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Barbara Joy O'Brien - Megalithomania Interview - Co-Author of 'The Shining Ones'

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Channel: MegalithomaniaUK · 2017 · Education

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Barbara Joy O'Brien interviewed by Hugh Newman in 2010. The legendary Barbara Joy O'Brien died on July 15th 2017. I have fond memories of the time I spent with Joy. She was the co-author of several important books with her husband Christian O’Brien. These included The Shining Ones (1999), The Genius of the Few (1985), The Megalithic Odyssey (1983), and An Astrological Complex of Earthworks at Wandlebury and Hatfield Forest from the Third Millenium BC (1976). I was introduced to Joy by Edmund Marriage and first met her at the ‘Stars and Stones Forum’ in Suffolk that was organised by Edmund and the late John Agnew. She was booked to speak at the first ever Megalithomania Conference in Glastonbury in May 2006, but had to pull out due to ill health (Edmund stood in for her). Soon after I had a chance to explore the stones on ‘Line A’, also known as the ‘Wandlebury-Hatfield Loxodrome’, a 23 mile alignment of sites heading south from Wandlebury to Hatfield Forest. We even discovered a new, large sarsen stone that had been unearthed near Stansted Airport, but was now on display at Takeley crossroads in Essex. I interviewed her in her home in Linton and we discussed her life and her work that was published with her husband and assembled an archive of her research she had done in the area. This will be put together in a book I’m slowly writing, but in the meantime, please look at Edmund’s website (http://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/) to read some of her research and I highly recommend all the titles listed above, as these were pioneering books in the ‘alternative history’ field and way ahead of their time. It should also be noted that Christian O’Brien could translate ancient Sumerian text, but was largely ignored due to the popularity of Zecharia Sitchin’s sensational books. It is now time to read these important works and remember these wonderful and inspiring authors who had a big influence on me.

In Memory of Barbara Joy O’Brien - 28th August 1921 - 15th July 2017.

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