Metaphysical Times
Places of Power: An Introduction
Powerful Places
by David S. Warren, Editor Here is a map showing supposed lines of force, or connection, or power transmission, or something simply mysterious called “Ley Lines”. When they intersect, Ley Lines are said to create places with a special power - typically the habitat of Bigfoot or powerful spirit beings, the landing place of aliens, or serving as portals through which one communicates with other worlds or other states of being. Spiritual centers, sacred places, and locations of political power. There is no universal agreement about what these lines are, or that they exist at all, but there is common agreement that some places seem to have a strong, if difficult to define, power. It would be in a place of some natural, or supernatural, power that you would want to have your religious architecture, your center of government, your home, your oracle, or your casino. Unless that place is already inhabited by a devil, a dragon, or a monster. My guess is that many Ley cartographers start from places such as the Bermuda triangle, Jerusalem, and Gibraltar, etcetera, then draw their lines from there. When I look at the version of the Ley line map we present here, I notice that the Bermuda triangle is a big intersection, as is Tijuana, and I see a very busy one in northern British Columbia; but most of all, I
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notice that there is a major conjunction of these lines RIGHT OVER MY HEAD. So learning what this is all about has a special urgency for me.
But this is not about me. This is a large scale map we show here, and the precise place indicated may as well be where the father of all Mormons was said to have found the one-ton book of Mormon on gold tablets, or Connecticut Hill just south of there where stranger things may have happened, and how about Seneca Falls? There is no denying that central New York, the passage west between the Catskills and the Adirondacks, has earned its name as the “BurnedOver District,” for the waves of spiritual enthusiasm and earth-scorching events that have swept through the area over the centuries.
In the end, or at least at THIS point, there is no denying that places have some kind of power for us; this most of us know from our own most profound experiences. That is why, for this issue of the Metaphysical Times, we have asked our writers for offerings with places of power, power spots, or related notions as the theme, in whatever sense they might give to those terms. In response some have written about places, others have been driven to abstraction, metaphor, satire, or distraction.