Biography
David Elkington was born in England in 1962 but spent
his formative years travelling and exploring the Southern
Hemisphere with his parents. His childhood in Australia
was supplemented by sojourns in Polynesia, New Zealand
and Indonesia. It was in these places that he first
developed an interest in Sacred Sites and ancient
traditions.
He
trained as an artist at the Bath Academy of Art where
an interest in the relationship between Christian
myth and sacred sites was fuelled. Research for his
book 'In the Name of the Gods' began in earnest in
the early 1980s when he walked through Europe and
the Middle East on a quest to understand and appreciate
the mind of Ancient Man and his relationship with
particular sites upon the Earth.
For 20 years David has been led on a revelatory trail
through world mythology, linguistics and philology
into geophysics, architecture, acoustics, music, neuro-physiology,
theology and still further into the all-encompassing,
resonant atmosphere of the planet. As his research
continued, surprising results emerged. For several
years, David has been working with Dr Keith Hearne,
the 'father of lucid dream research', on a new area
of psychology - Geolinguistics - which sees the development
of language as a direct result of the Earth's physical
environment.
David
began to introduce his work to the public in 1996
when he presented a major lecture on 'Acoustic Resonance,
Life and Consciousness' at the Quest for Knowledge
Conference in London. He lectures in England and Europe,
has co-hosted a tour of the major ancient sites of
Egypt and is a member of the Egypt Exploration Society
and Palestine Exploration Fund. He has been a consultant
to the government of Sierra Leone, to the BBC, ITV,
and to NASA.
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