Dear Bernard I am a school teacher and have read most of your books which are all outstanding and really make the history of each period come to life. I particularly enjoyed ‘Stonehenge’ and it made me think deeply about that whole period. It is easy to imagine the impact of the sun, moon and stars on our ancestors and the power that the shamans had over political leaders. You can also see that the secret knowledge of plants and fungae etc would give them an edge in both medicine and ‘religious’experiences. However, do you think that some of these people could actually see into the future or were they able to make shrewd guesses based on experience, information gleaned from traders and knowledge of human nature? You seem to suggest in ‘Stonehenge’ that there was possibly a bit more. I am not asking you to comment on your own beliefs, but were you assuming in stonehenge and some of your other books that there is a mystical/spirtual dimension which some of your characters are able to access to some degree.
Andrew Moore