Mysterious Universe Conference 

12th and 13th  September 2026

This year our exciting annual conference is at the Coronation Hall, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, SN8 4LB.

With excellent speakers on September 12th Daniel Dogherty, Francine Blake, Peter and Sue Wallace Knight, and Maria Wheatley.

Tour

£20

Daniel Dogherty: The Heavens’ Embroidered Cloths.
Understanding the wanderings and wonders of Mercury and Venus

The once resplendent heavens have become a faded and threadbare backdrop for rampant space exploration and surveillance tech. As we clutter the skies with more and more satellites and space junk are we in danger of losing a direct and experiential relationship with the heavens?

The stars and planets were once considered living realities with direct correspondences with who we are. Perhaps, if we are able once again to reorientate ourselves with the steadfast revolutions of the heavens, soul healing and world harmony is more readily achievable! The rhymes and rhythms of Mercury and Venus will form the backdrop to our explorations.

Daniel Docherty is a co-founder and senior tutor at Sacred Art of Geometry Studios (SAOG Studios), an art-based studio specialising in hands-on short courses exploring the practice and philosophy of Sacred Geometry and the Quadrivial Arts/Sciences.

He is a visiting tutor on The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts MA programme. He has been researching and teaching Sacred Geometry and the Quadrivial Arts/Sciences for 20+ years. Daniel currently lives with his family in the heart of the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex.

www.sacredartofgeometry.com
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Francine Blake: Crop Circles and their Mysteries

Francine Blake will share with us her fascinating insights into the realm of crop circles. Her research explores the connections between modern crop circle formations and ancient symbology, sacred geometry, and megalithic cultures, often linking them to ancient knowledge and potentially quantum physics.

Francine Blake is a prominent crop circle researcher, author, and lecturer. Francine was introduced to the phenomenon in 1987 and in 1992 she moved to Wiltshire, an area known for crop circle activity, to study them full-time. In 1995, she co-founded Wiltshire Crop Circle Study Group (WCCSG).

Peter Knight and Sue Wallace-Knight: Landscapes of memory – questing in the footsteps of our ancestors

Peter and Sue present a blend of the latest research into megaliths, our prehistoric ancestors, sacred landscapes and connecting with the land on a deep level; along with their own experiences over nearly 30 years of travelling around the world researching ancient wisdom and sacred places. They look into how indigenous cultures (ancient and present day) held the belief that the land holds memory, that it is the land that gifts the stories, myths and wisdom to those who seek a deeper, shamanic contact. They will cover cave art made by shaman artists in the Ice Age, as well as rock art from around the world, the concept of the Dreamtime, and the sacred properties of sound, chant and drumming.

Sue and Peter are international speakers, sacred sites tour guides and authors of 14 books. They are wisdom-seekers, environmentalists, dowsers, and are well-known for their inspiring and enthusiastic workshops, talks and field trips to ancient sacred sites, such as Avebury and Dartmoor. Find out more at their website: https://stoneseeker.net/

Maria Wheatley: The Music and Sounds of the Stones

Maria’s own unique experiments, and those alongside a clinical scientist (neurophysiology) have expanded the way we view standing stones. Maria’s intuition, and deep connection with the longheaded ancestors, guided her to study the megalithic emissions of standing stones – that she dowses as they ripple outwards.

Maria discovered that these energy zones emit certain sound frequencies that influence our brainwaves-entraining the brain to be in harmony with Gaia’s healing earth energy. Maria then realised that the positioning of certain standing stones, especially outliers (and some inliers) are not randomly placed but sited for their acoustic and earth energy properties and discovered one of the Rollright Ring’s best kept secrets. Alongside sacred geometry, Maria shows that sound played a crucial role in the rituals of our ancestors in more ways than one. Today, we can receive healing and inspiration from the silent sounds that ripple across stone circles. Some of Maria’s experiments were analysed by the Monroe Institute in the USA.

SUNDAY TOUR September 13th Avebury Earth Magick: The Sounds of the Stones and Windmill Hill Solar Calendar with Maria and Daniel

10 am: We will explore Avebury’s musical harmonics, the sound frequency of certain earth energies as well as megalithic energy-sounds that entrain the brain to ‘receive’ megalithic energy emissions. Maria noted that megalithic energy is stronger than earth energy… Some standing stones have been subtlety sculptured to enhance their harmonic ratios that lead us to the heavens and the otherworld. They are sound keys that unlock the secrets of sacred sites…

After lunch 1.30 pm: We will have a slow walk to Windmill Hill, a Neolithic causeway enclosure constructed by the longheaded long-lost civilisation. Around 20 years ago, Maria discovered that the causeways (gaps in the earthen bank) frame certain sunrises; making this one of the oldest solar calendars in Southern England. The Bronze Age round barrows, likewise, were aligned to sunrise and sunset events, but encoded a secret ritual connecting the barrows and the ancestors for eternity.

Fact is often far stranger than fiction.