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I don't mind admitting that I'm pleasantly surprised by your open-mindednes :-) Some of the people I know who do similar walks/tours believe all this 100% and that can only leave people a little sceptical - unless of course they want or need to believe themselves.

Provoking thought is always better than preaching. With preaching you get two opposing results, believers and non-believers, which serves no purpose at all.

When I first read your initial post I thought, "Ey-up, we have a right one 'ere" :-) but it seems that this is not the case.

We need someone with a bit of London knowledge on here. Since RiotGibbon trundled off to concentrate on his other (more worthy) causes it's something that's been severely lacking.

The book to look for is "Earthstars.The Visionary Landscape.Part One:London, City of Revelation" by Christopher E.Street. Bloody expensive.

>When I first read your initial post I thought, "Ey-up, we have a right one 'ere" :-) but it seems that >this is not the case.

Well thanks, I think :) My motivation in this is complex, my heart is basically with a kind of Discordian Psychogeographic stance with no time for New Ageism (though I can translate into their strange language if necessary), and this mediates between a creative streak which likes to re-enchant and transform the image of the City into something some of us find more aesthetic, while on the other hand a more sceptical intellectual agenda from my Philosophy of Science background requires something a little more 'convincing' and 'real'. I struggle to reconcile these most of the time :) I dislike both 'true believers' and 'know it all skeptics' in equal measure. And have a tendency to react in the opposite extreme when I encounter them.

I genuinely believe there's something going on with all this stuff, but the rest is theory (just like any science really). One scientific test I might try (shhhhh this is private to this group) is to get walkers to dowse the 'real' leys (which so far has produced impressive results), but then ask them to dowse for a 'ley' I've made up, and see how the results differ :)))

Shame that RiotGibbon characters not around, read some of his postings, he sounds a dude....