For more than 5,000 years on this very day, December 21st, the passage way of Newgrange has been bathed in sunlight for a brief fifteen minutes during the Winter Solstice.
I've been inside Newgrange and the experience is something that will always be with me. Standing inside a passage tomb that is even older than the pyramids is mind boggling. I'm Irish by birth, and the sense and wonderment that I felt for my fore-bearers is almost impossible for me to put into words.
This You Tube video gives you a very good idea of what Newgrange is thought to be, and some ideas as to what it may have meant to the people who built it.
It is fascinating to me how much the ancients knew about the world about them. So much was refused to be seen for so long. I can relate as metaphysics is experiencing the same indignity now. Here is a direct link for those who want to learn more.
Archaeoastronomy For a long time now the scientific establishment has shown a resistance and even disregard to the idea of astronomy having been practiced in prehistory. Thankfully, the question of whether astronomy was practiced is now beyond debate, and the doors are open for us to discover the extent of this important development in human awareness.
I think in 2012 I will be arranging a metaphysical journey to Ireland so I can bring a select few with me to commune with their forebears. That would be good fun and very good for the soul. There is nothing the smell of peat can't fix. It is our mother Earth, and it gets deep inside your nostrils and it becomes a part of you.
Archeologists tell one story and the locals tell another. Ireland is steeped in folklore and Newgrange is considered by many to be sacred ground and home to the Sidhe (the gentry or good folk). It is under what the Irish call the fairy influence and it is nothing to tinkerbell with, that's for sure.
I've been inside Newgrange and the experience is something that will always be with me. Standing inside a passage tomb that is even older than the pyramids is mind boggling. I'm Irish by birth, and the sense and wonderment that I felt for my fore-bearers is almost impossible for me to put into words.
This You Tube video gives you a very good idea of what Newgrange is thought to be, and some ideas as to what it may have meant to the people who built it.
Archaeoastronomy For a long time now the scientific establishment has shown a resistance and even disregard to the idea of astronomy having been practiced in prehistory. Thankfully, the question of whether astronomy was practiced is now beyond debate, and the doors are open for us to discover the extent of this important development in human awareness.
I think in 2012 I will be arranging a metaphysical journey to Ireland so I can bring a select few with me to commune with their forebears. That would be good fun and very good for the soul. There is nothing the smell of peat can't fix. It is our mother Earth, and it gets deep inside your nostrils and it becomes a part of you.
Archeologists tell one story and the locals tell another. Ireland is steeped in folklore and Newgrange is considered by many to be sacred ground and home to the Sidhe (the gentry or good folk). It is under what the Irish call the fairy influence and it is nothing to tinkerbell with, that's for sure.
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