Those Enigmatic Stones

Malcolm Osborn

Occasional Papers - December 2003

I have always believed in the acronym K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple & Straightforward.

I will try to do that in this posting, but I reserve the right to stray just a little, maybe once or twice perhaps. I have always tried to keep a very open mind concerning Megaliths, in fact all Earth Mysteries and beliefs. By remaining open minded in my readings I can explore all the many areas currently being investigated & experienced by lots of wonderful people out there. There are also a lot of healthy cynics out there as well, not too happy with all the psychco babble and more esoteric suggestions being posted perhaps. That's OK of course, none of us know why the stones were erected anyway, probably never will, so we can all be judged to be wrong or right in our belief systems. Just KISS.

I was talking to my partner about Avebury the other night, covering the wonder of all the stone circles, rows and standing stones. We got on to talking about radio waves and how they travel through us, our houses, in fact just about anything. I wondered what it would look like if we could actually see them all. I guess we would not be able to see a hand at the end of our nose, it would be like standing in an unbelievably thick fog. Just imagine all those waves radio · TV · mobile telephones · all the emergency services · military · radar etc. Transmitted from very powerful sources throughout the globe, we can't see them, but we just accept that they are "there".

Story 1: I worked for BT for 30+ years and I did an installation at a Radio Station once. In the Transmitter Hall the hum of the transformer laminates had to be heard to be believed, all that power and energy. The transmitters were encased in their Faraday Cages in order to prevent interference. When parties of schoolchildren were shown around the site, the guide would pick up a neon tube off a table and holding it aloft, explain that over the years technicians would absorb so much radiation they could light neons easily. He would hold it close to the cage of course and the radiation from the transmitter would do the rest. Very impressive trick, beat Star Wars Light Sabres by some 25 years. I wonder if in 500 years time a local legend will talk of the wizards from that mysterious hill making tubes glow? But the fact remains; we all know the radio waves are there, we just cannot see them, and transmitters exude a lot of power.

To actually do anything in order to detect these waves we need a receiver of some sort of course. Receivers are passive devices or nearly so. We turn on the TV or Radio and from memory I think it probably tunes in using an oscillator or something like that. But I think most, if not all devices emit radiation of some sort. All that modulation and demodulation, it is all so clever. Again we cannot see it or indeed hear it (well not often anyway) but we know it is there. Emissions, hmm.

Story 2: I once met somebody who told me that the RC-135 Signal Intelligence reconnaissance aircraft flown by the USAF could - if they wanted to - fly over your house and determine if your PC is on and what software program, sorry programme, it is currently running. Sensitive emission detections indeed.

Probably not true! I love the thought of sensitive emission detection.

So we have radio waves we just cannot see, but we know they are there. I wonder what effect they might be having on the stones, if any? Are they having an attenuation effect perhaps? Is there any radio type emissions from the stones? Do some mystics pick up the emotive leftovers of last weekâs edition of Eastenders? Or perhaps, more worrying, do the stones? I know the Dragon Project has been looking for all sorts of signals/emissions etc.

I cannot begin to imagine our world, as it was inhabited at the time of the Megalith technicians, try as I might. But it must have been so silent, no sounds other than those of Mother Nature. Sound and the frequency of Sound is a funny thing. The human ear basically is good for 50 to 3400hz. (Unless you are one of those regular users of portable sound systems using headphones of course. Volume controls are logarithmic and increase the power far more than you realise ö this can result in a decreasing ability to hear the higher frequencies). Of course sounds go much higher than that don't they, although we cannot hear them we know they are there. Then like radio frequencies, we have harmonics coming into play. Oh it's all very complicated, I remember my tutor on a Basic Transmission Course, explaining that if you plot all the harmonics of a sine wave you end up with a square wave - oh well KISS. A friend of mine from some 30 years ago now, whom worked in some aeroplane place, wondered, if a group of people formed a circle inside a stone circle, then chanted together, would the resultant resonant frequency have any effect. We mused on that one for a while - would it affect the stones or the people or both, or none of these? Every object has its resonant frequency, get it over excited and it can shatter. I have seen a film of a mild steel bar do just that in a laboratory experiment. So if you set up a resonant frequency within a confined space like a long-barrow could it affect the mind of a person perhaps?

Story 3: At Kennet, "Etheldred what are you doing in that long-barrow?" "Sorry dear, I am just showing that young girl from the hut next door how to obey Hawkwind's first lines from Sonic Attack!" "Well hurry up, you know I want to speak to my Sister at Callanish!"

So, we have radio waves we cannot see but can receive if we know how. We have sound we cannot hear but can use for all sorts of clever things if we know how.

Modern, digital telephone exchanges use a time-space-time concept of switching, allied to Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) for speed - everything comes down to speed of course doesnât it? Keep multiplexing one digitised bandwidth on to another. If you try sending the analogue voice over long distances it decays rapidly, so you must use repeater stations to amplify the signals. (Lots of standing stones and rows and circles perhaps - now stop that!) Modern technology is all based on fibre-optics of course, using light signals pulsing at incredible speeds, like the speed of light!

Light has harmonics just like radio waves, and moves into the invisible part of the spectrum with Infrared and Ultra Violet. So now we have light we cannot see, but we know it's there don't we? So you can talk at voice frequencies, it's converted to digital (0s & 1s), then light, then digital, then voice frequencies again. It can travel underground, over-ground (microwaves) or via satellites. Gosh, aren't we clever?

Oh yes, we also have harmonics, harmony, music, light and mathematics all somehow relating to each other - all waves and marvellous side effects. It can really please the eyes, ears, brain and mind. Gosh isn't nature clever?

Let's go back to my friend who worked in that aeroplane place. He taught electronic engineering. Every few weeks he got a new class of students. He knew there was a water pipe crossing the corridor outside, diagonally, so sometime in the course he would persuade all his students to try and dowse for the pipe. On average, 80% found it with no problem. Of course that just proved a lot of people could dowse for a water pipe. He had two colleagues who along with himself went into a darkroom during their lunch-hours, opened a sealed can of rather wide negative film used for aerial photography and carefully laid approx. 18" on a flat surface. They then contacted a spirit guide, and tape-recorded the session, ending each time with all sorts of images on the film. Of course one or the other could have been winding the others up, or my friend could have been lying to me, but neither he nor they were.

So then, we have things we cannot see or hear, but modern society accepts that as fact, because we can all see the tangible results, as long as we turn something ON. It's obvious isn't it? After all, we invented it didn't we? But there may be other things we cannot see or hear, that perhaps require another type of receiver. Perhaps the human kind? Perhaps some people are cognitive, gifted, passive receivers who radiate somehow whilst they interact then receive something in return. What frequencies are we talking about I wonder? Is it light, sound, soft gentle breezes, intuition, or none of these? Do you think the stones will ever solve the enigma? Keep an open mind - KISS.