The Silver Vortex

Introduction

IntroductionIn this book we have to presuppose the reality of reincarnation, i.e. the continuance of life before and after death, and the reintroduction of the same ‘spiritual entity’ into the physical realm in different times and places, often for the purpose of working out some unresolved matter from a previous life. In the present day, a large proportion of the world’s population, mainly in the East but growing rapidly in the West, holds this belief. In ancient times the Celtic Druids certainly had faith in reincarnation; indeed, debts were often carried over from one life to the next, payment legally enforced. The Bronze Age people of this book, c. 1500-1450BC, lived long before the Iron Age Celtic Druids came to the British Isles... but the belief in reincarnation was probably already here, hinted at in ancient legends and expressed in the circle, the spiral and the vortex — their most frequent and insistent symbolic images.

In this book we also have to presuppose that the realm we see with our eyes and kick with our feet is only one of the many realms we inhabit. Invisible presences are everywhere — either emanating from ourselves, or belonging to other realms altogether — and as ‘real’ as anyone we might invite to dinner.

The Temple of the Sun at Haylken is called Avebury in modern times, and is still to be seen in Wiltshire, England. “The Haunted Mound” is now called Silbury Hill. Both monuments are thought to be nearly 5000 years old.