Bluemont, VA -- The Native American Church of Virginia offers ways to encourage and support the identification, stewardship, and use of Virginia's significant archaeological resources for educational and cultural benefits with preservation, protection and restoration of Paleo-Indian and Native American Indian sites and culture.
     Join us in October as we share evidence of an advanced, but different, intelligence left by a people more than 10,000 years ago here.
     Thanks to the Clermont Foundation, Blue Ridge Mountain Civic Association, Bears Den, Friends of Bluemont and Art in the Foothills for hosting us. Currently, we are participating in two presentations and one Art Show, all open to the public:

Clermont Farm Day
Sat., Oct. 11 Presentations and Exhibits
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
801 East Main Street
Berryville, VA 22611

Bears Den
Fri., Oct. 17 Presentations
7:00 - 8:00 pm
18393 Blue Ridge Mountain Rd
Bluemont, VA 20135

International Archaeology Day

Art in the Foothills
Oct. 24-26 Art Show
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
The Boulder Crest Retreat for Military and Veteran Wellness
18370 Bluemont Village Lane
Bluemont, VA 20135

For information about Virginia Archaeology Month can be found at the Department of Historical Resources.

Release of New T-Shirt on Oct. 11

The profound mystery of the advanced unified purpose of these ancient stone circle temples and ancient monument alignments is now coming to light through the research at hundreds of such sites worldwide. Popular awareness of ancient stone circles of Native American cultures is very slowly revealing itself.

The quartz crystalline content of these massive standing stones is well known for its piezoelectric properties, which enable the stones' conversion of acoustic energy into electric energy. Calcite and quartz are the two types of piezoelectric stone which have been extensively used throughout the diverse pyramid-building cultures of the world, to transduce the ambient electrical ground currents produced by solar flare activity into an internal electrical charge and an electromagnetic field that envelops the stone monuments.

These concentric stone circles represent the prime force of infrasound, the deep and all-penetrating universal 'Om' that is associated with the Creational essence and is concentrated by these standing stone monuments due to their geometric relationship with the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.

 Spout Run, Virginia (39.05°N 77.89°W) is 5,852 miles from Giza, or 23.5% of the Earth's mean circumference distance (of 24,892 miles). This sacred resonant distance is aligned with converging infrasound standing waves in a pattern shared by all such monuments and all other sacred temples and pyramids worldwide - with the giant Stonehenge monument sitting precisely at the 9.0% distance, while Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth sit exactly along the resonant 10.0% distance.

The most dramatic effects witnessed and prophecied by the pyramid-builders themselves include the flare-up of giant HHO plasma plumes above the Great Pyramid of Giza, in formations only recently documented by modern scientists as red sprites. The Mayan/Aztec, Apache and Hopi wisdom traditions foretell of the return of our planet to a state of high-resonance, during at time refered to as the Red Dawn, when the skies will glow red with intense auroral activity as the culmination of the dramatic astronomical events of December 22, 2012.

BLUEMONT VA -- The Virginia Pilot, 220 miles away, published the Winchester Star article, "Stone circles on Va. property predate Stonehenge." Written by Val Van Meter, the online May 11, 2014 article received 462 shares on Facebook so far. Thanks Virginia Pilot.

The Virginia Pilot
ONLINE ARTICLE.

Bluemont VA – This Winchester Star feature story talks about how PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, learned about the Paleo-Indian site and the Native American Church of Virginia through the local newspaper and arranged to film here at the Sanctuary on the Trail yesterday.
     From Virginia, PBS Director Lucky Severson, Photography Mark Thalman and Audio Engineer Tony Stewart joined PBS Producer David Tereshchuk from New York, to interview the site’s guardians. The special program, about concentric rings found around the world, will air on PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly in late August.
     Paleo-Indian site guardians Chris (Comeswithclouds) White and René White (Feather) have volunteered thousands of hours for the past five years to preserve, protect and restore this site. Thermal Luminescence (TL) dating results recently confirms the site was last used 10,470 years ago, making it older than the standing boulders at England’s Stonehenge.

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• PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
• Winchester Star
• Sanctuary on the Trail

Bluemont VA -- Religion and Ethics Newsweekly David, Lucky, Mark and Tony filmed here today at the Sanctuary on the Trail. They interviewed Native American Church of Virginia CEO and President, Chris (Comeswithclouds) White and Rene' White (Feather) and the lead Archeologist Jack Hranicky.
     This PBS special, featuring concentric rings found around the world, is expected to air around the end of August.     

     The Native American of Church site guardians Chris and Rene' are preserving, protecting and restoring a Paleo-Indian sacred ceremonial site they found on their property.
     For more photos of the shoot and copy of the program please follow us here at www.SanctuaryontheTrail.org.

BLUEMONT VA -- Today's feature in the new Winchester Star newspaper LIFE section features the Native American Church of Virginia, Sanctuary on the Trail and Paleo-Indian site.

Full story at Winchester Star online.

By Josette Keelor
Northern Virginia Daily

BLUEMONT -- The Native American Church of Virginia started in 2009, but a recent discovery of an artifact dating back 10,470 years to a Paleo-Indian site has inspired Rene White (Feather) and Chris (Comeswithclouds) White to call it the oldest church in continuous operation in the world....

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Photo by Emy Dean

Washington Post via AP

BLUEMONT, Va. — Concentric stone circles near rocks weighing more than a ton — apparently aligned to mark solar events — are believed to be part of a Paleo-Indian site in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Clarke County that an expert has dated to about 10,000 B.C. (Full Story here.)

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Original story by: The Winchester Star, http://www.winchesterstar.com

By Michael Dowling
Original Article Posted Online at www.GrowingInterest.com.

Signs of life linger on the land. Like shadows that grow long as the day slips into night, the stories of past generations spread across the landscape waiting for the blazing light of curiosity to coax them from the darkness.

Perched on the slope of Mount Weather, an ancient timepiece sits quietly marking the passage of the sun. The stone day clock, built from boulders weighing thousands of pounds, overlooks what has now been identified as a sprawling solstice complex dating back thousands of years. Discovered on the property of Clarke County residents, Chris and René White, the site offers a window into the distant past where ancient people studied and developed the means to observe and measure the heavens. Since its discovery four years ago it has been meticulously researched and in 2011, Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources added it to the state’s inventory of archaeological sites. Yet despite its clear significance,  a scientific indicator of an exact date had proven elusive.

Now, a new milestone has been reached that fixes a date on the site’s last use. Using thermoluminescence dating techniques, an artifact discovered buried at the site has been dated back to 10,470 YBP (Years Before Present). This pinpoints the timeframe in which the site was last used but also means the elements constructed on the site are even older.

While the age of the site makes it a rare find, what truly distinguishes it is the fact that the features are above ground. Archeologist Dr. Jack Hranicky who has been working on the site and developing the initial research report said, that the prehistoric site, “is of unique national significance and offers a glimpse into a highly developed culture living in Virginia over 12,000 years ago.”

There are other Paleo-Indian era sites in Virginia, but the extant (above ground) nature of the site in Clarke County makes it a one of a kind historic site unique in all of North America.

When discussing how he discovered the first signs of the site, Chris White says he always had an intrinsic understanding that the land was important. He and his wife Rene’ are both Native American descendants and for years, had dreamed of creating a retreat center on their property. As a first step Chris decided to build a “medicine wheel.” Used for rituals and teaching purposes, medicine wheels are comprised of stones laid in rings and patterns on the ground. Chris identified what appeared to be a suitable spot, but was surprised to find subtle hints that stones had already been laid in concentric circles. He had walked the site many times before and had even held the marriage ceremony to his wife René  mere feet away from the spot, yet until he observed it through the lens of his Native American culture, the site remained hidden.

Convinced that his find was not a natural occurrence, he contacted archeologist Dr. Jack Hranicky. After some initial questions and a site survey, Hranicky recognized it as a possible Paleo-Indian site and research began in earnest. For the next four years the site was studied, portions excavated and seasonal observations logged to document the existing constructs and their possible uses. It was during a very methodical excavation that the artifact that would shed light on the date of the site was revealed. In what Hranicky theorizes would have been a fire hearth at the center of the stone rings, a worked piece of Jasper was discovered. The stone had been chipped away and formed into a tool, and since Jasper is not found naturally in this area it must have been brought to the site by human hands. That stone implement was the puzzle piece that clearly proved that the site was last used more than 10,000 years ago.

Through the millennia, the rough terrain has helped preserve the site. Even today, it protects its secrets as new discoveries continue to emerge. To date there over a dozen distinct features that have been documented including the massive day clock, petroglyph carvings in a stone shelter, and many solstice and seasonal observation stations.

The future of the site remains fluid. The White’s had already established a Native American Church prior to their knowledge of the site so they see a natural connection and hope to grow the two together into a location for learning and spiritual growth. Preservation and interpretation will consume the foreseeable future. While the features of the site seem to all point to time and the observation of it’s passing, the greatest obstacle to understanding the site’s meaning and importance is the chasm of time that exists between its builders and our world. Perhaps as the site calls to visitors to slow the pace of their lives and minds, that chasm may close and offer a bridge to better understand this important discovery.


Also read past articles from the Clarke Daily News:

• Archaeologist Claims 12,000-Year-Old Solstice Site in Clarke County
• Archaeologist Responds to Questions about 12,000-year-old Solstice Site
• Archaeologist Says Rockart Found at Local Paleoindian Site