Christopher Castle

In 1925 rural English businessman Alfred Watkins proposed that ancient English sites, if examined on a map, line up along what he called ley lines-or "fairy roads"-that he regarded as prehistoric trading routes. More recent thinkers have argued that these ley lines represent focal points of spiritual energy, meeting places between material Earth and a more subtle transcendent reality. Geomancers-those who study the alternative science of spiritual place-often identify spiritual sites through a somewhat mystical process commonly described as "dowsing," in which human beings visit a site and attempt to tap into its spiritual properties.

Christopher Castle, an English artist and geomancer who has studied ley lines extensively and visited a number of stone circle sites, believes that Stonehenge and other British stone circles have spiritual properties. In this...