection to the psychic and spirit world and who understand that the spirit is in the land. In fact, a central concept of Aboriginal Australian culture is that people and land are one.
Bruce Chatwin’s book The Songlines describes how language started as song, and how, in the Dreamtime, the land was sung into existence. He writes: “And it struck me, that the whole of Western classical mythology might represent the relics of a gigantic 'song-map': that all the to-ing and fro-ing of gods and goddesses, the caves, temples and sacred springs, the sphinxes and chimaeras, and all the men and women who became nightingales or ravens, echoes or narcissi, stones or stars – could all be interpreted in terms of totemic geography."
