About the Book | Shining Land - Shining Land

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 interest anyone who loves Cornwall and 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 concerns what we can learn from this that is relevant to the issues of the 21st Century.

The result of fifty years of prehistory work in parts of Britain, Greece, Sweden and Palestine, and in the last fifteen years in West Penwith, 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 Britain's ancient kingdoms. Cornwall is now a peripheral country under English occupation but, once upon a time, it was centrally placed in the megalithic civilisation of Atlantic Europe – one of the world’s great civilisations in ancient times.

This was a time when the west and north of Britain were more advanced than what became known as England.

Shining Land gives a taste of the magic of West Penwith. One of its ancient names is Belerion, the shining land.