Welcome to Hypatia House

Hypatia House is dedicated to bringing to modern times the ancient knowledge of Earth energies, sacred traditions that honored the Feminine Principle, and hidden laws encoded in the building of sacred sites from Neolithic times to the Reformation period.

Meet Me in the Underworld: Book Trailer

Meet Me in the Underworld: How 77 Sacred Sites, 770 Cappuccinos, and 26,000 Miles Led Me to My Soul is Svetlana Meritt’s travelogue of soul-searching set against the backdrop of Western civilization’s most sacred sites. From the myth-imbued sanctuaries of Greece and the majestic Egyptian temples, through the remnants of mysterious Etruscan civilization in Italy, to the Neolithic alignments in Brittany and the Knights Templar power sites in Southern France, Svetlana follows the currents of Earth energies that guided the visionary founders and architects of sacred sites.
Svetlana Meritt revives the long-lost science of terrestrial energies and principles behind sacred sites.

Journey of Self Discovery

Svetlana Meritt is an author, public speaker, teacher, and photographer. Her spiritual travelogue Meet Me in the Underworld: How 77 Sacred Sites, 770 Cappuccinos, and 26,000 Miles Led Me to My Soul is a journey of self-discovery immersed in mystery and mythology of sacred sites. Svetlana teaches courses on Earth energies and sacred sites in Santa Barbara.
In honor of Hypatia of Alexandria, one of the most brilliant scientists and philosophers of all times, who was brutally murdered in 415 AD by a mob of illiterate Christian monks.