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This year’s Megalithomania took place over the weekend of 8–9 May in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms. The annual event takes its name from a 1982 book by John Michell, in which he explored the rival interpretations of the megaliths by artists, antiquarians, and archæologists, always rooted in the dominant myth of their day.

Although the myth of modern progress wasn’t in special favour, this year’s Megalithomania was what a vat of ancient Aztec chocolatl drink would be to a chocoholic – it just seems to get better and better. It was also by way of being a collective toast to the memory of Hamish Miller, the master dowser who died in January 2010, the last chapter of whose life was as the initiator of the Parallel Community, a grassroots network of people working for positive change.