PLACES OF POWER - Secret Energies at Ancient Sites: A Guide to Observed or Measured Phenomena

London: Blandford Press, 1990. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 224 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, charts, diagrams and maps. The Contents are: Part One: Background: Rumours of Power: Traditions of Power - Sites of the Dreamtime; Amerindian Sacred Power; The Power Systems of Old China; Other Names of Power. The Modern Quest - Enigmas of Stone and Earth; Folk Memory; Earth Mysteries; Crystals; The Dragon Project. Part Two: On the Ground: The Sites: Introduction: Radiation; Magnetism; Ultrasound; Light Phenomena. The Rollright Stones: The Ultrasound Riddle; Patterns of Radiation; Pulsing Stones; Other Experiments. British Sites: North to South: An Energy Guide: Tenga; Machrie Moor; Long Meg; Castlerigg; Twelve Apostles; Baildon Moor; Big Moore; Moel ty Uchaf; Dyffryn Ardudwy; Mitchell's Ford; The Fairy Stone; Burton Dassett; Carn Ingli; Gors Fawr; The Llangynidr Stone; Maen Llia; The Long Stone; Avebury; Bath; Kit's Coty; Stonehenge; Glastonbury Tor; Eggardon Hill; Nine Stones; Trethevy Quoit; Pendeen Vau; Chun Quoit; Madron Well and Chapel; Sancreed Holy Well; Carn Euny; Fogou; Boleigh Fogou. Other Sites: Cornish Circles and Radiation; A Solstitial Enigma; Gaia Programme; At Easter Aquorthies; Soundings; Lights and Sites; On-site Observations. Part Three: Breaking New Ground: Patterns Possibilities Connections: The Physics of Shamanism: Traditional Views of Power Stones; Response to Radioactivity; Healing; A Sleep of Power; Spook Road; Boleigh; Natural Radioactivity and Altered States; Geopsychedelia; Magnetic Sensitivity; Magnetism in the Ancient World; Magnetic Mind-gates. Sound and Light: Dawn Song; Earth Lights Traditions; and Sites and Faults; followed by an index..