EDITORIAL

an appeal on the morn of the eighties

A new ‘decade’ inevitably brings a taking stock of things and a look towards the future. As everybody living in Britain knows, the financial position of everything is getting tight. The IGR is no exception. We have had two large increases in postage recently, an increase in Value Added Tax at the last budget, and a zooming increase in print bills because of it. And now, with inflation ballooning at about 20% we find that to survive we must with regret abandon the all-litho. production for the time being. However, we will continue to bring you the latest research spiced with rare reprints of obscure yet dynamic material as well as the continuing translation of foreign geomantic material – we have some choice German work in the pipeline. On the research front the Cambridgeshire Ley Project is proceeding well with the return of Michael Behrend to Cambridge. The IGR symposium is to be held on May 17th and that is well in hand.

The 80s bring us another decade of struggle against the obscurantist views of the orthodox. The ‘skins-and-woad’ school of prehistory appears to be re-grouping under the tutelage of Aubrey Burl whilst the astro-archaeological findings of geomants are being syphoned off by academics without crediting their origins. It is up to all supporters of the cause to try their utmost to prevent a reversion to the super-materialist doctrines of the 1950s. Fifties music, hair-styles and trousers may be all the rage in the latest fashionable fad of historicism, but let us realize that these are not the days of blue suede shoes and Eva Peron, Eisenhower and Astronomers Royal decrying space travel as ‘bilge’. A lot of water (and wind) has gone under the bridge since those halcyon days of the Cold War when Adamski and Buck Nelson flew to Venus and Jupiter. No, the panjandrums of academe must not be allowed to wind back the clock of history and discovery so that yet another generation suffer the delusions of ‘nasty, brutish and short’ savages awaiting the sword of enlightenment from the Roman legions (or astronauts out on a Sunday jaunt to civilize the world).

This issue has articles on landscape geometry, snarkerama, the Star Fellowship, a weird tunnel in Cambridgeshire, Blexen Church in Germany, Alfred Lord Tennyson and North American solstice-markers as well as the Egyptian Diamond, letters and reviews. Two or three world exclusives there, I would estimate!
NIGEL PENNICK

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THE JOURNAL OF GEOMANCY, ISSN 0308-5406 is published quarterly by the INSTITUTE OF GEOMANTIC RESEARCH, Address, BAR HILL, Cambridge Postcode, ENGLAND. Price per issue 65 pence. THE JOURNAL OF GEOMANCY (JOG) is published for the four quarters: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer. This issue credits: Editorial/typer/printer/artwork: Nigel Pennick. Collation/produxion: Ann Pennick, John Cann, Sheila Cann. Litho printed by S-Print, Milton Road, Cambridge. Sundry credits: Michael Behrend, Rupert Pennick, Prudence Jones, Daryl Potter.
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