City Energy
All religions have some form of ‘sacred site’. Judaism has Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall; Islam has Mecca and Medina. Australian aboriginals have various sacred sites around Australia, including Uluru, the rock near Alice Springs, previously called Ayers Rock, and Hanging Rock near Melbourne. In his books, Carlos Castaneda describes being taken to the top of a mountain and performing a mystical jump. This seems to be some kind of out-of-body experience. If you go to the top of some of the Aboriginal Sacred Sites it is possible to experience the rush of energy that can give rise to an out-of-body experience.
Of course Westerners have no conception of this because nowadays people are not trained to appreciate the subtleties of energy. However, this energy is all around us. Even in places that are not considered sacred.
People who travel, and who have at least some sensitivity, will notice the difference in feeling between various cities. New York and Sydney both have a positive ‘buzz’ to them. London has a rather dead energy except in certain places such as Hampstead Heath. Paris has a feeling that has been described as sexually feminine. Paris in the spring, when the solar currents are on the rise, is particularly powerful.
The energy is related to a number of aspects.
Uluru is a 348 metre high rock pretty well in the middle of the Australian continent. It acts as a focus for energy from the whole island and even otherwise insensitive people are usually able to pick up its power. Nowadays politically correct people frown on climbing it but if this is done to experience the energy, and with an attitude of humility, it is in line with the intentions of the keepers of the sacred site.
In various locations along the US Western coastline there are spots of intense energy caused by the
The San Andreas Fault. I worked in an office near the fault line and the energy was so localised that one room in particular had a more intense energy than the rest of the building.
Cold climates tend to have a more feminine feeling. In Scandinavian mythology,
the Sun is depicted as feminine and benign. They had never experienced the harsh
intensity of the tropical sun. Tropical climates tend to have a more positive
feeling. I've written previously on the unique energy of tropical climates.
Each part of the world, and even within towns and cities, each area has its own
unique feeling. When you see reporter on location in Baghdad, Istanbul or New
York you don't experience the energy of their location. If you have been to the
place you may recollect the particular feeling but only if you were sensitive
to it in the first place.
