Saturday:Speakers
Nicholas R Mann: In this talk you are invited to stand beside the megalith builders, look at their sky and re-imagine their world and their motivations. Thanks to recent archaeology we have a pretty clear idea of what the lost parts of the Avebury
complex once looked like, now the challenge is to imagine how the Neolithic people saw their surrounding world.
Anthony Thorley: Anthony traces the geomantic and mythical history of the London Olympic Games of 2012. As well as exploring the Galactic Centre of the traditional Gypsy Switch landscape zodiac, this talk will tell the tale of the spirit of the ancient God Lugh and his role as guardian of the sovereignty of the land, the origins of the Europe-wide celebration of great gatherings and
sacred games that has emerged as the Lughnasa August Festival, and how this sacred event comes to be uncannily enacted in the Olympic Games in August 2012.
Celia Gunn: A Twist in Coyote’s Tale is the true account of a young Englishwoman who was drawn into the extraordinary renaissance of a Native North American tribe. Fragmented and disinherited, and eventually deemed extinct by the Canadian government some thirty years earlier, the Arrow Lakes people began their long journey back to their roots and their identity as the Sinix't First Nation upon learning of the removal of ancestral remains from an ancient settlement in the beautiful Slocan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. An
extraordinary encounter drew Celia into the midst of their struggle, and for six years, she walked a path that few have travelled, her life entwined with the great wisdom of Native American philosophy.
Bob Trubshaw: From Anglo Saxon place names to early Greek philosophy and much in between Bob Trubshaw creates an interwoven approach to the prehistoric landscape which someone in Neolithic Britain might just recognise. This is a mindscape where sound, swans and rivers help us to understand the megalithic monuments. Continuing from where scholarship usually stops, this re-mythologising of the land weaves these ideas together as a songline for the Avebury landscape.
Sunday Morning:
Peter Knight will lead us around Avebury, the world's largest stone circle (see Burl). It will be a very interactive session, as he deals with the site holistically. The circle lies almost midway along the famous St Michael Line (see Miller and Broadhurst), as we will dowse the Mary and Michael currents which converge and flow through the henge. We will also feel the energies emanating from individual stones;recent quantum physics theory would suggest that these are not a solid as we may think - everything is energy! Peter will also look at the shamanistic aspects of the site in the Neolithic, and how the stones were selected because they held symbolism, such as yin and yang, and spirit and mythic creatures (see Meaden). Avebury is all about interaction, according to Peter, and he will tell us how the shamans here sought to project their consciousness into the stones to reach ancestral realms and other dimensions. Peter will also demonstrate some of the wonderfully accurate astronomical alignments at Avebury (see Meaden, and Mann), and how many of the images in the stones face key astronomical events. Break for lunch.

Sunday Afternoon:
Peter will lead us up to the Neolithic site of West Kennet Long Barrow, the subject of his latest book. He will guide us through the archaeological excavations, the surrounding landscape alignments, the symbolism of many of the megaliths, show us how to dowse the
earth energies, and demonstrate his acoustic discoveries with some shamanic drumming deep within the chambersVenue: Avebury, Wiltshire.