Sacred Site Seeing and Experiences Log

[Jarl Von Hoother]

Hello, Nexians

I would like to invite you all in this chance to the experience the sacred sites of your own country's backyard. Sacred sites are consecrated places or aesthetically soothing regions of ancient and often ceremonially charged repute. I have presented their locations on the list below. I personally wish to help you to travel to these places as they are just everywhere as kind of an experiment and educational or spiritual journey to understand Sacred sites and their impact on meditation and it's mysterious catalystic behavior upon enhancing the faculties of perception. Please post all of your experiences below, I would like to see if I can get this thread long! Please omit nothing of your amazing experiences.

In case any of you are still uncertain of what sacred click What are Sacred Sights? to view

If any of you have any questions regarding the sacred sights of your area for your trip you can PM me directly and I will gladly send you google maps and much more information than you'll need, Sincerely Jar Von Hoother

In The United States of America​

Alaska

Mt. McKinley (Denali)
Mt. St. Elias
Sitka National Park, Tongass Island

Arizona

Ribbon Falls, Grand Canyon
Mount Graham
I’ito (Montezuma’s Head), Pima County
‘Oks Daha (Old Woman Sitting), Pima County
Mt. Humphreys (Doko O Sliid)
Canyon de Chelly ruins
Mt. Baboquivari
Meteor Crater
Mt. Newberry (Yuman sacred mountain)
Black Mesa, Hopi reservation
Superstition mountains
Zuni sacred lake at junction of Little Colorado and Zuni rivers

Arkansas

Hot Springs National Park

California

Mt. Shasta
Mt. Tamalpais
Mt. Diablo
San Jacinto
Mt. Lassen
Joshua Tree national monument
Mt. Cuchama (Tecate)
Soldier mountain (Simolaki mountain, sacred to Ajumawi Indians)
Conception Point, near Santa Barbara (Chumash sacred site)

Colorado

Indian Burial Rock, El Paso County
Great Sand Dunes
Mt. Blanca (Sisnajini)
Mt. Hesperus (Dibe’ Nitsaa)
Pagosa Springs
Island Lake, La Plata Mountains

Florida

Crystal River mounds
Panther mound, Everglades
Mount Royal mounds
Lake Jackson mounds, near Tallahassee

Georgia

Stone Mountain
Ocmulgee Park
Etowah mounds, Cartersville

Hawaii

Haleakala volcano, Maui
Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii
Piilanihale Heiau temple, Maui
Moku’ula, Maui, Hawaii
Iao Valley, Maui, Hawaii
Mo’ okini Luakini Heiau, Hawaii
Pu’ uhonua O Honaunau, Honauna Bay, Hawaii
Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii (birthplace of Pele, goddess of volcanoes)
Kaulu Paoa Heiau, Kauia Island

Idaho

Smoking Place, Bitterroot Mountains
Heart of the Monster, Nez Perce holy place, Clearwater River, near Klamath

Illinois

Monks mound, Cahokia, near Collinsville
Kincaid mounds

Indiana

Mounds State Park
Angel mounds

Iowa

Effigy mounds national monument, Marquette
Bear mound

Louisiana

Poverty Point mound, Epps
Watson Brake mound, near Monroe
Natchez mounds
Tchefuncte mounds
Marksville mounds, near Monroe

Maine

Mt. Katahdin

Michigan

Norton mounds
Sleeping Bear Dunes, near Empire

Minnesota

Pipestone Quarry, Pipestone National Monument
Jeffers Petroglyph site, Jeffers

Mississippi
Emerald mound, Tupelo

Montana

Medicine Tree site, Ravalli county
Annashisee Lisaxpuatahcheeashiee (Big Horn Medicine Wheel)
Chief Mountain, Montana (Mt. Ninaistakis; sacred to Blackfeet Indians)
Giant Springs
Sweetgrass Hills

Nebraska

Pahuk Pawnee hill, north of Cedar bluffs, eastern Nebraska

Nevada

Cave Rock, Douglas county
Spirit Mountain (Avi Kwa ‘Ame), Clark county
Avikwa’ame (Spirit mountain), Grapevine Canyon, Laughlin (Yuman sacred place)

New Hampshire

Mt. Washington

Mystery Hill, Salem

New Mexico

Mt. Taylor (Tsoodzil), New Mexico
Chaco Canyon Anasazi ruins, New Mexico
White Sands dunes, New Mexico
Chimayo church, New Mexico
Ute Mountain, New Mexico
Blue Lake, New Mexico
Gobernador Nob, New Mexico
Shiprock, New Mexico
Mt. Huerfano, New Mexico
Truchas Peaks, New Mexico
Chicoma Mountain, New Mexico (Tewa sacred mountain)
Mt. Conjilon, New Mexico
Mt. Capitan, New Mexico (Mescalero Apache sacred mountain)
Mt. San Augustin, New Mexico (Mescalero Apache sacred mountain)
Mt. Salinas, New Mexico (Mescalero Apache sacred mountain)
Hosta Butte (‘Ak’i Dah Nast’ani’) south of Chaco Canyon
Bandelier Nat. Monument; Stone Lion shrines of Yapashi, near Running Eagle Falls
Petroglyphs National Monument, New Mexico

New York

Mt. Marcy
Balanced Rock, North Salem
Shrine of Birthplace of Kateria Tekakwitha, Auriesville
Shrine of Illumination of Kateria Tekakwitha, Fonda

North Carolina

Mt. Richland-Balsam
Pilot mountain

Ohio

Serpent Mound, Ohio

Oklahoma

Antelope and Buffalo springs, Arbuckle mountains
Spiro Mounds State Park

Oregon

Wallowa Lake
Wizard Island, Crater Lake
Mt. Hood

South Dakota

Harney Peak
Wind Cave
Buffalo Gap
Mnikata hot springs
Craven canyon
Inyan Kara mountain, Crook County, Black Hills
Bear Butte, South Dakota (Noaha-vose Cheyenne Sacred Mountain)
Bad Lands, South Dakota

Texas

Enchanted Rock, near Fredericksburg
Mt. Guadalupe (Mescalero Apache sacred mountain)

Utah

Hovenweep ruins
Mt. Zion

Washington

Mount Adams
Snoqualmie Falls
Mt. Ranier (Tacoma), Washington

West Virginia

Moundsville

Wisconsin

Aztalan mound, Lake Mills
Temple mounds
Blue Mound State Park

Wyoming
Old Baldy
Devil’s Tower
Big Horn Medicine Wheel, near Lovel

 

[Botanical Bliss]

No Pennsylvania sacred sites? There's gotta be, I've been to some beautiful places that were probably considered sacred at one point in time to some peoples, but I haven't been to any that are officially considered a sacred site.

 

[Jarl Von Hoother]

To Botanical Bliss,

This place seems beautiful, open gardens and an eclectic monastery with 18th century architecture brimming with opulence with a garden open from dusk till dawn.

Directions: From Bedford, PA, travel north on Rte. 220 for 31 miles; at Hollidaysburg merge left at exit 28 onto west Rte. 22; after 9 miles take the Cresson/Summit exit, turning right onto Adm. Peary Hwy. After crossing the Cresson railroad tracks, bear slight right onto St. Joseph St.; after 4 miles St. Francis University will be seen on the left in downtown Loretto; turn left onto State Rd. 1001, Manor Dr., then a quick right onto St. Francis Street. The Monastery and gardens are on the right.

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The Pocono mountains are probably nice by now, and the blue ridge trail where hikers go during appalachian cross-country is not too far from Philidelphia in case you get lost :shock: hopefully you wont

There is Pinncacle trail which shows you some incredible heights, it's 9 and a hlaf miles long to get here though

 

[VibeCatalyst]

Interested in where you found this info and what makes these sites so special, because my family owns the farmland bordering the shrine in auriesville, new york... Any other info?

 

[Jarl Von Hoother]

Dear VibeCatalyst

St. Issac Jogues traveled in his young days as a mystic and missionary from Cajun Orleans one day they were captured by Mohawks. There in Auriesville, PA He watched his fellow missionary's tortured even Issac's fingers were cut off by suspicious Mohawks thought his magic to be evil and he was taken in as a slave by the Indians. While trying to teach them Christianity until some Dutch merchants snuck him out and smuggled him France. He was well received, venerated for surviving as an emblematic hero as deemed martyr where he got to say the holy Mass beside the pope. He was given religious sanctity as one of the 7 martyrs. Auriesville has I 'm sure a plenitude of shrine relics and sculptures.

But Vibe catalyst over half of new york is flourishing in flora and fauna, so I was hoping everyone would go out in nature to the most mysterious awe inspiring places and document their meditations.

There was a book written called the Biophilia hypothesis and this Swedish team of psychiatrists found that their most anxious patient's were much happier and steadfast and noticed in general people just thought much clearer in the open spaces of nature. so I guess what I mean't about sacred sites is that we find the craziest place imbued with story and myth to just well you know... meditate and report how open their experiences felt. if you follow my Vibe

JVH

 

[Doodazzle]

Columcille is the name of a megalithic park outside of Bangor Pennsylvania.

Columcille Megalith Park Pennsylvania

The place has maybe a 40 year history of being considered sacred.

 

[Jarl Von Hoother]

Columcille is the name of a megalithic park outside of Bangor Pennsylvania.

Columcille Megalith Park Pennsylvania

The place has maybe a 40 year history of being considered sacred.

Well if only someone would go up there and check this place out bring some friends definitely the mediation would be great in such a fun, interesting place like Columcille megalithic park.
It makes me wish I didn't live so far away!

Nice pick Bedazzle:thumb_up:

 

[Tokapelli]

this is a good thread, good info here. Ill have to check back on this anytime i travel in the future to see what sacred sites i will be close too.

I am fortunate enough to live within minutes of many sacred places here in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Paha Sapa as the Lakota refer to it.

Harney Peak is the highest peak in south dakota and there is a beautiful view from up there. Black Elk, a Lakota medicine man said it was the center of the universe in a paradoxical way. I think this quote is from the book "Black Elk Speaks" about Harney Peak.

"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy...

But anywhere is the center of the world."

I had a tradition of sorts for a couple years of taking some good brownies up there on 4/20, but that made for a very long hike down the mountain lol. I also did a full moon hike to the top. That was a pretty amazing experience, we were up there at about 2am, the moon was huge and everything was illuminated with an eirie blue light. The pics didnt turn out very good that night but i have some daytime pics that i will post if i get a chance.

Then there is Bear Butte. I was actually just there 2 weekends ago. The trail is lined with prayar ties. From what I understand the Lakota regard it as an extremely sacred place, and many still pray there today. Its hard to explain but you can feel the spirit of the mountain very strongly when you are there. Now I feel this similar spirit anytime im in nature, I can even feel it a little just in the park in town with a little help But its different here. Its scary and comforting at the same time, a very powerful place to meditate. My indian neighbor says he knows people that have gone up there for 16 days at a time with no food, just water in search of visions.

So I consider myself pretty lucky. I would appreciate some other opinions about the use of plant teachers in these areas though. Is it wrong or disrespectful to consult the plant teachers in these places? I guess the way you do it is whats really important.

 

[Jarl Von Hoother]

So I consider myself pretty lucky. I would appreciate some other opinions about the use of plant teachers in these areas though. Is it wrong or disrespectful to consult the plant teachers in these places? I guess the way you do it is whats really important.

Dear Tokapelli,

In the Lakota tribe, a man at early age must initiate number two of his seven rites to manhood before he can secure the legacy of his life within the people of Lakota, in which the young man is left on his own for four days with little food, and water, a blanket and pipe. He is sent directly to communicate with the spirits, to pray, and ask for strength and wisdom. He is sent to the wikaska wakan (holy men) to discuss his vision, however the answer to them can never be apparent at first.

The next right is where a man is to mourn for an entire year for a lost one of the tribe family. This purifies the soul of the departed.

But to answer your question. Tokapelli, yes the spirits would welcome you to grow. Besides Our so called 'phases' in life where we look for guidance in places unexpected according to common interest like the way our parents look at us if deviating from oppressive or spiritually bereft traditions into entheogens to specify would not only be an inherent rite acceptable weather or not in partisan nativity of the Lakota people, but would be embraced. Even honored perhaps by your respect for their beliefs.

I hope this answered your question. you learn more information about the Lakota here.

We would like to hear of your visionquest, Tokapelli

Respectfully, Jarl Von Hoother

 

[Jarl Von Hoother]

If anyone has any questions about your area, PM or comment me here and I will pull up the best stuff I can