Spirit Roads, Exploring Otherworldly Routes in the Old and New Worlds - Paul Devereux

Collins & Brown, 2007. Note: This is a re-print of Paul's book "Fairy Paths & Spirit Roads" from 2003

An important and unique work that provides authentic, deeply-researched geographical information on features such as Irish fairy paths, British corpse roads, Dutch death roads, Aborigine "songlines", and Pre-Columbian shamans' routes in the Americas. It is a guidebook to the spiritual geographies of the pre-modern world. The first part of the book, Background, provides succinct chapters on the nature of the various kinds of "otherworldly routes" covered by the book, and the second part, Foreground, is a Sampler of examples of the whole range of routes, with location and access information provided. Whether an armchair traveller or someone who likes to get out and about "in the field", this unique study and guide will fascinate you. Whole new insights are revealed about the land-based spirituality of the past.

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The Traveller's Guide to Sacred England: A Guide to the Legends, Lore and Landscape of England's Sacred Places - John Michell

350 pages, Paperback, Gothic Image Publications 2003

There are many good guidebooks to England and its various regions and aspects, and this one is not intended as a rival to any of the others. Its aim is to provide a quietly informative companion to those travellers seeking the ancient spirit of the land. Here the renowned expert on sacred places takes us on an unforgettable journey to ruined abbeys and cathedrals, pagan sites and megalithic temples, shrines of saints and visionaries, holy wells, island sanctuaries, and to a host of other places where peace and sanctity are almost tangible. Some of them are famous, others quiet and secluded, but all are centres of spiritual energy and renewal.

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Sacred Places Around the World - Brad Olsen

Published by Consortium of Collective Consciousness, 1st edition, 2000, 240 pages

World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Important archaeological, historical, and geological destinations worldwide are profiled, from the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Forbidden City in China to the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and Mount Shasta in California. Sites are described in historical and cultural context, and practical contemporary travel information is provided, including detailed maps, drawings, photographs, and travel directions.

Olsen's marvelous drawings and maps enhance a package that is wonderfully accessible. - SF Examiner

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Sacred Places: North America: 108 Destinations - Brad Olsen

1st Edition Published by Consortium of Collective Consciousness, 2003

This comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.

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Ley Lines, The Greatest Landscape Mystery - Danny Sullivan

Paperback, published by Green Magic 2004. Size 235 x 155mm

All across the world sacred sites are linked together by mysterious alignments on the landscape. Nowhere has this phenomenon been more thoroughly investigated than in the British Isles where they have come to be known as Ley Lines. First discovered in modern times by the legendary Alfred Watkins who first coined the term, they have been rigorously studied over the last fifty years. This revised and updated edition of the classic study by Danny Sullivan, the last editor of the Ley Hunter, is the most comprehensive guide to the subject ever published. Contains a directory of over 50 leys that you can explore for yourself. Fully illustrated. Previously available in Hardback

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The Avalonians - Patrick Benham

Paperback, 286pp. Gothic Image pb 1993
Lives and times of a most unusual and influential group of people who were drawn to Glastonbury early in the 20th Century, and became involved in a series of strange events. The interlaced stories include geomancer Frederick Bligh Bond, medium Wellesley Tudor Pole (founder of the Chalice Well Trust) and famous occultist 'Dion Fortune' [Violet Firth].

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Markings. Aerial Photos by Marilyn Bridges

Publisher: Aperture, 1990, 104 pages, Paperback, 9"x11" landscape, b&w throughout

A portfolio of aerial photographs depicting the Nazca lines in Peru, the sacred pyramids left by the Maya, the Native Americans' enigmatic earth-works and the colossal standing stones of prehistoric Britain.

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Megalithomania: Artists, Antiquarians and Archaeologists at the Old Stone Monuments - John Michell

168 pages, The Squeeze Press, April 2007

A new paperback edition of this classic book. A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones. John Mitchell tells the wonderful story of the reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.

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Meetings With Remarkable Trees - Thomas Pakenham

Paperback, 256 pages, Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated; New Ed edition Oct 2001, Size 19.4 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm

A beautiful book with wonderful photographs of trees from all around the world. The author has chosen sixty trees that are in some way remarkable - for their age, their size or their personality.

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Sacred Places - Crispin Paine

Paperback, 126pp. The National Trust, 2004.

Sacred Places provides an inspiring illustrated guide to some of the most beautiful and atmospheric locations in the care of the National Trust. The featured sites are illustrated by high-quality photographs and artworks revealing key alignments and underlying structure and design, along with extended captions explaining their particular significance and history. A detailed map shows the distribution of the various sites across the UK and the suggested link between some of them, providing a practical guide for the visitor as well as an inspirational sourcebook. Featured sites include: Avebury; The Fame Islands; Glastonbury Tor; Hailes Abbey; The Lake District; Lavenham Guildhall; Sandham Memorial Chapel; The Giant's Causeway; St Michael's Mount; Sutton Hoo; and White Horse Hill, Uffington.

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Sacred Places: Prehistory and Popular Imagination - Bob Trubshaw

Publisher: Heart of Albion, May 2005. 245 x 175 mm, 220 pages, 43 b&w illustrations and 7 line drawings, Paperback

Sacred Places asks why certain types of prehistoric places are thought of as sacred, and explores how the physical presence of such sacred sites is less important than what these places signify. So this is not another guide book to sacred places but instead provides a unique and thought-provoking guide to the mental worlds - the mindscapes - in which we have created the idea of prehistoric sacred places.

Recurring throughout this book is the idea that we continually create and re-create our ideas about the past, about landscapes, and the places within those landscapes that we regard as sacred. For example, although such concepts as 'nature', 'landscape', 'countryside', 'rural' and the contrast between profane and sacred are all part of our everyday thinking, in this book Bob Trubshaw shows they are all modern cultural constructions which act as the 'unseen' foundations on which we construct more complex myths about places.

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The Old Straight Track - Alfred Watkins

The Classic Book on Ley Lines. Paperback, 234pp. Abacus, 2004 reprint

First published in 1925 and out of print for many years, this remains the most important source for the study of the ancient straight tracks or leys that cross the British Isles. Watkins was "An honest visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time."

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