Ancient Mysteries no. 17, October 1980 (continuation of Journal of Geomancy)
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“Five years, this he said,
is not gone is just dead”
James Marshall Hendrix, 1943–70
Five years is a landmark in the existence of any organization, and this autumn that length of existence has passed for the Institute of Geomantic Research. This issue of ANCIENT MYSTERIES is thus something of a commemoration, and nothing better to carry on the great work than the proceedings of our third Geomancy Symposium, held at Cambridge in May of this year.
As with the previous Symposia this one was held at St Andrew’s Street Hall, and the assembly heard various IGR members’ discourses on their ideas and researches into the wonderful world of geomancy. The speakers for 1980 were Prudence Jones on Viking Geomantic practices; Nigel Pennick on the Cambridgeshire Ley Project; Jeff Saward on Ancient Turf Mazes; Philip Heselton on the ramifications of Terrestrial Zodiacs; Jim Kimmis on the Rig-Reich-Straight Line connexion; and Mikael MacAireachtaigh on the strange ramifications of general biocide – a paranoid apocalypse.
Several of these talks are reproduced here, and those not will come out in another form shortly.
Five years have passed: 17 issues of the IGR Journal, 17 Occasional Papers and one Local Study have appeared from the presses of the Institute as well as the Fenris-Wolf output. Research into many subjects is continuing, and will be the nucleus of future publications in the proverbial pipeline. The following is the Proceedings: now read on.
Nigel Pennick 21/9/80