From The Start Of Time, People Have Visited Sacred Places For Cure, Inspiration And Guidance.


Why is it that people go on a spiritual journey or spiritual retreats. From aged stone circles and jungle-tangled pyramids to gothic cathedrals and mountaintop shrines, sacred places captivate us with a mysterious energy. From the start of time spiritual travel has been common. People have visited sacred sites for healing, encouragement and guidance. Typical American doctors may scoff at suggestions that water from holy wells can heal illnesses or that ancient megaliths can deliver messages from the spirit world, but the idea of powerful spots has been popular to a lot of cultures for many years.

The oldest known pilgrimage site is Mount Kailash in Tibet, which has long been a holy travel destination for an incredible 15,000 years. Trudging the 32-mile trail around Kailash normally takes about three days, at altitudes as elevated as 18,000 feet. Buddhists say the ritual circumambulation erases the sins of one life time, and 108 times around the mountain will allow you to arrive at Nirvana.

South America's most well-known sacred place, Machu Picchu, is a mountaintop citadel about 60 miles northwest of Cusco, Peru. There are several hundred stone structures, built on terraces and linked by a maze of stone notches and walkways.

Enhanced by the remarkable natural surroundings, the atmosphere of Machu Picchu is as holy and motivating as any cathedral. Some structures, like the Temple of Three Windows, are built from enormous stone blocks which weigh up to thirty tons and fitted together without mortar. It is completely mind-blowing to consider how such structure could have been finished by a so called "primitive" culture, many believe to be pre-Incan by centuries.

Today you don't have to go out of North America to find spots renowned for miracles. In Chimayo, New Mexico there exists an adobe chapel where 2,000 believers gather each Good Friday, and 300,000 pilgrims are drawn annually. In a little room at the back of the chapel, often known as the "Room of Miracles," is a floor hole whereby people scoop out sand, believed to have curative properties. The room's walls are lined with hundreds of pictures and letters from pilgrims appreciative for the healing they state, they received.

Sedona, Arizona has also been a pilgrimage destination since prehistoric years to the current time. Not only the area's Hopi and Navajo, but natives from as far as Canada and Central America journeyed there for therapy and learning long before Europeans invaded North America. The place's wonderfully-shaped red sandstone rocks are claimed to emit magical energy partly because of their high concentration of magnetic iron.

Sedona was inhabited by aboriginals from the four holy directions: Yavapai from the West, Apache from the East, Athabascans from the North, and the Hopi ancestors from the South. This turns out to be the way with many spiritual journey sites. They are first identified as places of natural earth energy, then, over time, the land is developed by putting stone circles, monoliths, cathedrals, shrines etc. As centuries passed, as people assembled to celebrate or worship at the places, they add their own human energies.

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