With all the problems the world faces now, why study the many geographical locations and ancient buildings that are linked to a far distant past? What relevance might a collection of dusty ruins have for today's troubled world?

Well, what if the ancient past were inescapably linked to our modern world, contributing even now to our future and our destiny? Researchers, myself included, believe that this link truly exists. In addition, the appearance of crop circles (precise, geometric patterns created overnight within fields of wheat, grass, and even snow) and other contemporary mysteries also have been linked to the world's sacred sites. We first have to explore the way of thinking that seems to lie behind them. The Ancients' way of thinking is like a Rosetta Stone that enables us to begin to understand the language in which the wonders of the world are written, both ancient and modern.

Understanding the Ancient Worldview

Often, when modern researchers and archeologists place themselves within ancient ruins and try to contemplate why something was done, they do so from a modern perspective. But the Ancients perceived life very differently from the way we do now. We cannot understand why they did what they did unless we can first let go of our modern-day biases and begin to imagine their point of view.

As an example, let's examine our concept of heaven (or whatever we call the place where most of us believe we go when we die). When we as modern people think of the afterdeath realms, we look toward the stars. Our concept is that they lie outward, in space. Not only that, but we tend to see God (or whatever name we give to Him/Her) as also being in an upward direction.

But many of the ancient civilizations did not look upward when they thought about heaven and God. In fact, most of the ancient religions thought of heaven as being in the center of the earth! Thus, unless we realize that "heavenward" to the Ancients most often meant "downward," we will misinterpret the Sacred Sites in many important ways. This up-down aspect of Heaven and God is only one difference in worldview that must affect our interpretations. There are many more that are crucial to our understanding.

The Ancient Science of Geomancy

The subject of Geomancy is one that must be considered if we are to understand the thinking of the Ancients and the meaning of sacred sites. Geomancy concerns itself with patterns of energies that exist in, around, and through the Earth. Even more, geomancy is the study of how these energy patterns affect consciousness, and how they may be changed through human intervention in order to change consciousness.

Whether geomancy is a "true science" or not is a matter for some speculation, but that these energy patterns exist is not. Whatever the scientific truth is, the Ancients believed in the principles of geomancy and used them in locating the pyramids and other ancient sites. This can be demonstrated. For example, Carl Munck has shown that a single reference point in Egypt can be used to mathematically calculate the location of almost all of the world's remaining sacred sites! The implications of this fact are inescapable -- and incredible.

Sacred Geometry

If we are going to read the language presented to us in stone by our ancient forefathers, we must also take into consideration the precepts of Sacred Geometry, the shapes and proportions through which all things in existence were created. Our ancestors knew this sacred language well, and used it in everything they created, especially everything associated with sacred sites.

The Earth's Light Grids

Finally, the mathematical mapping of Sacred Sites leads to the modern idea of geometrical "grids" surrounding the Earth. These are webs of energy or "light" that encompass the Earth in a single geometric pattern. These grids are not mythical. The governments of both the United States and Russia have discovered that they actually exist. (See Anti-Gravity and the World Grid edited by David Hatcher Childress, Adventures Unlimited Press. For more information visit the website at wexclub.com.)

It is believed by many researchers that these grids determine how a species will interpret life and, in turn, what the consciousness-potential of that species will be. With this idea in mind, and remembering the science of geomancy, it is only a very short step to conceiving that the Ancients might have built the sacred sites for the purpose of creating and maintaining changes in earthly consciousness!

The Message of Sacred Sites

If nothing else strikes us about sacred sites, these wonders of the Ancient World, it is the fact that they were built to last into our time! Why? Could it perhaps be that they hold a message for us, like a secret letter that we may only now open, and begin to read?

Perhaps the messages contained in sacred sites, sent down to us untold eons ago, can actually help us to create a brighter world in the future that unfolds before us.