I went with Emanuel Snyder and Lori Arnold to Idyllwild in February. They both went with me to Ireland in June 2015 and we all experienced the tremendous energy surge in sending light to the land. At one of our sites in Ireland, at a cemetery near Glandore, we experienced a magnetic flow of energy coming off a pyramid stone which we could actually photograph. We wanted to try it closer to home in Idyllwild, at the foot of the giant rock known as Lily Rock or Tahquitz, named after the legendary Indian warrior.
We all felt the energy of Tahquitz. We went into meditation and felt ourselves filling with light. Then we sent the light from our bodies into the land. We felt it go into the giant rock, then down to the core of the earth. I felt it spread down into the desert.
Emanuel felt the "voice" of the mountain talking to him. As he sent light to the mountain, he sensed the land itself was being healed and revived. It may sound silly, but as a civilization we have certainly concentrated our energy on taking from the land, stripping it of any conceivable benefit to our high-powered modern life, instead of giving back...paying it forward to future generations on the planet.
The energy felt sacred and powerful. The times are long gone when shamans or priests would tend a "sacred grove of trees" or "sacred mountain". Yet that was in our DNA for thousands of years. And it felt familiar to us, and powerful, even though it was new to us.
What did these sacred places give back to the community of people? I believe they were a wellspring of serenity and beauty where people could go to get centered, to get connected, to feel an eternity and an energy which gave meaning to their lives and helped ground them through the ups and downs of life.
We don't have these sacred areas anymore. Maybe we should consider how helpful they were to the human psyche and the human spirit.
Unretouched photo of energy in Glandore