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Shining Land Shining Land The Ancient Sites of West Penwith, Cornwall and what they tell us about megalithic civilisation Palden Jenkins Botrea Farm, Newbridge, Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8PP, UK 01736-785 967 (+44-1736-785 967) | palden.co.uk | [email protected] What it’s about Shining Land is about the magical district of West Penwith in the far west of Cornwall, UK. It’s about megalithic civilisation and the reasons why the people of the neolithic and bronze ages built stone circles, standing stones, hill camps, cairns and other sacred sites. Penwith has a greater density of these than anywhere in Europe. The book proposes that the ancients engaged in megalithic geoengineering of consciousness – a magical and spiritual approach to regulating the ecosystem, climate and human society. It shows how this was done. Shining Land will thus be of interest to anyone who loves Cornwall and anyone who is interested in the ancient sites of the megalithic period, four to six millennia ago. It includes a history of the whole prehistoric period in West Penwith, together with observations on the megalithic world in the rest of Cornwall. The hidden twist of this book concerns what we can learn from this that is relevant to the issues of the 21st Century. The result of fifty years of work, this is a book of ideas, pushing the limits of our thinking on prehistory and the early life of the people of Britain. It was written in Cornwall, one of its ancient kingdoms, now a peripheral country but, once upon a time, centrally placed in the megalithic civilisation of Atlantic coast Europe – one of the world’s great civilisations in ancient times. It gives a taste of the magic of West Penwith, once known as Belerion, the shining land. Themes • Earth energies, consciousness and ancient sites as a form of geoengineering – affecting climate, environment, social welfare and ‘the heart of the world’. • The effect of ancient sites on awareness and the shamanistic maintenance of the world. • Alternative geomantic approaches to archaeology and prehistory. • Types of sites in West Penwith and their purposes. West Penwith as one big ancient site. • A history of prehistoric Cornwall: the neolithic, bronze and iron ages. • How megalithic locational factors work: geomancy, alignment of sites, archaeoastronomy and their relation to landscape engineering. • Comparing Penwith with the neighbouring areas of Scilly, Lizard and Kerrier. • Maintaining the ‘heart of the world’ and its relevance to the 21st Century. 4 Shining Land | Palden Jenkins | Synopsis and Sample Chapters Production details • 125,000 words (not including online Appendices). • Ready now, can deliver as a .docx or .pdf with images sent separately. • Over 100 photos and 12 maps available for use in colour or greyscale. Maps and photos can be printed in the book where viable and otherwise they can go online. Photos can be reduced in number. All photos are my own. The only copyright issues are: Google Maps backgrounds to some maps. • Website for the book, in construction: www.palden.co.uk/shiningland/ Palden Jenkins Born 1950, East Grinstead, Sussex, raised Cardiff (1950s) and Liverpool (1960s). Grammar school (Liverpool, 4 A-levels). University: LSE (geography and social sciences) Ten previous books 1987-2015 (www.palden.co.uk/books-by-palden.html), including The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (1999, Kingfisher), The Only Planet of Choice (1993, Gateway Books), Pictures of Palestine (2011, self-published), Power Points in Time (2015, Penwith Press), Possibilities 2050 (2018, online). Total book sales around 100,000. Former editor with Gateway Books, Element and other presses (1990-2005). Photographer. Webmaster and content creator. Long track record in the movement for change, starting in 1960s Liverpool and LSE. Founder of Glastonbury Camps, OakDragon Camps, Hundredth Monkey Project, Jerusalem Peacemakers, Isle of Avalon and Ancient Penwith websites. Central in Glastonbury for 25 years, resident in Cornwall for 10 years. Humanitarian peacemaker (N Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Palestine, Syria, Tuareg Sahel). Astrologer, geomancer; historian, geopolitics, antiquarian. Aspie polymath. Now living on an organic farm near Penzance, Cornwall. Online outreach, original thinker, blogger, broadcaster. Diagnosed with bone marrow cancer (2019) and being treated for it. Structure Five parts: 1. Megalithic Sites. An introduction to the basics. 2. Sacred Places, Holy Landscape. About the different kinds of ancient sites in West Penwith. 3. Archaeological Ages in Prehistory. A prehistory of Penwith in the megalithic era, age by age. 4. Neighbours. About Scilly, the Lizard and Mid-Cornwall. 5. Megalithic Geoengineering. About alignments, power points, earth energy and consciousness. 5 Shining Land | Palden Jenkins | Synopsis and Sample Chapters Chapters A Brief Introduction Trinitarian Prehistorians Part One | Megalithic Sites 1. Energy-fields 2. Why were Megaliths Built? 3. Laying the Footings Part Two | Sacred Places, Holy Landscape 4. Central Places in a Wildscape | Neolithic Tor Enclosures 5. Peering over the Rolling Seas | Cliff Sanctuaries 6. Capping Energy Wells | The Quoits of Penwith 7. Adapted Geology | Propped, Placed and Oriented Stones 8. A Variety of Holy Bumps | Cairns, Barrows and Tumuli 9. Landscape Inoculation Technology | Standing Stones 10. Cathedrals of the Bronze Age | Stone Circles 11. Megalithic Constellations | Stone Circle Complexes 12. Gathering Places of the Iron Age | Hill Camps, Enclosures and Forts 13. Desirable Residences | Settlements and Homesteads 14. Subterranean Mysteries | Fogous, Springs and Holy Wells Part Three | A History of Penwith’s Prehistory 15. The Megalithic Era and what came before it 16. Sanctifiers of Belerion | the Neolithic 17. Age of the Longstone Builders | the Bronze Age 18. Druids, Roundhuts and Smithies | Iron Age Penwith Part Four | Neighbours 19. Scilly, Lizard, Kerrier and Penwith 20. Scillina Part Five | Megalithic Geoengineering 21. Why Align Ancient Sites? 22. Power Points 23. Reality Fields 24. Psychogeoengineering 25. The Heart of the World Appendices (online): Making the Maps, Photos, Megalithic Astronomy, Lists, Links, Glossary, Maps, Supplementals. 6 Shining Land | Palden Jenkins | Synopsis and Sample Chapters Sample Chapters A Brief Introduction Shining Land is a result of fiftyish years of exploration of ancient sites in Orkney, Snowdonia, Sweden, Palestine, Somerset, Wiltshire and Cornwall. It started when, as a hippy student protester at the London School of Economics around 1970, I hitch-hiked out of London to escape the revolution and find some clarity. I was rather burned out. I landed up on Orkney, of all places. It was a nice summer’s night and, wow, perchance I found an enormous stone circle – the Ring of Brodgar. Rather naively I got out my sleeping bag and slept in the middle of it. During the night I dreamt of hordes of ancients dressed in clothes that definitely weren’t from Marks and Spencer, dancing, chanting and stomping rhythmically around the circle in a deeply stirring way. One of them came to me, reaching out and saying, come and join us. I did. A long path started there and I’ve found out since then that it has a strange way of never ending. Half a century later I landed up writing this book, leading on from that initial defining experience. It might be worth reflecting on the occasion you were first prompted to join this prehistory malarky, for this has a way of indicating what we’re personally searching for on this quest. In 2019 I was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer and this made me think about my life, what I am happy with and what I could not yet put to rest. One thing that came up was to write down my thoughts and perspectives on archaeology, geomancy and prehistory, just for the record. Throughout my life I’ve been more of a geomancer than an archaeologist, though there’s a bit of both in me, and at times it has been challenging to reconcile them. I’m a strange combination of a polymath historian, antiquarian, geopolitics buff, astrologer, crop circle researcher, social activist and humanitarian – or, at least, I have been so. My adult life started in swinging 1960s Liverpool, progressing to the revolution at LSE. I’ve matured a bit since then (some would disagree), coming to understand how revolution, when framed as overthrowing regimes, makes a splash in history but doesn’t bring true, full-spectrum change. Real change is deeper and more thorough, and the shifting of historic megatrends takes time. More time than we often would prefer. This book concerns ways of seeing things and what we start seeing when we look at things in another way. It’s a book of ideas that might or might not stand the test of time or majority agreement, but my hope is that the discussion is widened and deepened hereby. It’s all a question of interpretation. What do we choose to see as evidence? What does such evidence really show? For prehistorians of all kinds, understanding the ancients involves guesswork based on patchy evidence with an abundance of holes and gaps. We don’t know what went on in the heads of the megalith builders and we can deduce it only from the remains they left behind. But they left clues, and sometimes a little intuition and empathic logic help a lot with interpretation. We need to stand in the ancients’ home-made shoes to see how things look from there. They occupied a different world, living by a very different worldview. It’s important to move our understanding toward theirs rather than to attempt to fit their world into ours. This is a big challenge. So do enjoy the ride. It might be a bit bumpy to some readers. The idea is to shake things around and see what emerges. Here’s a reading tip: each part is a mini-book, so you don’t have to read each part in sequence.
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