EARTHSTARS: LONDON - CITY OF REVELATION

Chris Street has been researching London’s ancient sacred sites for nearly thirty years. His Earthstars discovery reveals that their locations form a vast and very specific geometric pattern on the landscape. It is a temple ground plan, first used in the layout of Stonehenge over 3,500 years ago, although this one is marked by the stones of Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s and The Tower of London, as well as many other well-known landmarks, rather than sarsens and bluestones. Does that make London a vast landscape temple, or a Holy City? It’s a distinct possibility. John Michell’s work shows that this geometry relates to the biblical City of Revelation, the New Jerusalem, whose appearance is said to herald the end of an age. With the end of the Mayan calendar (2012) approaching, and our political, financial and criminal justice systems in meltdown, along with the polar ice-caps, what does it all mean? In tonight’s illustrated talk Chris will try to explain.

Chris Street has been a professional writer for most of his working life. He used to be one of the most successful advertising writers in the country.
Since the early 80's he has become more spiritually inclined and has ditched his lucrative advertising career to become something of an expert on what he calls our "Visionary Landscape". He now specialises in introducing individuals and groups to the power our sacred sites have, for healing, guidance or inspiration.

He is author of several books, including London's Camelot and The Secrets of the Grail, Earthstars, The Visionary Landscape and the less-than-serious Beer Guru's Guide, (see; www.earthstars.co.uk and www.thebeerguru.com). He has been a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids for over twenty years and feels it is important to honour the nature-based, spiritual traditions of Britain - for good reasons. The mysteries of the druids, he claims, are not lost, but encoded in our sacred sites and our visionary landscape.

EARTHSTARS - THE VISIONARY LANDSCAPE REVIEWS
"A splendid piece of writing." Sir George Trevelyan
"It is impossible to read this honest and visionary book without being deeply affected." John Michell
"Highly recommended." Psychic News
"Very readable and well-illustrated." British Society Of Dowsers Journal
" Way beyond simple straight line ley theories." Tony Charlton, Society of Ley Hunters
" Startling confirmation of Blake’s London visions of Jerusalem." Peter Quiller Author
" According to this book, our ancient sacred sites are relevant to the present and future, not just the past. They are spiritual power stations in a circuit diagram of divine force.” Colin Bloy, Fountain International
The review below was re-printed from TOUCHSTONE, the journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in June 2001.
There were times when I was reading this book that I felt I was being asked to stretch my credulity too far. Patterns on the landscape? A sacred plan for London? You're joking, aren't you? Have you walked around these filthy streets recently? Yet as the evidence kept piling up, I found myself continually re-assessing my own preconceived notions. Those readers into geomancy will love this book. Even I, with my seeming allergic reaction to lots of numbers on the same page, was able to appreciate that prior to a Frenchman incorrectly calculating the circumference of the Earth and burdening us all with the metric system, numbers themselves actually had meaning. This book for me was a fascinating journey through sacred number and landscape alignments. Chris published his first Earthstars book in 1990 and this is a fuller, more complete understanding of the concept. Did the original designers of London plan and consecrate the ground along temple lines? Was it an attempt to construct a New Jerusalem? The evidence seems to be there in the buildings and place names of our capital city. And this isn't just about putting a church in the right place. This is about representing man's relationship to the cosmos, about encoding mystical truths within the very landscape. For me, it was definitely worth pressing on past the numbers to the revelations.
Matt McCabe, OBOD Press Officer

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