ALIGNMENTSLandscape Alignments have been variously described as ley lines, dragon paths, and song lines depending on the culture and location. The practice of geomancy concerns itself with directing or deflecting these currents of earth energy that affect our lives, both positively and geopathically.
Many of these alignments can be quite toxic if negatively impacted by events along its course - and conversely so. Alignments often follow fault lines and granite outcroppings. They contain associative Radon and other tuleric emissions. While these are beneficial in short exposures to health, they can cause cancerous growth with long term exposure, due to their exaggerated and focused stimulus.
Ley lines have a very specific patterns associated with them. Ley Lines can be dowsed and are traditionally associated with historic European megalithic sites. Alignments are spontaneously generated by nature and are visibly discerned. When culturalized, as was the case in England, alignments become ley lines.
An alignment typically comprises a synchronous pattern of similar features, natural and/or cultural, that coalesce in a linear pattern across town or around the planet. Ley energy while at times are 'Alignments', are not always visibly marked in the landscape. Ley energy is a dowseable linear phenomena that exists everywhere and considered the nerves of the living earth. There is much to the subtle quality of the unseen earth energies. Researchers have found ley lines in micro and macro scale. One such researcher ventured to say that if one were to draw all existing ley lines, on an area map, it would result in a map covered in graphite. So we can see how discernment and identification of the features are so necessary.
Geomancy is the study of the unseen earth. Alignments differ in that they can be identified coursing through mountain and vale, gorge and gap, highway and city in a line curving with the sphere of the earth. England and much of Europe had a highly developed megalithic system that utilized the tuleric energy of Ley Lines - thought to maintain fertility in animal and plant.
There also was a highly developed earth energy transmission system used throughout the ancient world. This system harnessed and utilized transmission leys, storage containers, control centers and receiver stations. Tools of megalithic culture, tuleric management: were standing stones, layered mounds, dolmens, calendar circles and human built building structures.
In the case of landscape alignments tuleric management is based on: mountains, geologic deposits, erosion patterns, fault lines, water features, celestial features, and often relate to unconsciously created human features.
Alignments, as I stated, are synchronous in nature. For example in New England there is an alignment of granite deposits that connects five granite out croppings created in different geologic periods.
A cultural example of an alignment can be seen connecting Tanta Egypt, Askalon and Jerusalem Israel, Amman Jordan, Bagdad, Kabul Afghanistan, and Kashmir India. Perhaps a suitable name for this might be : A Silk Road or Arabic Alignment. While important to life, alignments tend to be crucibles of one sort or another. Along these lines a spontaneous alchemical process occurs of a nature that defies simple explanation.
The above is a brief summation culled from thirty years of research and innumerable studies. Detailed information regarding Alignments and Leys can be found in my book Gaia Matrix.
Most social and environmental structures possess a spontaneously occurring alignment that speaks to memory ingrained into the community. These memories speak to its sense of place, state harmony, and potentiality.
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