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Post by Leon on Dec 3, 2012 13:42:38 GMT
Where on earth do you class as sacred? Is it the Golden Temple Of Amritsar? The River Nile? The Ganges? Vatican City? The Himalayas? Tibet? Jerusalem? Or do you have your own sacred space, maybe in the woodlands or on a mountain top?
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Ishtahota
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Post by Ishtahota on Dec 3, 2012 23:34:14 GMT
Sacred is where you do the spirit work at. If you do it, build it, or prepare it, they will come. The place does not help us with our spirit work, it is just us doing the work.
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Post by gruntal on Dec 4, 2012 3:21:49 GMT
I have a hard time dealing with sacred places. Anybody enlightened enough to create that would surely realize it would inevitability by misunderstood if not trashed after the fact. I do feel stunned by seeing things created some years ago that last as monuments - or even little tokens of respect. Visiting some of the remaining missions in Southern California, especially San Juan Capistrano that never was abandoned and restored to mock authenticity, I see the original art work by the local Natives. There are still candles lit and arranged in quiet testament. I don't know who places them there but somebody must care enough to visit and worship.
I would love to tour the Great Pyramid in Giza but I know I can not. In the absence of that I find it very telling that natural phenomena was captivating to all people throughout history. Native Americans saw strange things here in certain places and were awed as are the modern day tourists. HUGE canyons, volcanic activity; when the miners dug they sometimes encountered unbelievable natural tunnels lined with crystals and stalactites. This to me; the things that just happened to be; against all odds when everything on the earth just came together to form a mineral vein or the Grand Canyon is hard to explain rationally. Even if you had unlimited money and could recreate anything it wouldn't be the same as seeing what just popped out of the earth all by itself with nobodies help.
That alone makes me think of appreciating things as they exist as opposed to building and abetting. As above so below; it might even become habit forming. To create shows initiative but to seek shows reverence. I could bulldoze my way thru life but to find Eden - or even a little piece of it - by searching would make that very special. Or even sacred if you prefer. Mainly because I could never take credit for it!
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Post by jesusrose on Dec 11, 2012 3:37:38 GMT
My heart.
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Smeets
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Post by Smeets on Dec 11, 2012 23:51:04 GMT
I agree with ishta and jesusrose. it's wherever you do your spiritual work. You could be in a abandoned, disgusting old building and still do sacred things.
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Post by wayne on Dec 19, 2012 2:44:27 GMT
Spot on jesusrose.....In ones own Heart for it is the seat of God.
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Post by rubyjune on Dec 20, 2012 3:40:19 GMT
Sometimes I go to places that feel different. The air feels different, peaceful. It seems all I want to do is commune with the divine when I am there. Whenever I visit the Methow Valley in Washington State, this is how I feel.
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jash
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Post by jash on Feb 11, 2013 21:27:20 GMT
My sacred spaces are where I feel most at home. Normally my bedroom, or the garden, where I can meditate. On a larger scale, I think all countries, all places of learning and spiritual guidance are sacred. And any place on Earth is too sacred to fight over.
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Post by holistichealer on Apr 21, 2013 15:40:16 GMT
There are places that by themselves feel very different from the areas that surround them.
And there are places that, as Ishtahota said, we "make" sacred.
I don't think that they're the same thing.
Part of the problem with human communication is that we often use a word to focus our discussion, but we don't have the same definition for it... even though we assume we do.
The place I've been that evoked a sense of awe in me due to it's energy was the Shenandoa Valley. It's located in Virginia and West Virginia, in the U.S. The part I was in was in Virginia.
I was amazed at the energy there. There was something unusually "clean" about it. And the grass actually did have a "bluer" content that made the color stand out in a way I'd never seen before. It was very thick, as I recall, covering every part of the ground like a carpet. One particular scene that I remember to this day was a huge cow pasture, that gently sloped upwards onto a rolling mountain that had a canopy of very large trees coming down almost to the flat part of the pasture The grass continued up the mountain, disappearing under the trees.
I've seen scenes of New Zealand that are similar, but this one I've been to personally.
This isn't to say that there aren't places just as "magical" with their natural beauty. I suspect that Scotland and Ireland have similar settings with similar energy.
I used to live in El Paso, Texas. It's desert there. And the desert is simply magical at night when the cool winds blow across what was so hot only hours before in the daytime.
By contrast, I've been up in the mountains of North Carolina and had a similar feeling- especially near streams. And then, in that same setting, when with a Cherokee Elder who did a "going to water" prayer, the energy was tangible in becoming even more so.
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Post by alvinw333 on Nov 18, 2013 20:41:45 GMT
I believe its the awerness that makes it sacred. For example are body is a temple od God, if we medetate or do a mantra to contact the Light and Sound of God the Holy Spirit, what becomes sacred? Or a Holy man that Soul travels in the heavens and come back and relizes the ground he stands on is sacred because he relizes the Spirit of God is with him. Even the Golden Wisdom Temples are saposto be sacred, but its the awerness that makes it so. Then to what makes it sacred, I believe its Divine Love that makes it feal sacred. Just my point of view
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sparklekaz
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Post by sparklekaz on Nov 18, 2013 23:15:43 GMT
Hi Alvin, Welcome to the group. I believe as you do, that it is our awareness that allows us to feel power in any given place. That our perception of beauty, magic or a sense of heightened spiritual awareness is actually arising because we are manifesting it within ourselves. Which is a beautiful thought isn't it. So in truth, the place of power is inside us. Love and light Kaz
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