Posted by: nbaground on: January 25, 2010
Why is it that people go on a spiritual journey or spiritual retreats. From historic stone circles and jungle-tangled pyramids to mountaintop shrines and gothic cathedrals, venerated spots invite us with a mysterious energy. Since the start of time spiritual travel has been widespread. Men and women have gone to sacred sites for therapy, motivation and guidance. Typical western physicians may scoff at suggestions that water from holy wells can treat medical conditions or that ancient megaliths can provide messages from the spirit world, but the notion of powerful spots has been known to various cultures for thousands of years.
The most ancient famous pilgrimage place is Mount Kailash in Tibet, which continues to be a holy travel destination for an incredible 15,000 years. Walking the 32-mile trail around Kailash usually takes about three days, at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Buddhists assert the ritual circumambulation eliminates the sins of a single lifetime, and 108 times around the mountain will allow you to reach Nirvana.
South America's most popular sacred site, Machu Picchu, is a mountaintop citadel more or less 60 miles northwest of Cusco in Peru. You can find several hundred stone buildings, built on terraces and linked by a maze of stone steps and walkways.
Enhanced by the impressive natural setting, the touch of Machu Picchu is as sacred and inspiring as any cathedral. A few structures, such as the Temple of Three Windows, are constructed from enormous stone blocks weighing roughly thirty tons and fitted together with no mortar. It is totally amazing to think about how such structure could have been accomplished by a said to be "primitive" culture, many believe to be pre-Incan by thousands of years.
At present you do not have to get out of North America to look for spots known for miracles. In Chimayo, New Mexico you will find an adobe chapel where 2,000 believers congregate every Good Friday, and 300,000 tourists are drawn each year. In a mini room at the back of the chapel, often known as the "Room of Miracles," is a hole in the floor in which people scoop out sand, said to contain healing elements. The room walls are lined with hundreds of pictures and letters from visitors grateful for the healing they claim, they got.
Sedona, Arizona also has been a spiritual travel destination from prehistoric years to the present time. Not only the local Hopi and Navajo, but people from as far as Central America and Canada traveled there for treatment and learning long before Europeans invaded North America. The place's dramatically-shaped red sandstone rocks are presumed to emit powerful energy in a way as a result of their high concentration of magnetic iron.
Sedona was settled by aboriginals from the four holy directions: Apache from the East, the ancestors of the Hopi from the South, Yavapai from the West and Athabascans from the North. This appears to be the way with many pilgrimage spots. They are at first identified as spots of natural earth energy, then, in due course, the land is improved by putting monoliths, stone circles, shrines, cathedrals etc. Through the centuries, as people congregated to celebrate or worship at the locations, they integrate their own human energies.
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