earth energy – Notes from the Far Beyond

Shining Land

Primeval Guardian, Pordenack Point, Cornwall

We’re starting a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production and printing of my book ‘Shining Land – the ancient sites of West Penwith and what they tell us about megalithic civilisation‘.

I’m really happy about this. Though I’m not bad at self-promotion, something in me dislikes it, and I’m doubly happy that some good friends have taken it on themselves to do this. To me, it suggests that the universe might be wanting this to happen.

You see, it’s not just because it’s my own book that’s getting published. Been there, done that. It’s the ideas inside. They are not generally accepted today – and this has been the story for me and for many, or all, other geomancers for too many decades.

In the book I propose an entirely different view about the meaning of ancient sites. I might not be correct in every detail, but the gist of what I am saying needs full and proper consideration. This will take time, and perhaps a new generation.

What am I saying? Well, previous postings give good tasters, and the book and an ample website are already available online, here…

www.palden.co.uk/shiningland/

It all starts from a simple observation. When you enter an ancient site you are entering a concentrated and consecrated energy-field. And you come out changed. This is not accidental.

I guess it’s a book of clues for a future time. A time when we address the matter of repairing the damaged energy-fields of our planet. It uses West Penwith (where I live) as an example of how this works.

I don’t have all the answers – this is the task of the coming decades, and I won’t be here to join in. But this book contains some fizzly keys and clues that might help. It moves things forward an inch. It’s all to do with energy-fields.

I’m glad it will come out in print. Thanks particularly to Rob, Rachel and Kai for what they are doing – and all other supporters too. It brings a big smile to my face!

Please permit me to invite you to contribute toward the print-publication of this book. It’s all here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shininglandbook/the-shining-land

With love, Palden

Belerion

Belerion – the Shining Land
West Penwith as a Landscape Temple
Weds 18th December 2024
At The Hive, Penzance, Cornwall.

This is for people living in or near Cornwall. Audio recordings of the talk, with accompanying material, will appear online a week or so after the talk, for those who cannot attend.

In my talk in June about the ancient sites of West Penwith (worth a listen) I proposed that the whole of Penwith is one big ancient site – an enormous cliff sanctuary. It’s not just a scattering of stone circles, quoits, carns, menhirs and cairns. Why did ancient Penwithians bother to build so much of this ‘holy machinery’? What was their thinking and what did they seek to achieve?

I’ve been studying ancient sites since around 1970 in Britain, Scandinavia, Greece and Palestine. Since moving to Penwith in 2009, I’ve been working on mapping Penwith’s sites, researching their (John Michell-style) alignments, and divining some valuable psychic-intuitive clues concerning their possible meaning and function. These observations are outlined on the Ancient Penwith website and in my book Shining Land.

In the first half of this evening’s talk, I go further into the sacred energy-technology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Penwithians, and the patterns that suggest that they function as one big megalithic system. We’ll look into how it all took shape from the beginning, the functions of different kinds of ancient sites, and how it all fits together into one big geomantic system.

In the second half I propose what I feel needs to happen next, in terms of researching and working with Penwith’s ancient sites. We need to find out more about how they actually work, geomantically and energetically, and what we can do now to enhance and re-enliven their energy-fields and world-healing qualities – not just an hour-long ceremony now and then, but sustained energy-work, learning more about the specifics of how to do it.

Penwith is an ideal area for this kind of work because it is concise and contained, with plenty of ancient sites and people interested in them. Also, this is Cornwall, not England, and Oxbridge-style archaeological thinking is not the only way to understand megalithic civilisation – here in Penwith, out of sight and out of mind, we have an opportunity to frame things in a rather different way.

There is the possibility of starting a research project involving 10-20 people, in which (say) about forty local sites are surveyed, mapped and chronicled by dowsers and sensitives over (say) a three year period, for their subtle energy characteristics and place-memory. (See below for a shortlist of sites.)

Steadily and systematically, we can visit the sites and truly listen to what they want to say – not imposing our own ideas and predilections but letting the sites and the landscape speak, using methods such as pendulums, meditation, inner journeying and talking stick as research methodologies. Then a report (or a series of them) or a website can report on the findings uncovered by the project.

So I’m wondering out loud whether we need now to take things further, stepping beyond a ‘Wow’ stage to try realistically to penetrate the minds of the Neolithic and Bronze Age megalith builders, to uncover more about ancient sites’ energy-mechanics, their intention and usage, and what we can do about them now. That’s what this evening is all about and, if you can, you’re welcome to come and join in.

Full details are here: http://www.palden.co.uk/ahanotes-penwith.html

With love, Palden.

Decline of the Goddess Cultures of Ancient Britain

Godrevy Head and Lighthouse from St Ives, Cornwall, with St Agnes Beacon behind

Here’s one of my podtalks, recorded in early August, Lughnasa, at the Oak Dragon Camp in Somerset.

It’s all about our prehistory in Britain, and how and why people built ancient sites, and their advanced shamanic-magical culture, and sympathetic, sustainable societies, and the creation of gods and religion, and a few other wee matters such as these.

A sweep over the megalithic periods of the Neolithic and Bronze ages. 90 mins.

It’s to be found on Spotify here
or on my site at www.palden.co.uk/podtalks.html

Especially good for when driving boring motorways and ironing endless socks and underpants, or as withdrawal therapy from the BBC.

With love, Paldywan