Tomas Graves takes this healthy peasant staple as a starting point to explore not only Mediterranean cooking, agriculture, and traditions but also the historical events that have rescued simple dishes from disappearing along with a way of life that had remained essentially unchanged since Roman times.
A revised and expanded edition to mark the 20th anniversary of the book's first publication. Best known to some as a dowser, Tom Graves is also a highly renowned writer, philosopher, and psychologist whose work aims at practical solutions. 'Inventing Reality', explores ways of working with the world as an extension of our own mind and awareness, moving ecological thinking beyond the material and offering new ways to approach everyday life.
This book takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Using his skills as a dowser, the author explores the realm of Earth mysteries -- megaliths, ley-lines, barrows, beacon hills, and other ancient features -- and puts forward some startling, but nonetheless highly plausible ideas. He reveals a view of our world that links past and present, a world that hints at a magical technology linking people and place; a world whose energies could perhaps have been harnessed in the past to improve the quality of life. It is also a plea for us to rediscover the profound connection with place that our ancestors knew, and to begin to heal a relationship with land that has been badly ravaged by the values and assumptions of the modem world. "Needles of Stone" has long and rightly been considered a classic. With the addition of new chapters, this 30th Anniversary edition allows the author to bring the work up-to-date and gives him an opportunity to reflect on what has happened since the book was first written.