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Andy B
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|  Posted 13-11-2003 at 15:20
Last Friday the 7th November we drove down from Cambridge to Bridgwater for the annual Carnival. I was accompanied by my partner of 2 years, Joyce. My Wife died in February 1998 after 33 years of marriage, I met Joyce after some friends introduced us. Joyce comes from Halifax originally but has lived in Cambridge for some 14 years now. But she is a very down to earth, proud, Yorkshirewoman and an extremely good listener, who seems to empathise with all the people she meets.
Apart from a childhood visit to Stonehenge with her parents, she has never visited any form of prehistoric site, read any books on the subject of 'earth mysteries', or thought very much about such arcane concepts of our past. I on the other hand, have been visiting sites and reading such publications for the last 30 years. But Joyce did not know that.
We spent the Sunday in Glastonbury, first climbing the Tor, then exploring the town and it's shops.
Monday we set off for home from the friendly Pub we had stayed at in West Pennard. I drove us to Avebury where we stopped for coffee at the Red Lion. Then we put our boots on and walked into the Northern part of the bank and circle. Joyce was totally amazed at what she saw, never having experienced anything quite like it in all her 54 years. We walked around the rim then at the Kennett Avenue side we walked into the centre of the circle. Suddenly Joyce stopped by the 'Devils Chair' stone and said "wow it's really quiet on this side" - then as she moved to some of the smaller central stones - "whats happening? my right wrist and hand is really tingling, now I've got a strong headache" I asked her what was wrong, she looked at me and started to cry very softly, then sobbed "I don't know, I just feel very emotional all of a sudden, I just feel like crying"
This reaction did not surprise me as I have long since thought that Joyce is a 'sensitive' person in terms of reaction to 'atmosphere' in buildings we have visited together.
Joyce was suddenly overcome with the same feelings as we started walking down Kennett Avenue.
Now at this time Joyce knew virtually nothing about Megaliths, henges, etc. She was truly experiencing a circle for the first time. She went with a truly open mind, just the surprise of our stopping off at Avebury. No bias from reading about it, we had not discussed any form of Earth Mysteries, but we have now of course. That innocence is already gone - but the sensitivity is still there, of that I am certain.
I wonder if with her open, clear mind, did the stones speak to her? What a wonderful moment for me to witness - a precious few minutes for us to share - perhaps we all need to keep our minds clear from residual interference & bias from our readings over the years.
Was Joyce, an innocent in tune with the stones?
Malcolm Osborn
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DavidRaven
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|  Posted 13-11-2003 at 17:57
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On 2003-11-13 15:20, Andy B wrote:
... perhaps we all need to keep our minds clear from residual interference & bias from our readings over the years.
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That sounds like very good advice! Good job I don't know much! 
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| Posted 20-11-2003 at 18:59
Hi Malcolm!
It's wonderful that your Joyce is sensitive to the Earth energies, although as she demontrated it can be quite overwhelming if you've not experienced it before. I have had different manifestations of this sensitivity. The Ring of Brodgar in the Orknies gives me an all-over upper body warmth, almost like an adrenaline rush (!). I visited Stonehenge for the first time this year and almost imediately on entering I had the same experience as a womb feeling (!). I can quite easily detect my "own" stone
through the warm, tingling sensation it produces in my hands. Joyce is lucky to have you to help make sense of this energy, and hopefully she can learn in time to accpet this energy and utilise it.
All good wishes for your joint future.
Cicely
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| Posted 02-07-2005 at 13:17
This is my first cruise through this message board and what a super gift - I am not potty after all and others have felt that same warm buzz I picked up in Stonehenge very early one damp morning a few years ago; a lovely though intense warm buzz from hand to shoulder through the arm nearest the stones. Thinking it odd and perhaps an electrical short in the ground I walked around the path a second time and closed my eyes as I neared the particular place - and experienced that same sensation again.
Noting where I was in relation to the stones, and looking for an explaination later, I found that I may have experienced that sensation on the Lay line through Stonehenge.
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| Posted 02-07-2005 at 17:11
What a heart warming and moving story/experience. When I moved to the West Country last year I too had no idea what was about to happen. I had never visited a megalith site but with Stonehenge, Avebury, Stanton Drew and so on all on my door step A visit was inevitable. I visited Stonehenge first and though I was awed and moved, I did not feel anything beyond my ken as it were.
I next visited Avebury and with no real purpose in mind took the route recommended by the National Trust, beginning in the NW Sector. I began walking in all my normal worldly selfhood, just a little me walking and looking at and touching the stones. By the time I got to the Swindon stone they had my attention, nothing special but definitely focussed. I crossed the road to the Cove and was now fully engaged, still just me but right in there.
When I got round to the Portal stones I decided to sit in the 'chair' and just try to think about what on Earth this fantastic site was. As soon as I sat my stomach lurched and I got sick and dizzy. Why I wasn't freaked out I cannot say, but I decided to sit with the feeling. I lasted about ten minutes and then I felt the voice of Avebury say to me, 'Wecome home'.
Whatever happened there I knew I would never be the same again. As I drove away, some miles out, I felt the magic fade and was desolate and resolved to go back as soon as I possibly could. I got home and cried as I have never cried before, and have many times since, as the magic keeps affecting and changing me. It was after my second visit I called the energy the "Earthsong". The rest, as regulars to the Portal will know, is history. I have found my home on Earth, the Southern Inner Circle being my special place with the 'Receptors'. I understand what Joyce went through, and am truly delighted for her, and wish her, and all the rest of you stone huggers, megalith nuts, dowsers, and Uncle Tom Cobblies and all, the deepest joy always.
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| Posted 03-07-2005 at 22:55
I too feel a strange sense of depression after leaving stones. Depression is not really the right word, maybe loss or grief would be better. Not so much a mental thing as a physical wrench.
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| Posted 04-09-2005 at 00:56
My partner and I have just taken guardianship of an old farmhouse in central Brittany. It is 50 meters from a standing stone and in the middle of a triangulation of two other stones, an ancient well and a prehistoric camp. The house was waiting for us and the pull to return is like a physical ache. The stones of central Brittany are overlooked and in the process of being vandalised maybe after the showing of the French TV drama Dolmen. There was a call being made by the land and we took action to answer it. I am sure there are many places like this awaiting a guardian to work with.
Brittany is a place I have known and loved before and have been called back to. I swear the house made us buy it!! And we have work to do.
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On 2003-11-13 15:20, Andy B wrote:
Last Friday the 7th November we drove down from Cambridge to Bridgwater for the annual Carnival. I was accompanied by my partner of 2 years, Joyce. My Wife died in February 1998 after 33 years of marriage, I met Joyce after some friends introduced us. Joyce comes from Halifax originally but has lived in Cambridge for some 14 years now. But she is a very down to earth, proud, Yorkshirewoman and an extremely good listener, who seems to empathise with all the people she meets.
Apart from a childhood visit to Stonehenge with her parents, she has never visited any form of prehistoric site, read any books on the subject of 'earth mysteries', or thought very much about such arcane concepts of our past. I on the other hand, have been visiting sites and reading such publications for the last 30 years. But Joyce did not know that.
We spent the Sunday in Glastonbury, first climbing the Tor, then exploring the town and it's shops.
Monday we set off for home from the friendly Pub we had stayed at in West Pennard. I drove us to Avebury where we stopped for coffee at the Red Lion. Then we put our boots on and walked into the Northern part of the bank and circle. Joyce was totally amazed at what she saw, never having experienced anything quite like it in all her 54 years. We walked around the rim then at the Kennett Avenue side we walked into the centre of the circle. Suddenly Joyce stopped by the 'Devils Chair' stone and said "wow it's really quiet on this side" - then as she moved to some of the smaller central stones - "whats happening? my right wrist and hand is really tingling, now I've got a strong headache" I asked her what was wrong, she looked at me and started to cry very softly, then sobbed "I don't know, I just feel very emotional all of a sudden, I just feel like crying"
This reaction did not surprise me as I have long since thought that Joyce is a 'sensitive' person in terms of reaction to 'atmosphere' in buildings we have visited together.
Joyce was suddenly overcome with the same feelings as we started walking down Kennett Avenue.
Now at this time Joyce knew virtually nothing about Megaliths, henges, etc. She was truly experiencing a circle for the first time. She went with a truly open mind, just the surprise of our stopping off at Avebury. No bias from reading about it, we had not discussed any form of Earth Mysteries, but we have now of course. That innocence is already gone - but the sensitivity is still there, of that I am certain.
I wonder if with her open, clear mind, did the stones speak to her? What a wonderful moment for me to witness - a precious few minutes for us to share - perhaps we all need to keep our minds clear from residual interference & bias from our readings over the years.
Was Joyce, an innocent in tune with the stones?
Malcolm Osborn
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