The real supernatural.

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David at Stonehenge.

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The most well-known ancient monument in my home Country is Stonehenge, on Sailsbury Plain. Let us disregard all mystical, religious, astronomical, astrological, etc., etc. considerations and ask merely:

"What factors motivated the workforce?"

Let me restate the question in a modern day context: Imagine that you have just arrived home after a hard day at work. Waiting at your door is a small group of people who want to you to sign-up for their project. Their 'wonderful opportunity' consists of you spending the rest of your life hauling very large and heavy stones. On the plus side: There is no pay, no holidays, no pension, no insurance, no hope of promotion and a very short life expectancy. Let's face it, there's nothing that would persuade you to spend the rest of your life hauling massive boulders around. So, what was it that motivated our distant ancestors to? Life, 4000 years ago, in Bronze Age England was very, very hard. The architects of Stonehenge did not have at their disposal the vast range of complex and compelling sales techniques available to modern door-to-door salesmen: They didn't even have writing! Nor was there any machinery available to lessen the workload and speed the process.

When construction of Stonehenge started, the population of Southern England was scattered in small, remote villages of perhaps a couple of hundred individuals at most. Indeed, a major factor in the survival of Stonehenge is the scarcity of people living in the immediate area. The stones have neither been incorporated into the landscape or stolen to provide bricks for other structures. Even if these isolated communities were aware of each other, communication between them would have been sporadic and infrequent. There was not even a rudimentary system of regional control in force; be this secular or religious. It was pretty much a case of every village for its self.

The completion of Stonehenge must have taken generations to complete. The amount of back breaking labour which must have gone into the project is staggering. What could possibly have motivated hundreds, if not thousands of individuals to devote their entire lives to the erection of a pile of stones in the middle of nowhere? You wouldn't sign-up, so why would your ancestors? Furthermore, any system government (even if it had been in place) that attempted to make participation in the construction mandatory would be soon out of power. Even the most fervent religious appeal to our better instincts would fall on deaf ears and be ignored.

The only possible means by which an individual could be persuaded to join such an immense undertaking would be to demonstrate an immediate and profound benefit to that individual. A benefit that must, by far, outweigh the burden of construction.

In the few remaining corners of this planet not yet contaminated by progress, the survival techniques employed by the indigenous population border on supernatural. 4000 years ago (and longer) it would be expected that the majority of people would be in possession of very similar survival techniques. However, as humanity grew from its nomadic, hunter-gatherer roots into larger, geographically fixed and complex systems based on animal husbandry and farming, our need to communicate intimately and directly with the planet was lost. The skills required to do this were no longer passed from generation to generation and became latent.

Planet Earth is essentially a large magnet surrounded by electromagnetic forces. In the U.K., Sensitives have plotted the fluctuations in these fields and have called them 'Lay Lines.' Ancient monuments are lined up along the paths of these. Even the most inexperienced individual will quickly discover that with the aid of a Dowsing Rod (aerial) he, or she can detect these energy fluctuations for themselves. Where Lay Lines cross each other, the fluctuation in electromagnetic field density is not doubled, it is squared. At the intersection of several Lay Lines the field density must have been incredibly powerful. It is almost impossible to describe what this must have felt like for a person standing precisely on the crossing point. I can only speculate it to be of similar intensity to a prolonged orgasm. The experience would certainly never be forgotten, and could be repeated simply by standing in the same place. Another immediate benefit would be 'tourism.' Individuals would travel from far and wide to sample the experience for themselves. The sales-pitch goes along the lines of:
Stonehenge salesman: "Stand here sir."
B A N G ! ! !
Stonehenge salesman: "You can have that experience, free, anytime you like. And, other people will pay you -forever- to experience it for them self. Wanna sign-up?"
Potential stone hauler: "Wow! Yeah... Gimme a pen. Can I do it again... Right now?"

However, as time passed and the onset of civilization dulled the senses required to appreciate the effect; it must have been noticed that the sensation wasn't as good as it had once been. On bad days the effect must have been almost negligible. As the intensity of experience dwindled it became necessary to pinpoint the exact location with a physical reminder.

The stones of Stonehenge serve three purposes:

1.. They serve as a physical prompt to the specific location of a 'special place.'
2.. They are an attempt to focus, amplify and store the -seemingly- dwindling energy source.
3.. They are aligned to planetary motion and have been appointed a religious significance.

As far as we are aware, there has never been a 'Super Dog.' I mean, a dog that has changed the course of its entire species. Nor do we have any accounts of animals constructing monuments (however this may manifest) to an abstract concept. It is a most curious anomaly of mankind that he alone developed the concept of 'God(s).' Indeed, and even more singular is the curious statistic that each and every tribe, settlement and race, regardless of geographic location or chronological placement developed its own concept of and ideas about God. Even in today's scientifically ratified and revolutionized society, the God business is a global industry.

Did each group independently develop its own ideas, or do they all derive from a common source? What gave us such ideas in the first place? How did these ideas begin? And why do all religious and mythological legends state that the Gods come from the sky and will one day return? Furthermore, as our understanding of ancient cultures and mythology increases, it is becoming clear that these were obsessed with time. Not just terrestrial time, but vast clock of precessional time. Even Christian mythology is crammed full of processional references and allusions. One notable, if much misunderstood example of this is the following:

[Notes: Due to an effect called Precession, the position of the sun at the vernal equinox drifts slowly through the signs of the zodiac. Currently it rises between Pisces and Aquarius (Hence the expression: the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.) Each 'Age' lasts approximately 2160 years. It takes just short of 26,000 years to complete a full cycle. The sequence of zodiac signs runs:
...Gemini...Taurus...Aries...Pisces...Aquarius...]

When Moses climbed down from Mount Sinia with the new Word of God, he was horrified to find his people worshipping a golden calf. In precessional terms, the sun, having spent the last 2,000 years in Aries, was about to move into Pisces (heralding a New Age.) Indeed, many of the legends and motifs associated with Jesus and Christianity are associated with fish. The worship of a golden bull (Taurus) was clearly a retrogression and a misunderstanding of the precessional effect. Had Moses returned from the mountain to find his people worshipping a silver fish, he probably wouldn't have been so miffed.