Editing Ley line (section)

====Continuing belief====
[[File:Part of Coldrum Long Barrow - geograph.org.uk - 482591.jpg|thumb|right|Modern Pagans in Britain often believe in ley lines running through ancient sites, such as the [[Coldrum Long Barrow]] in Kent.]]

In 2005, Ruggles noted that "for the most part, ley lines represent an unhappy episode now consigned to history".{{sfn|Ruggles|2005|p=226}} However belief in ley lines persists among various esoteric groups, having become an "enduring feature of some brands of esotericism".{{sfn|Hutton|2013|p=140}} As Hutton observed, beliefs in "ancient earth energies have passed so far into the religious experience of the 'New Age' counter-culture of Europe and America that it is unlikely that any tests of evidence would bring about an end to belief in them."{{sfn|Hutton|1991|p=129}} During the 1970s and 1980s, a belief in ley lines fed into the [[Modern Paganism|modern Pagan]] community.{{sfn|Hutton|1991|p=337}} Research that took place in 2014 for instance found that various modern [[Druidry (modern)|Druids]] and other Pagans believed that there were ley lines focusing on the [[Early Neolithic]] site of [[Coldrum Long Barrow]] in [[Kent]], southeast England.{{sfn|Doyle White|2016|p=356}}

In the US city of [[Seattle]] a dowsing organisation called the Geo Group plotted what they believed were the ley lines across the city. They stated that their "project made Seattle the first city on Earth to balance and tune its ley-line system". The Seattle Arts Commission contributed $5,000 to the project, bringing criticisms from members of the public who regarded it as a waste of money.{{sfn|Carroll|2015}}