One of the things about having most of my activities curtailed is that it gives me time to do things I might not have got around to otherwise. So I've done quite a bit of reading these last few days. As a Pagan, I believe that everything on the earth has a level of consciousness. Some things may be more conscious than others, but they're conscious all the same. This can include things like stones, trees, springs etc.
One discovery I wanted to share is the idea that at some time centuries ago, around the time of the Synod of Whitby, (when it was clear that Christianity was here to stay), some adherents to the pagan faiths decided to actively suppress some of this consciousness, particularly at stone circle and standing stone sites, to prevent their power falling into the wrong hands. This resulted in the stones being 'put to sleep' until such time as it was safe to reawaken them. Therefore the power exuded by these sites up until relatively recently wasn't a fraction of what it had once been.
In the mid 1970's a number of witches felt called to re-awaken these stones, with the result that their consciousness is steadily growing. Could this be the reason (or at least one of the reasons) why interest in paganism is growing?
It's an interesting thought.....
