Honouring the centre is important for humanity, for it is from the centre that we receive nourishment, like being fed by our mother in the womb through the umbilical cord at the ‘navel’ of our body. This experience transfers symbolically to our existence on the Earth plane, hence our natural propensity to locate our inner and outer centre. Historically, finding the ‘omphalos’ or navel has been vital to many world cultures and religions who deemed these locations as not only a special place on the Earth’s surface but also as a link-point between the earthly and heavenly realms.
Follow the authors on a quest to discover the centre-points of England, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Ireland. Wonder at their discoveries as they reveal why the early Celts measured their kingdom to locate it’s navel and created a shrine to the Earth Goddess and how they wielded the power of this sacred place for kingship and influence over its inhabitants, linked with the seasons and the solar festivals. The Centres of Power also delves deep into the mystery of why geographical centres are so important on a psychospiritual level to early and modern cultures.
This book is dedicated to the modern pilgrim who loves sacred landscapes, lost knowledge, earth energies and psychic questing. It will also help guide them to connect with these old centres of power in order to inspire their own spiritual journey and develop a reconnection to the god and goddess within.