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A SACRED SITE Spiritual travel in Peru naturally means a pilgrimage to Machu Picchu. Today Machu Picchu is one of the world's most effective and moving sacred sites of pilgrimage. But what is it that makes these ruins so special? The stones of these old buildings laying anywhere else would just be another pile of rocks, sort of interesting but so what? There are old stone ruins everywhere. It is where it sits that makes Machu Picchu what it is. |
One of the Amazon River's longest tributaries, the Urubamba River steeply cuts it's way down the eastern slope of the Andes high country. The water's origins begin at peaks up to 21,000 feet above sea level, yet within a short distance, as it passes Machu Picchu, the river is at an elevation of only 6,000 feet above sea level and still dropping fast. This dramatic drop generates an electrical energy as the tumbling water moves into countless vortex spins creating charged ions with their positive enlivening effect on living bodies. More subtle, though vast, are the natural earth energies or frequency patterns that move in flows through the planet. These energies tend to rise where there are high places with an inspirational effect on the human psyche. ~ Mighty rapids in a hurry to the Amazon - the Urubamba River below Machu Picchu |
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The slab sided peaks and ridges in the area of Machu Picchu are sharp and near vertical, this is a geologic sign of recent and dramatic uplift. The temples of Machu Picchu placed within this visual perspective can move the mind to similar emotion, dramatic uplift. On the Andean eastern slope lays the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest. In this upper cloud forest Machu Picchu sits on the tree line boundary. In worldwide traditions of magic, boundaries are known to create doorways of movement due to the flows between the worlds. The Amazon rainforest adding it's own special touch is like a gigantic green wave dashing itself against the Andean high peaks. The views and moods of Machu Picchu flow in-between to include both sky frozen glacial peaks and the cloud steaming rainforest. |
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In an area of countless possible placement sites, on mountain ridges as well as the seemingly more logical valley bottoms, the placement of Machu Picchu displays a form of reasoning unique to the awareness by ancient cultures of the earth's subtle energy. There is a traditional Andean knowledge of correspondence between sacred sites that works through the harmonic blending and enhancing of energies via connecting flow patterns. In this same traditional teaching Machu Picchu sits within three corresponding high peaks of exceptional power, creating an energy triangle. Another energy triangle is formed by three more power-peaks at the site itself forming an energy correspondence of a six pointed star with all of it's sacred geometry implications. ~ Temple of the Sun, Machu Picchu. Two temple windows face directly into the solstice |
Throughout Machu Picchu are many benches carved into living rock which serve as seats of correspondence, positioning the meditator in direct line of sight and reception with various distant power points and astrophysical events. Also below Machu Picchu are caverns which generate such a power that when initiates of the old culture were sent down, in part to test their tolerance to energy intensity, they would see them light up. This kind of energy patterning helps explain why Machu Picchu was placed on such an unusual and difficult to access mountain ridge. ~ The Machu Picchu Inti Huantana for alignment and measurement of astrophysical events |
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What makes Machu Picchu or any site sacred I feel is first the discovery of an abundance of these natural powers. Sacred Machu Picchu is the temples consecrated to using these powers in worship and spiritual connection. Mystical Machu Picchu comes from the initiations granted to spiritual seekers and students of a higher education. Machu Picchu has been placed in a specific spot that is bubbling...that is roaring with the powers that pilgrimage can utilize with focused intent. Add to all that the build up of residue feeling echoing the prayers of the uncounted supplicants who, through many millennia, have come in true pilgrimage. The prayers and the natural flows constantly renew the inspiration of Machu Picchu. |
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