格伦·布劳顿

为什么这么多人参观古老的圣地，每年？ 为什么有这么多的人吸引到英格兰的巨石阵，或在埃及的金字塔。 这是怎么回事？

在我的经验为指导，在英国古老的圣地，有各种原因，人们为什么让这些行程。 对一些人来说是一个任务，如亚瑟王传奇的个人搜索，找到圣杯的意义。 对于其他人，这是一个现代朝圣走我们的祖先的路径。 人本能地知道愈合，等待着他们在这些笼罩在神秘的地方之一。 任何提示旅行的决定，这种行程几乎总是变革。

阅读的迹象
我们的祖先知道地球密切，了解她的智慧。 生活在更亲密地交流与行星比我们地球的自然力量的意识是微调的整个身体的意识。

自己想象的那样生活五千年前的新石器时代的社会成员。 你正走，突然，你觉得在你的手或脚发麻，或者整个身体的能量高峰。 你刚才走过去的能源热点。 在这里，你会选择建立一个结构，在其中您可以使用愈合或精神上的洞察力而目前的能量。
今天同样神圣的站点可能会出现，只是一个旧时代的遗物死。 但是，通过几代人的神话告诉一个不同的故事。 例如，据说几个石材界的石头下去的水，喝在午夜或满月。 这个民间故事讲的石圈，永远存在地下水和地球的能量，进行水之间的连接。 这根据不同的季节，月亮的圆缺，甚至日夜。 所有的圣井，重视他们的医治的故事。 当我们意识到，强大的地球的能量电流已经变成类似于一个顺势疗法的水域，这些故事让完美的意义。

神圣空间

原来所有的能量点根本性质 - 一个山头，树木繁茂的灌木林，春天。 树木是第一次来教我们的封闭的自然能源的后果。 可以包含的能量，并建立了创建一个超级增压的空间。 德鲁伊执行在神圣的树丛为此，他们所有的仪式。 我们都觉得还是这些“神奇”的地方，即使我们不觉得精力;他们创造意义的沉默，在我们的感激之情，难怪，。 石圈的建设者发展这个主题和结晶岩为了控制能源使用。 今天，我们利用我们所有的电脑晶体（硅晶片）;我们的祖先真正使用相同的技术，但不同用途和不同规模。
中世纪的教堂和大教堂往往建石圈网站，确保这些能源的热点将赋予他们的基督教仪式。

意图

之间的旅游参观和变革的经验，关键的区别是什么让我们的意图。 这一承诺的意图相结合的一个神圣的精神之旅网站的超级增压的气氛，打开门非凡的事情发生。 在一定程度上，我们仍然知道知道我们的祖先 - 古圣地举行的力量和潜力。 然而，我们的逻辑思维常常告诉我们，这不可能是真实的。 如果我们愿意安静了一会儿怀疑的心态和行为，犹如神奇的是可能的，然后魔术确实成为可能。 正如爱因斯坦曾经说过：“他再也不能停下来怀疑和敬畏全神贯注站在如死了，他的眼睛被关闭。”

作者简介：
格伦·布劳顿一直研究和来访的二十多年的古老的圣地，并提请发掘自己的能量性质，这些地方的权力如何影响我们今天。 他一直是一个神秘圣地探索通过http://www.journeyswithsoul.com的这段时间大多数领导班子的导游
他也是国际上的圣地，地球奥秘，麦田怪圈，讲师是联合创始人/ http://www.earthspiritconferences.com协办

卡罗尔Ohmart贝安

朝圣的传统已经超越文字记载的历史，其受欢迎程度不减这一天几乎所有文化悠久的做法。 无论目标，

a basic purpose of a pilgrimage is to make a special journey to a site that offers a unique connection with the sacred, the supernatural, the mysterious or the extraordinary in some way. The journey's destination brings the pilgrim to a place “where the physical world meets the spiritual world.”

Religious pilgrimage is no doubt the most familiar kind and nearly all faiths encourage their followers in such journeys. For millennia Christians have aspired to visit the Holy Land of Jerusalem or places where Christian saints lived and performed their deeds. The annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj, calls pilgrims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to circle the Ka'Ba, the square, black-shrouded structure that houses the sacred Black Stone. The veneration of this sacred stone, thought now to be a meteorite, actually predates the formation of Islam. Hindus travel to the Ganges River in India seeking spiritual purification and believe life is incomplete without bathing at least once in its waters. In their eyes the river is a goddess, Ganga ma, (mother Ganga) who offers renewal and salvation.

Pilgrimage journeys are often undertaken for purposes of healing, be it of body, mind, or spirit. The destination may be humanmade such as the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in a little Canadian town of the same name just outside of Quebec. The miraculous healings that have occurred there for several hundred years attract more than a million people every year. People stand in awe before ancient monuments such as Stonehenge in England, its towering, silent stones erected by our ancestors. It attracts over 800,000 visitors per year and several thousand gather on the summer solstice to watch the sunrise at this ancient and mystical site. Visitors from a variety of religious backgrounds have reported a strong sense of mystery and spiritual energy there.

On every continent Earth's natural wonders also are points of pilgrimage offering their stunning beauties and grandeurs as balm for the spirit. A very few to mention are the Grand Canyon, the towering plume of Old Faithful's geyser in Yellowstone National Park, and sacred mountains such as Mt. Fuji in Japan and Mt. Shasta in northern California. Ayers Rock in Australia, its native name, Uluru, like Mt. Shasta is considered a place of mystical power by native peoples and New Age practitioners alike. And circling all the continents is the Ocean herself, a source of inspiration and renewal for those of us who dwell inland.

On a smaller scale, a labyrinth is very much a place “where the physical world meets the spiritual world.” The labyrinth's gently curved path leads the walker on a quiet, contemplative journey to its center. In my work with labyrinth I have witnessed people utilizing the labyrinth's pathway for something that can well be described as an “inner pilgrimage”. So much of modern life urges us to focus on the outer world, but more and more people are seeking ways to explore “inner landscapes”. In my view, this yearning accounts in part for the resurgence of interest in the labyrinth, an ancient spiritual resource. I invite you to read my article on this at www.GoldenSpiralJourney.com

Other means to pursue a personal pilgrimage of our vast and unexplored inner world can be through meditation, journal or poetry writing, and seeking places of quiet and silence where “we can hear the soul speaking”.

Pilgrimage has always been and is still “work of the soul” from the planning, to the traveling, to reaching the journey's destination. If you do not come from a religious or cultural tradition of pilgrimage, the call is sometimes more subtle. The poet Mary Oliver poses the question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” There is an ever-increasing desire to live our lives from a deeper place, to spend more of our time “being” and less in “doing.” Oliver's question beckons us to step outside the confines of our consumer focused, ego-driven culture. For those seeking this more conscious and spiritually-focused way of living, a pilgrimage journey offers abundant support in searching out this larger, more holistic life.

My own experience of pilgrimage came when I entered my fifth decade, wondering what I might do with “the rest of my life”. Some truly marvelous synchronicities (a good sign you're on the right path) brought me to Glastonbury, England, and to its evocative and mystical energies. It has been a place of pilgrimage for a thousand years and more as early peoples came to drink and bathe in the healing waters of the two springs issuing from beneath the brooding hill or “Tor”. Of Glastonbury's many myths, one is that the Holy Grail was brought here by Joseph of Arimatheia who is said to have founded the first Christian church in England. It grew into a fabulous and famous Abbey that drew devout pilgrims for hundreds of years. The legend of the Grail grew to encompass the mythical life of King Arthur and Guinevere, the energies of that story woven into all the rest. Down through the centuries, the Chalice Well at the “red spring”, sacred to the Divine Feminine, maintained its presence not far beyond the Abbey walls. In the summer of 2001, just another New Age pilgrim, I set foot on Glastonbury's streets and climbed the Tor to find my own revelations.

The Chalice Well, set within its beautiful and peace-filled Garden, continues to draw people from all over the world in quest of the healing energies of its red-tinged waters, rising ever rising from its deep hidden source. During a visit there one summer afternoon, I saw a Spanish pilgrimage group clad in white outfits performing a healing ritual in the shallow bathing pool. Observing them, I was struck by how timeless this scene was and how all of us in the Garden that day were following in the footsteps of countless generations of pilgrims.

What one finds on a pilgrimage is often ineffable, and while I can only speak for myself, beyond a doubt my annual pilgrimages to Glastonbury continue to enlarge my life. I invite you to explore this ages-old pilgrimage destination by visiting my website. And since one article cannot possibly cover this tremendously large topic, I encourage you to explore further. Wonderful resources are just a mouse-click away on the World Wide Web. Enjoy your journey and Bright Blessings!

Carol Ohmart-Behan is a certified labyrinth-facilitator, pilgrimage leader, and published novelist. Details of her annual pilgrimages to Glastonbury and Southwest England (as well as information on her other work) can be found at www.GoldenSpiralJourney.com and www.MagdaleneGrailCircle.com

By Tobias Lars BS, MBA, Mensa

'Vegging out Vacation' or 'Getting hit with a stick in Buddhist Bhutan' – is there a 3rd alternative?

We used to go on vacations in order to 'vacate', to empty out our built up stress, our 'backed up' clogged up energies. We'd plop ourselves on the beach just 'vegging' and often using alcohol to force our bodies to relax. This is the old model that we are shifting out of. And then there came an 'Eco Travel' trend, or 'Adventure Travel' with mountain biking and 'ziplining' or white water rafting. All fun and energizing. But we still weren't able to 'Be still and know That I Am God' – we still weren't able to truly relax and receive. So the pendulum swung from total 'vacating, vegging out vacations' to 'Adventure Activity Vacations'- strenuous physical activity Adventures. As with all polarity paradigms the pendulum swings between the oppo-sites and eventually finds center balance.

Now there is a new balance emerging – the best of all worlds' type of travel coming forth-

Eco Spiritual Travel – where enjoying, caring, appreciating the Natural World – being in touch with Mother Nature combines with personal Spiritual growth & a rejuvenating, relaxing vacation.

Is it 'Work' or 'Play'?

We also used to have very distinct boundaries between 'work' & 'play'. We had to 'work' in order to save up enough $ and time to 'play' or 'take time off'. This model is also starting to melt, blur and merge into something new where work & play are joining into something new.

The new model is becoming more of – just Being. We are working-playing-being-doing all together at once. Perhaps we will outgrow the word 'work' and we will come up with a new word – or perhaps no word.

'No Pain, No Gain' is the old Model

When we started doing 'workshops', retreats, awakening seminars – we were still under the old model of 'no pain, no gain'. We felt in order to get something out of our 'workshop' there had to be some 'pain' involved. We had to get up early, spend most of the day in our 'work' shop with short breaks for food – and with very little time left over for just fun. These models were the right stepping stones at the time – at least we were 'working' on our Selves and not for someone else. But now things are moving towards more merging- unifying ways of being & doing in our lives.

What if we can combine Fun, Relaxing & Play with personal Awakening & Spiritual Growth? And how about we add contributing to the health of the Planet and the Ecosphere to that? This is a 'light bulb moment' when we see it -a win-win-win for everyone and everything involved.

The old model of 'if it's good for me it tastes bad or is hard and no fun' or 'if it's fun it has to be either illegal, immoral or fattening' – those days are leaving.

Eco Spiritual Travel - is travel where you go somewhere you really enjoy, can really feel good in body, mind & spirit and enjoying Nature-Mother Earth- the Eco Sphere. Part of your 'vacation' may be to lie on the beach in Kona, Hawaii but not for all day for days on end. That's like eating too much cheesecake! Instead your day might look like this – you may get up leisurely around 8-9am, enjoy the open air restaurant breakfast – an hour after breakfast you join your Spiritual Retreat Seminar being conducted under the palm trees . You do some breathing meditation and learn to feel your Inner Body more fully. After these simple timeless spiritual exercises & some social interaction time with likeminded new friends you have free time to swim with turtles, go into town to shop, or read a book in the hammock, go visit a Kona coffee farm or snorkel on the reef. Then in the late afternoon you meet back up with your retreat group and you go for short drive to a protected bay and swim with wild dolphins carefully respecting the dolphins' natural boundaries. Then a Sunset meditation at an ancient Heiau – temple area where you can feel the ancient rhythms of true old Hawaii. And back to the resort for evening dinner overlooking the protected lagoons, watching the turtles swim below you. Private time, beach time, group spiritual time, dolphin time, sunset time, food time, hammock time… true en-join-ment.

En-join-ment = the new model is that when we truly en-joy we are 'In Joy' – en'join'ing back up with God, reconnecting with our own Spirit.

The old model is that we can only reach 'God', 'Salvation', 'Nirvana', 'Enlightenment' through pain, struggle, sore backs from meditation postures, having to 'sacrifice', fighting our minds to be 'quiet',

“It's in our Pleasure we find our Treasure.”

Do flowers not en-joy opening into blooming? Do trees struggle? Does the Ocean have to 'work' when its waves move? Do Birds effort and huff and puff when flying? Isn't this effortless flow perhaps what St. Francis was pointing to when he quotes – “ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow – they neither toil nor spin – and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

What is a flow-er? Maybe the Angels of Language left clues for us – a flower is a Flow-er, a flow of God-Spirit Energy erupting into our world to remind us to also surrender to this Flow of God-Source.

Sound too good to be true? To be able to relax, have fun, have pleasure all while Spiritually Awakening, respecting Mother Nature, and contributing financially to a group providing sanctuaries for animals?

It's happening now. These Eco Spiritual Vacations are a growth segment of travel for the future. They are here and available now. Small, boutique operators are creating truly connecting, spiritual experiences for small groups of travelers all over the world – that feed the travelers and the whole Eco Sphere – Mother Earth at the same time.

“It's not either/or — it's both and more!” OSHO

So why not make your next Vacation an 'Eco Spiritual Travel' Vacation – and feed your Self, re-connect with your Spirit while en-Joy-ing Nature-Mother Earth-the Eco Sphere.

Tobias Lars BS, MBA, Mensa – is a 'Soul Counselor' from Sedona, AZ – www.SedonaSoulCounseling.com . He is the author of the book – 'Listening to The Sun'. After having started 2 international trading companies he now devotes his time to spiritual healing work and Eco Spiritual Travel Adventures with www.SpiriTravel.com