Syllabus
INTRODUCTION
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Sacred Places
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An exploration of how and why places become invested with SACREDNESS and how the SACRED is embodied or made manifest through ART and ARCHITECTURE
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Paul Devereux
 Paul Devereux is the author of many books, including Earth Lights Revelation; Places of Power; Earth Memory; Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places; Symbolic Landscapes; Shamanism and the Mystery Lines; and The New Ley Hunter's Guide. His most recent book, The Long Trip, explores the prehistory of psychodelia [see synposis and a review at amazon.com].
Until recently, Paul Devereux was editor of the The Ley Hunter Journal (now online: see Ley Hunter Journal) for which he continues to serve as consulting editor. He is also a consultant and main contributor for Earth's Mysterious Places, Volume 8 of the Reader's Digest Quest for the Unknown series. He has also co-authored several books and contributed chapters to others. He is a frequent lecturer and workshop leader and is broadcast widely on British and American radio. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Full Member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (USA), Director of the Environic Foundation International, a Member of the Scientific and Medical Network, and a Research member of International Consciousness Research Laboratories.
Besides research and writing, he also directs the Dragon Project Trust, which in the past has attempted, using, among other things, scientific measuring instruments to discover whether sacred places are the sites of actual physical anomolies. The Dragon Project also conducts research at the other end of the spectrum, employing the services of dowsers, diviners, mystics and the like, in its attempt to ascertain whether or not a site has "unusual energies". It is currently running an ancient sites dreamwork project.
Paul Devereux on the web
- Welcome to the World of "Earth Mysteries"! by Paul Devereux.
- Earth Mysteries by Paul Devereux.
- Seeing The Lights by Paul Devereux.
- UFOs, Earthquakes, Magic Mushrooms and Urine by Paul Devereux.
- Symbolic Landscapes: The Dreamtime Earth and Avebury's Open Secret, by Paul Devereux. Colin Wilson reviews the book in the Literary Review: "This book is about worldviews, specifically ancient worldviews, how they differed from our own, and why. It is about shamanic consciousness and peoples perception in altered states of consciousness ( the 'dreamtime' manner of the ancient world ) of the landscape. It is a ground -breaking work exploring sacred landscapes across the world: place names, the siting of temples, localised legends and earthworks - with particular emphasis on the meaning of the Avebury complex. "I foresee that this strange book will become a cult. It is certainly the most exciting book of its kind since John Michell's View over Atlantis, which started the modern ley-line revival nearly a quarter of a century ago."
- Acculturated Topographical Effects of Shamanic Trance Consciousness in Archaic and Medieval Sacred
Landscapes, by Paul Devereux. (Abstracts from the Journal of Scientific Exploration)
- Reiserapport fra Australia. Paul Devereux, Prosjektleder, ICRL-group, University of Princeton, USA; Lloyd Miller, TV-producer, Real World Pictures, London; Erling P Strand, Project Hessdalen, HIØ, Sarpsborg, Norge.
- A Conversation with Paul Devereux. Paul Devereux, a research member of International Consciousness Research Laboratories and founder and director of the Dragon Project Trust, heads a team of scientists studying claims of unusual energies at prehistoric sites. Here, he talks about unusual discoveries and considers aspects of
consciousness that have been lost to our modern world.
- Brief review of Re-Visioning the Earth - A Guide to Opening the Healing Channels Between Mind and Nature by Paul Devereux. "Contrary to popular belief, it is not the earth that needs to be saved, it is humankind..." With that premise in mind, Paul Devereux demonstrates how we might go about saving ourselves by re-adopting the lost mindset of our ancestors which viewed our role on earth as part of nature rather than in domination over it. He ties together historic -- and prehistoric -- views of such diverse subjects as geography, mythology, cartography, and altered states of consciousness into a worldview he calls eco-psychology, out of which he wishes to see not mere environmental ethics, but a true re-visioning of our earth as sacred. The book is dense with information and practical exercises designed to challenge our customary ways of thinking.
- Paul Devereux on Earth mysteries. A Primetime interview in OMNI
- International Consciousness Research Laboratories (CRL) Abstracts Online:
- Bibliography: Paul Devereux
- Myths and Legends of Cornwall by Craig Weatherhill & Paul Devereux (review)
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Lascaux, France
Giza, Egypt
Stonehenge, England
Newgrange, Ireland
Abu Simbel, Egypt
Delphi, Greece
Athenian Acropolis, Greece
Holy Sepulchre, Israel
Dome of the Rock, Israel
Chartres, France
Lourdes, France
Shrine at Ise, Japan
Bodh Gaya, India
Teotihuacán, Mexico
St. Peter's Basilica, Italy
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Mosque of Córdoba, Spain
Kata Tjuta, Australia
Sacred Symbols
and Shapes
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