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Thread: Sacred Places
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Jengie jon
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# 273
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I don't but New Age does not usually upset me and the abbey is not special despite knowing Joseph of Arimathea Legend.
I can do anxiety due to story, I do not like being driving through Cheddar Gorge just in case the roof falls in again!
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Gamaliel
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# 812
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
But would you feel that if you knew nothing about its New Age/Joseph of Arimatheia connections and walked around with your eyes shut?
So how does that fit with your wife's experience in Senegal where she sensed something malevolent despite not knowing anything about it?
You seem to want to have your cake and eat it.
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chris stiles
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# 12641
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
But would you feel that if you knew nothing about its New Age/Joseph of Arimatheia connections and walked around with your eyes shut?
So how does that fit with your wife's experience in Senegal where she sensed something malevolent despite not knowing anything about it?
You seem to want to have your cake and eat it.
I don't think so necessarily - I think Baptist Trainfan was just pointing out that there were likely to be both varieties of experience - ones that are triggered by 'something in the air' and ones that were triggered by knowing something about the reputation of the place.
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Enoch
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Disquieting ones include Glastonbury, I can take the Abbey but the town just gives me creeps. ...
I agree. But I'm afraid I know exactly why. It's the creepy shops, tinkly bells, and the smell of joss sticks everywhere.
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Gramps49
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For me, Stanley Basin in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho is a sacred space. I even know of a graveyard at the head of the Salmon River where I would not mind having my ashes spread when the time comes.
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