Ebook: A guide to mystical France: secrets, mysteries, sacred sites

France is one of the most visited countries in the world and one of the least known. This book takes you beyond the superficial coverage of conventional guidebooks history, architecture, etc. in search of the deeper truths. A Guide to Mystical France takes you deep under the psychic skin of France into the invisible dimensions that our materialistic world does its best to ignore. Science stops at the most interesting questions. To describe, say a painted prehistoric cave as a sacred space used for ritual is to beg more questions than it answers. It is impossible to fully appreciate the cathedral of Notre-Dame, Mont St Michel, or the alignments of Carnac if you do not understand the reasons these structures were built and they way they have been used over the centuries. The book makes no assumptions. The reader is not required to believe anything. He is merely pointed in the direction of the invisible and the hidden and left to judge for himself.;Introduction : how not to get there -- Following the stars : the great routes of pilgrimage through France -- Raw landscapes : the transcendental power of nature -- Artists of the underworld : visions in the darkness of painted caves -- Silent stones : the riddle of the megaliths -- Idols unknown : the evolution of the gods of old -- Awake in dreams : an initiation to the temples of the Romanesque -- Babel revisited : the grounding of the Gothic Enlightenment -- Heresy of perfection : the doomed and enduring beliefs of the Cathars -- Custodians of ancient knowledge : the Knights Templar and their heirs -- The legendary laboratory : alchemists of the past and present -- Spirit in our times : finding meaning in modern France -- Travel guide. Brittany ; Normandy ; The north ; Paris ; Champagne, Lorraine, and Alsace ; Burgundy ; Loire Valley ; Massif Central ; The Rhône and the Alps ; Provence ; Languedoc ; Dordogne, Lot, Tarn & Aveyron ; Western France ; The Pyrenees.