This book is a search for a magical technology: the elusive 'earth energies' connected with standing stones and other sacred sites. As Tom Graves puts it, "it is a study in ideas, an attempt to put some of the ideas that have arisen in the 'earth mysteries' field into a coherent shape or form, to place them in a context that makes practical sense at the present time".
Combining original research in dowsing with a review of many diffeerent aspects of the sites – from archaeology to geomancy and magic, from physics to ghost-hunting and parapsychology – the book shows that we need to look at them not so much in terms of the past, but in the effects and reality of those earth-energies now. It ends with a call for a re-assessment of the pagan view of reality, to see where its experience can be of value in our present over-civilised world.
This on-line edition of Needles of Stone is based on the second edition, published by Gothic Image in 1986, and includes that edition's additional chapter on developments in the 1980s, including a summary of the important Dragon Project research and its implications for our future.
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Author's Note for on-line edition Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Dowsing and Archaeology Chapter 3: As Below, So Above Chapter 4: Sinuous and Straight Chapter 5: Needles of Stone Chapter 6: Ghosts and Ghouls Chapter 7: Magicians Chapter 8: Angels and Demons Chapter 9: The Return of Paganism Chapter 10: Healing the Land Chapter 11: A Reality For The Future Postscript to second edition |
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