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REVIEWS @ CONSCIOUSNESS, INTENT AND THE able field. He gives the example of hard megalithic or mesolithic world that devel- STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE igneous rocks having high dowsable field oped following the end of the last ice age. by Jeffrey Keen strength, and posits that Stone Age man He discusses such theories as geographic Trafford Pub., Victoria, BC, Canada, 2005 __ Clearly understood all these phenomena. dispersal and cultural diffusion, taking into ISBN 1-4120-4512-6 (31 3pp tpb) , With plenty of tables, graphs and equa- account the archaeological evidence from a Availability: Trafford Publishing, http:// tions, Keen expands his case for the struc- number of cultures and religious sects. Post- www.trafford com/robots/04-2320 html ture of the universe being linked to multidi- _ ice-age melting, the occasional great flood n his quest to explain how dowsing works, _™ensional geometry. Furthermore, he sug- as well as cosmic catastrophes played their British physicist and businessman Jeffrey * gests that what we perceive in our attempts parts in the movements of populations. Keen turns to science to explore the underly- to understand the universe and conscious- Squires covers competing theories about ing principles that link consciousness and ness is a subset er the information field that the purposes of the megalithic monuments. ‘ ‘ A is triggeret the intent of what we are whether astronomical, mathematical or reli- perception with universal energy fields. He seeking, A paradigm shifting study. gious, or all of these and more. The exis- comes up with a speculative qualitative model to describe the structure of the uni- verse and the information field. tence of ancient trade routes helped the shar- THE GEOMETRY OF THE SUN GOD ing of knowledge, and he concludes that the Every object, whether animate or inani- by Keith Squires Stonehenge builders inf enced the Pyramid mate, has an energy field, and in the first Paean Books, Chelmsford, UK, 2005 aC a) e ot in hon tat bii k part of his book Keen focuses on measuring ISBN 0-9548489-0-X (308pp tpb) Ong the way, Squires lashes out at blink- ered archaeologists who have little apprecia- tion for the sophisticated knowledge of pro- portion and geometry that was so obviously the dowsable energy fields related to tangi- _ Availability: Paean Books, ble natural objects. Such objects, including _http://www.paeanbooks.com stones, crystals, water bodies, plants, ani- lhe ancient Greeks were relative new- understood by the ancients and encoded in mals and humans, lend themselves to experi- comers in their understanding of geome- thei , y : . . . a eir monuments, measurements and reli- mentation under controlled laboratory condi- __ try, for the principles were well known to ious belief systems. An interesting reap- tions. The kind of scientific measurement earlier cultures going back thousands of ical of vimexent blue tints, Sung reap: he utilises can be applied in repeatable years to pre-megalithic times and certainly prals prints. experiments and involves fundamental con- _ well before the rise of dynastic Egypt. In cepts like mass, dimensions, range, pressure, The Geometry of the Sun God, Keith Squires rotation and field interaction. examines similarities between Stonehenge in In the second part, Keen turns his attention | Wessex, England, and the pyramids of Giza, to measuring dowsable ley lines, ancient Egypt, and concludes that the builders of megalithic sites, auras, fields emitted by all both these widely separated megaliths life-forms and the creation of dowsable utilised the mathematics of the square root fields by the action of the brain, whether via __ of three. He progresses his thesis by sug- thinking or visualisation processes. gesting that such geometrical principles Keen develops a number of laws based on _ were at the core of their religions. And 30 principles. For example, principle 19 while Stonehenge may have had a lunar ori- relates to the field strength of dowsable entation initially, he says, it was reconfig- fields, which is proportional to the mass and _ured for Sun God worship. composition of the source. Likewise, the As well as providing detailed mathematical field strength of dowsable fields is propor- surveys of Stonehenge and the pyramids, tional to the maximum range of the dows- Squires presents an overview of the pre- able field. He gives the example of hard igneous rocks having high dowsable field strength, and posits that Stone Age man clearly understood all these phenomena. With plenty of tables, graphs and equa- tions, Keen expands his case for the struc- ture of the universe being linked to multidi- mensional geometry. Furthermore, he sug- gests that what we perceive in our attempts to understand the universe and conscious- ness is a subset of the information field that is triggered by the intent of what we are seeking. A paradigm-shifting study. 68 * NEXUS megalithic or mesolithic world that devel- oped following the end of the last ice age. He discusses such theories as geographic dispersal and cultural diffusion, taking into account the archaeological evidence from a number of cultures and religious sects. Post- ice-age melting, the occasional great flood as well as cosmic catastrophes played their parts in the movements of populations. Squires covers competing theories about the purposes of the megalithic monuments, whether astronomical, mathematical or reli- gious, or all of these and more. The exis- tence of ancient trade routes helped the shar- ing of knowledge, and he concludes that the Stonehenge builders influenced the pyramid constructors—not the other way around. Along the way, Squires lashes out at blink- ered archaeologists who have little apprecia- tion for the sophisticated knowledge of pro- portion and geometry that was so obviously understood by the ancients and encoded in their monuments, measurements and reli- gious belief systems. An interesting reap- praisal of ancient blueprints. www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2006