![]() Ībout the Nazca Lines, Paul Devereux argues that they are walking tracks, and that their pattern mainly reveal the religious beliefs of the Kogi Indians around sacred roads. This idea then bloomed in the psychedelic movement of the 1960s and became a pillar of the New Age philosophies. He also mentions Aimé Michel's 1958 book, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, which stipulates that UFOs followed straight specific lines, an idea that ex-RAF pilot Tony Wedd later linked to Alfred Watkins' The Old Straight Track. He argues that fake information about ley lines started in 1936 with Dion Fortune's book Goat-Foot God where the author introduced the idea that ley lines have mystic power. Paul Devereux' work on ley lines was mainly focused on debunking the mystical properties falsely attributed to them. This can be demonstrated quite conclusively». According to him, Alfred Watkins' alignments «were really just chance alignments of points on maps. His first order was an article on the mystical power of ley lines, but none of the writers could provide concrete documentation on the matter. In 1976, Paul Devereux took over as editor of the magazine The Ley Hunter. Work Ley lines ĭevereux is indelibly associated with “leys", or “ ley lines". Interested in researching the ideas behind ley lines, he took over as editor of The Ley Hunter magazine in 1976. He was also a teacher, eventually teaching an evening class in Kensington called Earth mysteries. Throughout the 1970s, he exhibited his work that a critic described as «a collision between Op art and archaeology». He also witnessed, along with all the students on campus, the passage of a UFO in broad daylight in 1967. ![]() He admits to experiencing LSD and mescaline in college, and having at least one profound epiphany under the influence in 1966. With a preference for abstract expressionism, he found increasing inspiration in the geometry and ground plans of ancient sites. He painted and studied at the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in London. ![]() He originated two Channel 4 (UK) television documentaries. He has written or co-written 28 books since 1979. Paul Devereux' work primarily deals with archaeological themes, especially archaeoacoustics (the study of sound at archaeological sites), the anthropology of consciousness (ancient and pre-modern worldviews), ecopsychology, unusual geophysical phenomena, and consciousness studies, spanning the range from academic to popular. Devereux is a co-founder and the managing editor of the academic publication Time & Mind – the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, a research associate with the Royal College of Art (2007–2013), and a Research Fellow with the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group at Princeton University. ![]() Paul Devereux (born 1945) is a British author, researcher, lecturer, broadcaster, artist and photographer based in the UK. ![]()
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