Several hundred megalithic stone monuments exist today in Europe and Great Britain. Most of them are believed to have been built between 3500 and 1000 B.C. Stonehenge ranks first in fame among these monuments, and has long been a focal point for inexplicable phenomena. In her book, Stonehenge (1987), author Bonnie gaunt asserts that “Psychics have testified to unearthly experiences in the presence of the stones; and so have skeptics. Age-old folklore has endowed the stones with mystic powers to move of their own accord, to whisper, to impregnate the barren, to heal the sick, and to hex the wicked.” What kind of subtle force could be responsible for these and other paranormal experiences associated with Stonehenge? Could disturbances in the etheric field cause such varied phenomena? More likely than not, our theory of the powers residing in the transcendental realms needs to be developed further.

No one knows for certain who built the Stonehenge monument, nor does anyone know precisely how the stones came to be erected on the barren Salisbury Plain in Southwest England where they now stand. Stonehenge (1987) draws our attention to the fact that, if ancient methods were used, “The number of men and man-hours that were required to find, transport, cut, dress, and erect those massive stones is indeed staggering to the imagination.” However, tales of Stonehenge’s construction do not mention crews of masons and beasts of burden. Instead, the stories predominantly identify levitation as the method by which the stones were erected. Some say that the devil levitated the stones; others attribute the flight of the megaliths to the magic of the sorcerer Merlin. Levitation has long been reported in the East as one of the mysterious powers, or siddhis, associated with extended periods of yoga and meditation practice. Group chanting has also been reputed to effect levitation in some cases. Recent discoveries in relation to the phenomenon known as “vortices,” most notably with regard to the little known “Hutchison effect,” makes the levitation hypothesis even more plausible. More on this later.

The tale of Merlin and the “Giant’s Dance,” as Stonehenge once was called, appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History Of The Kings Of Britain (1136). Details concerning this work can be found in Mystic Places (1987), as can the following quote about Britain’s famous conjurer: “According to Merlin, a vanished race of Irish giants had carried the magical stones from distant Africa. Water poured over the stones acquired healing properties, and the giants treated their battle wounds with confections of herbs mixed with the magical waters.” If Merlin knew of the giants, then some of them might have contributed to the lineage of his contemporaries. The story of the giant bones discovered in the tomb marked with King Arthur’s name in the Bigfoot section above ought to be re-examined in light of these “Irish giants.” The healing properties acquired by water poured over the “magical” stones might be attributed to some sort of magnetic or etheric effect. Let us continue to pursue the origins of this mysterious force.

“Earth energy” is another name for the magical power associated with the megaliths of Britain, and the existence of this energy has been experimentally verified by at least one Stonehenge visitor. His story also appears in Mystic Places (1987): “The visitor had brought with him an antenna bent into an ankh, an ancient Egyptian cross with a loop at the top. Grasping the two-foot-long wire by the loop, he pointed the other end at the giant stones. The result, as he reported later, was both startling and painful: a burning jolt of power surged up his arm, hurling him to the ground and knocking him unconscious. When he came to he found that his arm was paralyzed; it took six months for him to regain its full use.” This experience should serve as a warning to us all: earth energy exists, and as in the case of fire, playing with it could prove dangerous. Such a shocking degree of force surpasses anything previously mentioned with regard to etheric fields. However, it may be that the ether serves as a conduit for earth energy, much in the way that water can conduct electricity. To explore this idea further we must now move on to the next item on our list of paranormal phenomena: ley lines.