It's a special place bash. What's cool is the over all silence up there. We are stacked on top of each other in the UK unlike back in the states where we have loads of space and can spread out., so quiet places can be hard to come by. But it landscapes and monuments like these that have inspired authors for centuries. A prime example would be the beech tree at Avebury Stone Circle where Tolkien said he came up with the idea for creating a mythology. Apparently it was a place he frequented for the purposes of sitting and thinking. What's even more fascinating is people like Carl Jung (around the same period in history) was a fan of places like these as well. The style of imagination work Jung speaks about in The Red Book almost mirrors the way Tolkien stated he would approach his creative process when visiting places like these. Basically a form of imagination work and interviewing products of imagination or consciousness. I'm not saying the places were responsible for these methodologies being born, and their fruits. But they do seem to have had an effect on two of the 20th centuries more creative/profound thinkers. It is impossible not to stand in places like these and not have your imagination run wild.
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RE: Off The Beaten Track Stone Circles, And Monuments Of Dorset