Putnam County, NY Survey- Part 4--A Strike Point

 On our survey we came upon  a tree downed by lightning. As the picture below shows it was pretty gnarly and twisted.

We are taught that lighting is created by an imbalance in the atmosphere. The negative charge in the clouds is attracted to the positive charge in the atmosphere at ground level to beget lightning strikes.

Further lighting will be attracted to the tallest, or taller objects in an area. So if you are walking in a field during a storm you may be struck by lightning because you will be the tallest object.

The earth itself is negatively charged.

Per the NOAA page:

As the storm moves over the ground, the strong negative charge in the cloud attracts positive charges in the ground. These positive charges move up into the tallest objects like trees, telephone poles, and houses. A "stepped leader" of negative charge descends from the cloud seeking out a path toward the ground. Although this phase of a lightning strike is too rapid for human eyes, this slow-motion video shows it happening.

As the negative charge gets close to the ground, a positive charge, called a streamer, reaches up to meet the negative charge. The channels connect and we see the lightning stroke. We may see several strokes using the same path, giving the lightning bolt a flickering appearance, before the electrical discharge is complete. Below is an image of a lighting streamer per the NOAA page.

    

Schumann Resonance

Lighting strikes help power the Earth's Schumann Resonance, low frequency electromagnetic waves, that many call our Mother's (Earth) heartbeat. In the early 1960's NASA found astronauts were physically affected when deprived of the Schumann Resonance so they created devices to simulate it  for astronauts to take with them on their voyages.

NASA's explanation of Schumann Resonance:

At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surface and a boundary about 60 miles up. Some of the waves - if they have just the right wavelength - combine, increasing in strength, to create a repeating atmospheric heartbeat known as Schumann resonance. This resonance provides a useful tool to analyze Earth's weather, its electric environment, and to even help determine what types of atoms and molecules exist in Earth's atmosphere.

The waves created by lightning do not look like the up and down waves of the ocean, but they still oscillate with regions of greater energy and lesser energy. These waves remain trapped inside an atmospheric ceiling created by the lower edge of the "ionosphere" - a part of the atmosphere filled with charged particles, which begins about 60 miles up into the sky. In this case, the sweet spot for resonance requires the wave to be as long (or twice, three times as long, etc) as the circumference of Earth. This is an extremely low frequency wave that can be as low as 8 Hertz (Hz) - some one hundred thousand times lower than the lowest frequency radio waves used to send signals to your AM/FM radio. As this wave flows around Earth, it hits itself again at the perfect spot such that the crests and troughs are aligned. Voila, waves acting in resonance with each other to pump up the original signal.

While they'd been predicted in 1952, Schumann resonances were first measured reliably in the early 1960s. Since then, scientists have discovered that variations in the resonances correspond to changes in the seasons, solar activity, activity in Earth's magnetic environment, in water aerosols in the atmosphere, and other Earth-bound phenomena.

Okay lightning plays an important role in powering our Mother's geomagnetic field that has an influence upon human life and well-being.

Is there more to the Earth--Lightning relationship? 

Yes.

Strike Points

I believe there is much more to the Earth-Lighting relationship. One of which are Strike Points.

A Strike Point is an aspect of Mother Earth, a feature, like a part of the human body only it is part of our Mother's Unseen, or Subtle Body. A Strike Point is a receptacle meant to capture lighting strikes to better facilitate the transfer of electricity from lightning to power the telluric currents in our Mother, the earth.

How does this all mesh with scientific thought about the process of lighting strikes? Are lightning strikes drawn to Strike Points and tall objects are struck because they lie between the sky and a Strike Point? Is the area of a Strike Point struck because the geomagnetic force is low in that area and needs o be replenished? Or are Strike Points merely a coincident indicator? What about?

Currently I really don't know how much influence a Strike Point has in this process. 

What I do know is that I consistently find Strike Points close to where Lightning has struck.  I have often dowsed out Strike Points close to objects that have been hit by lighting.

Again,  I have consistently found Strike Points close to lighting struck objects like  the tree in the picture below.

In the picture above the Strike Point is within 5 to 10 feet of the tree's trunk.

The stone in front of the tree is a Manitou Stone.

I mention Strike Points because I will be adding locating them to my business/activity of water dowsing for wells. I  will also be including other services related to the earth. I plan on setting up a webpage for my services.

Knowing if you live close to a Strike Point is important because if you live close to a one there is an increased chance that your home or property will be struck by lightning.

Lighting can indeed strike twice, thrice or more. Peter Shell tells me that his grandparents home was struck four times. 

Would you feel comfortable living in a home next to, or even on a Strike Point?

Surveys are so much fun because you never know what you will find, or learn.

Geomancy Rocks!

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Putnam County, NY Survey- Part 5 -Balanced Rock

Survey of Sacred Sites in Downstate NY, PART IV--The Kings Chamber, The King's Stone Chamber

The King's Stone Chamber is the largest stone chamber in Putnam County and ranks up there with others around the world. The vibe was slightly positive close by and there is a water dome underneath. Both are indications that the King's Chamber was used for spiritual, healing or other sacred purposes. A water dome often forms in response to positive intentions.

I imagine that the vibe at the chamber was extremely positive at one time and there were Energy Vortices there once as well. But over time a space is diminished by negative human activity and lack of reverence for the space. Unfortunately curiosity seekers  and people with negative intentions have descrecated this sacred stone chamber and surrounding stone work. Ghost hunters, UFO seekers, archaeologists and that sort of ilk are very damaging to a sacred site. Technology is particularly pernicious, as is hunting.

A sacred space needs love and spiritual nourishment. Native Americans' speak of acting in a "sacred manner" when in a sacred space. Treating everything with reverence, respect and keeping your thoughts positive. Unfortunately our modern day world does not treat our Mother with respect and honor Her. Going into the woods to cry for a vision, or to experience great Spirit has been replaced by the FREAK SHOW OF LOOKING FOR ALIENS OR GHOSTS---OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS. This is so damaging to a space and dishonors the great souls that built this stone chamber and other sacred stone structures. 

A sacred space like a muscle needs to be exercised. And you do that with prayer, ceremony and meditation; Through sacred acts such as spreading tobacco, or smudging, or leaving an offering. It is not so much what you do, but your intention and focus needs to be on love, reverence and respect.

 My staffs are 5 feet tall in 1 foot increments. Resting against the entrance they give you a good perspective of the opening and overall size of the King's Chamber.

 The staffs mark the water veins that begin at the water dome underneath the chamber. The ends of the staffs closest to the chamber approximate the outside edge of the water dome.

A manitou stone close to the chamber is a strong indication of the spiritual nature and focus on Earth Energies of the King's Stone Chamber

We said some prayers and honored the space.  As always we could have done much more.


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Survey of Sacred Sites in Downstate NY, PART V--The Church in the Woods

Whangtown Stone Chambers-- Part II (of VII) Proof that the Stone Chamber is Sacred

Anyone that appreciates stone chambers will tell you that many of them are sacred. However, are there other barometers we can use to determine whether the Whangtown Stone Chamber was once used for spiritual, or sacred purposes?

There are certainly tools to gauge the sacredness of a place.

Water Vein. There is a water vein running down the center of  the chamber as the picture below shows. 

Staff marks the Water Line.

It is only recently that I have begun dowsing for water at sacred areas. but am fairly confident that there is a water vein bisecting the chamber and running outside. The direction of water flow within the vein is going away from the stone chamber. Bill tells me that the chamber can be wet and that water runs into it, not out of it. But we are talking about a water line below the surface.

What I forgot to do while I was there was to check where the water vein began. A subsequent map dowsing of the picture tells me that the water line begins at the end of the chamber.

My impression is that water domes, or what they call blind springs form in response to prayer/meditation/ceremonty and not water lines. A water dome is water that attempts to bubble to the surface of the earth from below in response to good deeds/thoughts and stops below it reaches the surface and forms a dome. Water veins break from the side of the dome and may rise to the surface as a holy spring. While I feel confident about the water line, I would not be surprised if I was wrong.

All said and done water domes are a very positive sign and indicative the positive, or spiritual activities took place above at some point in time.

The staffs mark the water line inside the stone chamber. It appears that the water line is shallow and begins at the end of the chamber.

 The Vibe As I always say its all about the vibe. As I noted in Vortices and Spirals a positive vibe is an indication that good things, or spiritual activities took place at a location. We leave imprints of our thoughts and deeds wherever we go. These imprints have a morality to them, which a geomancer can gauge. A spiritual fingerprint of sorts.

The problem with using the vibe is that what once was a sacred place has been subsequently desecrated. Unfortunately as I noted in Part I the Whangtown mound has subsequently become a place frequently by the curious and thrill seekers. Archaeologists may have done digs there. And most certainly all sorts of innuendo from Celtic explorers, to UFO's, to a haunted place. All this sours the vibe and turns it negative.

You need to act in a sacred manner when visiting a sacred sites. Keep your thoughts and actions positive while there. Fortunately Bill tells me he has been there to experience several winter solstices; and the search of the web shows he is not alone. This helps reinvigorate and counter the negativity.

Pepper is sitting on a large stone slab about 30 feet in front of the Whangtown Stone Chamber.

The vibe was positive, to maybe slightly positive within the stone chamber.  Most space is neutral at best.

As another guage I looked at locations at the periphery of the sacred stone chamber. The back of the chamber, an area probably less frequented by people, had a slightly positive vibe. Whereas the stone in the picture above had a positive vibe. These areas less frequented by people tell me that the stone chamber was used for spiritual, or healing purposes.

Archeoastronomy. Bill tells me that the chamber opening aligns with the winter solstice; an indication that it was used for holy purposes. Archeoastronomy examines how people in the past looked at the sky and how they created stone and other structures to experience such.

I am not an archeoastronomer, but take Bill at his word. This does not necessarily mean that the purpose of the stone chamber was to solely experience the solstice. There are other things at work there which I shall write about subsequently that give even stronger indications of the spiritual nature of the stone chamber.

Conclusion. These three indicators give weight to the belief that the stone chamber was used for spiritual purposes. As I just noted above there are other things at work that I will write about subsequently that will give further credence to the sacred nature of the main stone chamber at Whangtown.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part III(of VII)--The Stone Pile

Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part VI (of VII) What's with all the markings, holes

While I was taking all this in Bill pointed out some markings inside the chambers. An elongated semicircle was etched into many of the stones within the chamber. Why?

Some people dismiss as recent; not Bill.

What was the purpose? Had it something to do with cracking the stones to make them fit, had something to do with moving stone mounds....or.....?

 Meads Corner's Chamber Above

 Meads Corner's Chamber Above

 Whangtown Chamber Above

Whangtown Chamber Above


Another feature on the hill behind Meads Corners Stone Chamber was holes in many of the large stones. Did these stones fail to crack? Where they...????? 

Bill has measured all of the holes and found that they are consistently 11" or 16" in depth. Interesting.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part VII (FINAL) Bill Pollard Putnam County's Stone Chamber Expert

Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part V (of VII) Meads Corners Stone Chamber

Bill Pollard got the bug for  stone chambers at the age of 10 when his uncle stopped his car to show young Bill the Meads Corners Chamber. Unfortunately, much has changed in the ensuing 50+ years. The pathway of stones creating a walkway were removed and placed behind the stone chamber on the hill. A road has been moved directly in front of the chamber with a lot of traffic. We had to be extremely careful crossing the road.

Bill tells me that all these stone chambers have a similar structure. He's done the work and I believe him. But there was something different about this stone Chamber. Given the processional path of stones that used to be in front of the chamber one wonders whether the stone mound had some funery function.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part VI (of VII) What's with all the markings, holes

Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part IV (of VII) The Other Stone Chamber

There is another stone mound, smaller, but similar. Unfortunately a truck had run over and compromised it. It was hidden in the brush and we would have never found it if Bill did not show it to us.

Here are some pictures.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part V (of VII) Meads Corners Stone Chamber

Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part III(of VII)--The Stone Pile

What drew me to Whangton was a picture of a stone mound I saw on the NEARA webpage

Whangtown Stone Mound 

It was very reminiscent of the stone mounds at High Tor; a dimpled center and appeared to be covering some Earth Chakras. Here are some examples from my Clarks Gully Blog:
The Ledges, Marked Energy Lines, Fare ye well--May 11, 2017 Visit
Ledges Area--Another Example of Incredible Stone Work

Here are some pics

 Staffs mark a few of the Energy Lines; many more were not marked. Three yellow tapes breaking from the red and white staff mark Earth Chakras. Notice the width on the left side.
It was one of the largest stone mounds I had ever seen. It was also connected to a very large stone wall; which begged the question where does the fence end and stone mound begin?

 Pepper in the dimpled center.

 The front of the mound. The staff is in increments of 1 foot.

Janice Carr saying a blessing and laying a red carnation in the center. She is preparing to spread some tobacco. We said prayers and gave blessings at all of the structures. Sadly because we were time constrained we did not meditate at any location.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part IV (of VII) The Other Stone Chamber

Whangtown Stone Chambers--Part I (of VII) Overview and the Main Chamber

I had a chance to visit the Whangtown and Mead corners stone chambers this week thanks to Polly Midgley NY coordinator for NEARA who connected fellow NEARA member and Earth Healer Janice Carr and I up with Bill Pollard. Bill is an expert on the stone chambers in Putnam County and tells me that there are over 200 stone chambers in the county.

Here are some resources on the stone chambers in Wangtown and Putnam County.

Whangtown Stone Chambers- Putnam Jones - YouTube

Putnam's Mysterious Chambers of Stone - The New York Times

Stone Chambers Silent on Their Makers - NYTimes.com

Rock Piles: Putnam County, New York

Stone Chambers in Putnam Valley. - The Hudson River Valley Institute

Mystery Shrouds Putnam's Stone Chambers - Highlands Current

Mixing Mystery, History: Putnam's Stone Chambers - Southeast, NY ...

SIG LONEGREN HAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN HIS MID-ATLANTIC GEOMANCY MAGAZINE ABOUT CALENDAR I & II AND PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF STONE CHAMBERS.

Unfortunately, curiosity seekers, sensationalists and promoters have dampened the vibe at the stone chambers and have put forth grandiose theories about them: Celtic in origin, UFO sites, ghosts.......

While I only visited a few places I can firmly say several are spiritual in nature.

Blessings,
madis

PS. My compass did not reverse direction or spin widely at any of the chambers as many claim.

The Main Whangtown Stone Chamber

 Bill Pollard inside the larger stone chamber.

The ceiling. Bill tells me that there is a uniformity of design to many of the stone chambers. For example, several have ceilings consisting of 7 slabs of stone.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers-- Part II (of VII) Proof that the Stone Chamber is Sacred

Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part VII (FINAL) Bill Pollard Putnam County's Stone Chamber Expert

Kudo's to Bill Pollard for spending the day showing the stone chambers, stone mounds and standing stones. I am not alone. Bill has led many others as well.

Thanks to his effort we know about the stone chambers in Putnam County and the lower Hudson River Valley. He says there are over 200. Thanks to people like him we know about the treasure trove of ancient stone structures, earthen mounds, standing stones...in the states.

Thank someone you know for their work in your home town.

Thanks, Bill!

 Bill on the right with me.

 Bill spreading tobacco and giving a blessing at the stone mound.

Bill petting Pepper.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers--Part I (of VII) Overview and the Main Chamber