Stonehenge

Stonehenge lives on ...

Stonehenge is a five thousand year old stone circle situated on Salisbury plain (UK) that to this day remains steeped in mystery and magic. This mystery and magic touches all who come to experience this spiritual monument, and throughout time, has retained a devoted following.This modern day devotion to the Stones peaked between 1974 and 1985 during which an annual Summer Solstice Festival was held in close proximity to the site. In 1985 this jamboree of free spirits was violently crushed by the extreme right wing government of the day and infamously entered the history books as the 'Battle of the Bean Field'. This heralded a decline of the free festival movement but not the end of the desire of many to pursue the right to assemble and express their empathy with this awesome  edifice.

Alternative nature of the Stonehenge solstice under more pressure as EH squeeze in burger stalls near the stones to cash in, as though they haven’t stolen enough off us already, where’s the balanced approach? Many of the regulars are vegetarian - WillyX 2005

HAS THE WHOLE COUNTRY’S GONE BLAIR SHAPED ?

Some people don’t realise that Stonehenge is in the middle of the largest concentration of military in the world. Military Wiltshire was set up after the government baled out the banks which were stuck with lots of repossessed land after the bankruptcy of lots of farmers in the area caught out during the depression (1920,s), also the military desire to be near the south coast to defend UK. How odd, a planetary chakra surrounded by a killing machine. But while harping on about ley-lines & chakras…..

Imagine the human body’s electrical circuit, as in acupuncture lines with its meridian junctions as well as chakras. Mother nature has a similar system but larger, with ley-lines & so called burial mound junctions as well as Big Energy Centres (chakras) all over the world, a large number of these sites were marked out by ancient humankind & are still, like the chakras of Mecca & Jerusalem or the Pyramids etc, jealously coveted & little understood, their real purpose often lost in time, as with human chakras the way the energy flows creates waves & troughs, I believe that Stonehenge temple of sun & moon had its low point when on new years eve 1899 at ten to midnight a stone fell, causing a letter to be published in the Times Newspaper which called upon the great & good of the day, to rally to the defence of the stones, restoration work of sorts followed & some stones put back up(read, John Michelle) this as far as I know, was the first serious maintenance for thousands of years, marking a major growth of interest in them that is still escalating. This is why I believe the Stonehenge chakra is steadily coming into its own time again. Maybe more restoration should take place; certainly quite a few of the stones could easily be put back up. Thereby improving the functions & equilibrium of the earth energy system, just like visiting an acupuncturist. Willy x.

Despite the spiel in the media about The Greeks starting the one & only Olympics at mount Olympus, There is plenty of evidence that Olympic type games were wide spread in ancient times & at Stonehenge The cursus was used for bare foot racing from woodhenge to Fargo plantation & back. Much later the roman’s added horse racing. As Britain is competing for the next Olympics this could be the time for ENGLISH HERITAGE. & NAT. TRUST to finally “after many years of requests” from the Stonehenge Campaign to remove the sewage works from the ancient cursus just _ a mile north of Stonehenge then perhaps bare foot racing could resume, though the grass might get smoked rather than trampled on. Willy x. (sorry about the spartian layout, we'll add a SPARTICUS sparcle later on).
WX June 1st 2005

June 1st 2005
20 years on from the Beanfield ambush, travellers attempted a get
together at Savernake Forest. They were moved on pretty sharpish by police (who thought there was going to be a rave), although a police rep. liased with them frequently, and made a personal – though not collective, of course - apology for the events of 1985. The night was subsequently spent in Cholderton woods. En route to the Stones a reunion picnic was enjoyed on land adjacent to the Beanfield (the actual site now absorbed by a road junction upgrade). The convoy arrived at the Stones early evening - eight vehicles with traditional police escort, who pulled into the car park. The last of the paying customers were attracted over by the reggae sounds and Heritage were persuaded to allow out of hours access to the Stones where there was much blowing of horns and recital of poems to mark the occasion.

A bit of rhetoric from Judge Maclaren Webster, when he overturned the convictions of Richard and Margaret by Salisbury Magistrates for being at the 10th anniversary demo at the stones on June 1st 1995. (They were then re-convicted by the Appeal Court before being cleared by the Lords ruling on assemblies.)Section 14A refers to the Public Order Act 1986 as amended by the CJA. "Each case turns upon its own facts and this one is a particular example of that. It will, perhaps, be sadly rare when no form of criminal conduct other than that which it is sought to catch by Section 14A will have been committed. It will also, perhaps, be sadly rare to find that tolerance, reason, patience and a degree of mutual respect and understanding characterises the relationships between Police and those assembled. Perhaps when it comes to the tenth Anniversary of the tenth Anniversary of the Battle of Beanfield it will be remembered that thanks to those characteristics I have sought to identify which amount to nothing more or less than realising the humanity of all those present, the 1st June 1995 was indeed a significant day in the development of the maintenance of Public Order around that great Monument.“ We want a memorial at the Battle of the Beanfield site and to clear the named thirteen from their high court injunction.
Taken from the "London Free Information Network" FIN newsletter June 2005

The Hobbits Are Back
Pixies, Elves, leprechauns and the fairies.The little People have been found. Scientists have confirmed that the little people discovered on the remote Indonesian island of Flores was most likely a new species of humans. Remains of the three foot creatures were in found in a cave alongside some tools and evidence of a fire. One, a female, is thought to have lived 18,000 years ago, when the island was home to tiny Elephants, giant lizards, komodo dragons and huge rats. Scientists revealed the new species of humans last October. Analysis of the brain cavities suggests that they were intelligent. Further discoveries of charred bone and stone tools on Flores, suggests that they lived there from about 95,000 years ago to at least 13,000 years ago. Though it hasn’t been ruled out that some still exists in the impenetrable forests of South East Asia.
Guardian and Independent – 04/03/05.

Ibogaine
The Pygmies of Gabon – (Tiny West African state)
Use it to induce deep memory release and a trance like state

Shine a light on it & in The clear light of day and it will show us the true picture…
STONEHENGE. AN OLD CINEMA? FLINTSTONES REGAL MOVIE SHOW

Let me recount an old secret, that i rediscovered, initiate……..
It is possible, one of the uses Stonehenge was put to, in ancient times was as a giant monolithic cinema by utilising the pinhole camera technique (camera obscura), thus creating the ancient cinema that turned into the modern cameras of today (before digital). More than once in the middle ages, a bright spark was burnt at the stake, for putting on a camera obscura cinema show. Notably once in Christian Rome, it was declared witchcraft. The method was developed in tents & benders in ancient times, whence a shaft of bright light enters through a pin hole, in the cover & upon reaching the other side of the dark tent, is met by a taught circle of leather that has been turned white with chalk, (screen) perhaps held by a shaman. On the screen a clear picture would appear of exactly what was happening outside the structure, but upside down. So you can imagine the spectacle, of say the ancient coming of age, initiating people into the sciences, when young people would take their first mushroom trip & be allowed into the structure on midsummer’s sunrise, to watch the cinema in awe for 45 minutes; as jugglers, stilt walkers acrobats, friends relatives & tribal members, all appeared live on screen. I presume this international ancient practice Would involve the majority of people outside the cinema forming a sort of oval, with the performers in the middle, this would have blown peoples minds & strengthened their system. But wot wonders I, were the shows like & did you see… the life giving light, penetrating the longing dark hole & creating a wonder. WX 3.6.2005. From an idea I had in 2002. (To turn the stones into a 45-minute sunrise cinema. The ancients would have had to turn it into a temporary tent. As Stonehenge had & has many other uses). I suggest that, letting people into the cinemas limited seats, was an initiation right in the ancient world. Many sites & temples etc the world over are aligned to the solstice sunrise. A thought, “its easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get to heaven” (ancient saying past down via the bible). Well with camera obscura its simple for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle…its jimmy riddle time willyx@willyx.com.
Ps. good camera obscura’s can be seen. At the Greenwich meridian observatory, in London. Or more famously at Edinborough Scotland. Or why not make one. Written permission is needed to reprint this article.|
WX 06/01/05

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