Southern Britain hosts one of the largest concentrations of ancient sacred sites as well as those modern temples, the crop circles. Does this make it a special place to visit? The answer is yes, and for a number of reasons.

The thing to remember about ancient temples is that they work on two levels. The first is obvious. It is the visual impact of the spectacle both on the eyes and upon the landscape. The eloquent earthen mounds and circles of stone were designed to have an emotional impact on your senses. They serve to lower your mental resistance, and open up your senses to receiving finer, more penetrating forces.

Those forces are still as strong today as they were five thousand years ago, when many of the temples were built. Which brings us to the second level: these places of veneration mark the locations of invisible temples.

What do I mean by this? Temples were designed using a blueprint of subtle energies, and when these are carefully applied at one location their effect on your state of awareness can be life-altering. Magnetism, sound and sacred geometry all conspire within the temples to awaken your genetic code because, after all, the atoms that make up your body are in a constant state of vibration. Go to the right temple and the effect is transferred to you.

These places were so important that the emerging Church superimposed many of its buildings on top of ancient pagan sites. Of particular interest are the Gothic cathedrals whose designers— the Free Masons and Knights Templars—immersed the sum of their knowledge of ancient Egyptian Mysteries secrets into the fabric of those buildings. So, whether you stand inside Salisbury or Stonehenge, the cumulative effect on your consciousness is identical.

I speak from direct experience. I spent a substantial part of my life living in this part of the world, breathing its sacredness, listening to the information the land gave back to me, and watching the change in my consciousness as I transformed from cynical atheist into firm believer in a creative force. I shared this wisdom with the world in the form of the best-selling book ‘Secrets In The Fields’, and the DVDs ‘Stairways To Heaven’ and ‘Templemaking’. All thanks to being present and receptive to the primal energies still inhabiting these sacred spaces.

And just as those forces helped me to live my purpose awake, so they will mesmerize those who join us on our pilgrimage in August to this magnificent corner of the world.

© Freddy Silva 2009

Freddy Silva is the best-selling author of Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles, hailed by many as the most comprehensive book ever written on this fascinating and multi-disciplinary phenomenon, and has directed the documentaries Stairways To Heaven: The Practical Magic of Sacred Space and In The Footsteps Of Isis. He has appeared in TV documentaries for History Channel, Discovery Channel, BBC, as well as numerous video documentaries, and has been a guest on numerous radio shows.  http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org