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12 Most Spiritual Places of the World

By The Alchemist

There is nothing more magical than a journey to a spiritual destination. Although, any traveling experience is in fact spiritual, there are some places where energy can literally change us, uplift our soul and heal us from inside. These are the most spiritual places where priests and sorcerers from another age, used to gather up and honor nature. These are also portals to other Realms, where other entities – of higher frequency – dwell.

Which are the Most Spiritual Places of the World?

1. Delos, Greece

It could be referred to as the Avalon of the South. The energy of this sacred island is so amazing, one who is sensitive enough, will begin to feel long before you reach the destination. It is located close to one of the most popular and cosmopolitan islands of the World, Mykonos.

Delos, Temple of Isis, Greece

Delos is the Birthplace of the Gods of Magic and Prophecy, Apollo and Artemis. Apollo is the god of Sun and Artemis, the Goddess of the Moon. It is no coincidence, that the sunlight in Delos, is the most intense, compared to ANYWHERE around the globe. Scientists believe that this happens due to the ground’s texture which actually mirrors the light. Walk towards the sacred lake, and you will feel the most magical energy, running in your blood. You will radiate magic instantly!

Delos is a Portal to the Realm of the Sun and the Moon.

2. Petra, Jordan

Even looking at this special place, brings up memories from Indiana Jones and the search for the truth. Petra was initially known as Raqmu and is located in the Southern Jordan. UNESCO has declared it as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage”. Petra is a symbol of the country, as well as one of the most-visited tourist attractions of the Middle East.

The Valley which leads to the breath-taking Stone City, is called the Valley of Moses. Petra holds several temples of native deities, which were (later) been demonized – and associated with Fallen Angels. However, the mystery of Petra, pushes us to search for the Truth.

Petra is considered to be a portal of Magical Power and Sorcery. Of course, great magical power also attracts parasites and mischievous creatures. Unfortunately, Petra is also considered a place where djinns (demonic entities which trick humans) dwell, waiting for their human victims. So put up your Shields of Light and travel to Petra to discover their magic.

3. Samothrace, Greece

Imagine an island full of ancient mysteries and breath-taking waterfalls. Samothrace, is an island in Northern Greece, where the ancient ‘Kawirian’ mysteries took place. No one actually know what happened there, but they say that once you’ve attended Kawirian mysteries, you’ve been given a ring, which would grant you power over the sea. Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, the great priestess of Ancient Greece (also called as Witch), participated there (probably as Priestess of Artemis, goddess of the Moon).

Samothrace, Temple of the Great Gods

The air is so thick, you can actually taste the mystery. Still, many rituals take place by modern pagan. Most Rituals are associated with the Earth and the Water. If you are adventurous enough you have to visit Samothrace.

Samothrace, is a portal to the Underworld and the Witches of the Earth and Water. The Spirits which dwell there, although good in nature, need proper respect.

4. Karnak, Egypt

Karnak is a great complex of Temples, mostly built to honor the Theban Triad of Egyptian Gods, Ra, Mut and their son Khonsu. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut – The Most Selected of Places.

It is a vast area, close to Luxor, where the primordial forces of Light and Darkness dwell. Here, you will feel where it all begun, you will feel reborn again. The Old Gods of Sunlight, Earth, Primordial Waters and the Moonlight, a holy triad.

Karnak is a Portal to time. You travel to be reborn.

5. Ulan-Bataar, Mongolia

One of the most spiritual places of the World are located near the capital of Mongolia, Ulan-Bator. Although many of the temples were destroyed during the communist purge of temples, many of the spiritual sites still exist, radiating balance and energy. This is a place where Shamanism and Buddhism co-exist in such a wonderful way.

One of Mongolia’s most important monasteries and one of its biggest tourist attractions, is Gandan Khiid – the place of complete joy. Traveling to the nearby temples will help you nourish your soul and heal your wounds. Although you may feel you’ve come too far, you will also feel free, like a soul.

Near Ulan-Bataar you will feel connected with the forces of the Mother Nature.

6. Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto is a rather big city located in the central part of the island of Honshu. It was the imperial capital of Japan (which was later moved to Tokyo). Kyoto is located in a valley, around an astonishing mountainous region known as the Tamba highlands.

Kyoto Temple, Japan

Visiting Kyoto’s temples is a unique experience. Shinto, the native religion, is actually a practice which deliberately connects us with the spirits of nature. This procedure brings balance and power in our body. You will notice temples of the ‘guardians’ of the Quarters (the Phoenix, the Azure Dragon, the white Tiger and the black Tortoise).

In Kyoto, you can actually connect with each element by visiting each temple of the Guardians of the four Quarters.

7. Ephesus, Turkey

An ancient Greek city which is rumored to be the centre of the most powerful Witchcraft, the world has ever seen. Ancient Priestesses of Ephesus, were believed to be so powerful, that they could actually ‘draw down the Moon’, making it disappear from the skies.

This powerful procedure (here you will find a way to call down the Moon) was known only to the Priestesses of Artemis, goddess of the Moon. The Magic around this place is so powerful that you are instantly enchanted.

Ephesus, is a portal for the Realm of the Moon, and a powerful site of Witchcraft.

8. Bohonagh, Ireland

The Bohonagh is a Bronze Age, sacred Stone Circle, in the Cork Region. Every Winter Solstice, many believers and modern druids assemble to witness the Sun rising over the Atlantic, shedding sunlight through the portal stones, across the circle to the Sunrise Keystone.

Stone Circle at Drombeg, County Cork, Ireland

According to traditional Irish folklore, places like this along with ‘fairy forts’ were believed to be inhabited by the Fair People – the Fairies. These nature spirits are extremely powerful and curse humans who don’t show the proper respect. Visiting these stone circles in Ireland will get you closer to the search for Fairies.

Bohonagh, is a portal to the Fairy World. Show the proper respect to the fairies.

9. Machu Picchu, Peru

Also (probably mistakenly) known as the Lost City of Incas, this place is a portal for the Soul. It is located in the Cusco Region, above the Sacred Valley. In Machu Picchu, you will discover a vast area of complex temples, built to honor old gods and forces of nature. Although much discussion is held about human sacrifices, most probably, other kinds of libations took place – at least more often.

In Machu Picchu you will feel you soul like an eagle flying high, ready to explore the world, once again. You will also feel that you descend from a higher power. If you have the luxury to be accompanied by shamans, this is a magical place, to discover other realms.

Machu Picchu is a portal for the Astral Realm

10. Annamalaiyar Temple, India

Annamalaiyar Temple is an Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, located at the base of Arunachala hill in the town of Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, India. Mount Arunachala is called the “most silent place on earth”. In this amazing temple, Lord Shiva is worshipped as the Element of Fire.

People around the Globe travel to this outwordly temple to find their inner spark, the source of true inspiration and enlightenment. It is an amazing place to meditate and search for the ultimate force in you. On of the most spiritual places of the World.

Annamalaiyar Temple is a portal for true enlightenment.

11. Mount, China

Tai Shan is considered a deity itself and has been worshipped by the Chinese as their most sacred peak for thousands of years. It is one of five sacred Taoist mountains in China and for a reason.

Exploring the sacred sites of Mount Tai Shan is able to bring balance in your heart and help you explore your truest potential. Mount Tai Shan, is actually a the Son of Heaven’s lord. Just being on this mountain, is believed to instantly connect you with the Divine Forces. Hence, traveling to Mount Tai Shan, is actually the most spiritual destination of all, as you connect with God Himself. Blessings are so intense, that rumors say for those who travel to the top of the mountain, that they will live one hundred years!

Mount Tai Shan is a portal for the Cosmic Energy and a place for healing and transformation.

12. Your Mind, The Cosmos.

No matter where you are or your ability to travel, one of the most spiritual places of the World is always a breath away. Your Mind is all the World. In it, all spiritual places of the World lie.

Your Mind is so powerful that you can spiritually ‘travel’ to any place you feel your energy uplifted. Moreover, if you practice Astral Projection, you can actually be in any place you like, instantly and capable to see and interact with the entities which dwell in sacred sites.

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Horseback Wrestling. Bone Tossing. Dead Goat Polo. Let the Nomad Games Begin!

By Neil MacFarquhar, NY Times, Sept. 15, 2018

CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan--The American team that played a brutal version of polo at the World Nomad Games does not expect the sport to get picked up by the Olympics any time soon.

Why not?

“We use a dead goat,” said Scott A. Zimmerman, a team co-captain.

The game of kok-boru, with its headless goat carcass, was the main attraction at the weeklong international sports competition held this month in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan.

Other highlights included bone tossing, hunting with eagles and 17 types of wrestling, including bare-chested horseback wrestling, where the weaker competitor often clings desperately to the animal’s head as spectators roar in anticipation of him hitting the dirt.

The organizers hope to resurrect nomadic traditions, especially those of Central Asia, whose cultures were pushed toward extinction by decades of Soviet collectivization and then globalization.

While many top-flight athletes competed, qualifying for an event was easy: Basically anybody who signed up online could play. The bulk of the Czech Republic delegation, for example, was a group of male friends who fished around for an easy sport.

They discovered ordo, or bone tossing, which involves eight players using a chunk of cow bone to dislodge two-inch pieces of sheep bone from a large dirt circle. (It’s a lot harder than it sounds.) They could not, however, find the right bone bits in the Czech Republic with which to practice.

So how did they learn to play? They just thought about it, mostly, admitted the Czechs, who went home without any medals.

The outdoor events took place in two stunning venues--a hippodrome built for the Games on a high-altitude saline lake surrounded by the jagged peaks of the Tian Shan mountain range, and the vast meadows of a sweeping mountain gorge, where some 1,000 yurts were erected.

With archers clopping by on horses, and the smokey aroma of grilling meat, the meadow site evoked a nomadic encampment from a bygone era.

After 72 years spent under Communist domination--and more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--Kyrgyzstan and its neighbors are still trying to define themselves.

“We want to revive our historical identity,” said Kanat Amankulov, Kyrgyzstan’s minister for youth and sports.

The Games also seek to create a kind of Brand Kyrgyzstan, attracting tourists to an impoverished, landlocked, predominantly Muslim nation of about six million people.

The emphasis on nomadic traditions casts Kyrgyzstan as part of a grander Turkic civilization, and perhaps equally important, helps counter the growing strength here of the intolerant Wahhabi strain of Islam imported by clerics educated in Saudi Arabia.

The Games started on a modest scale in 2014 when about 600 athletes from 19 countries took part. The third edition of the biannual event attracted 1,976 competitors, representing 74 countries.

The elaborate opening ceremony, with 1,500 dancers and other performers, retold the myth of creation from the nomad perspective. First came primordial earth, then man, horses, yurts and hence nomads--who gave rise to the rest of us. The performance rocked the sold-out 10,000-seat arena.

Team uniforms, on display at the parade of competitors, ran from the professional to the improvised. The Germans wore black sweatsuits with a few pairs of lederhosen thrown in for an ancestral touch, while the Pakistanis sported matching green vests and scarves.

Others teams looked as if they had wandered in from the nearest cafe; the man carrying the flag of Estonia wore jeans and a white T-shirt.

The United States fielded more than 50 participants, many of them Peace Corps volunteers working in Kyrgyzstan. The American kok-boru team, some waving their own cowboy hats, brandished the flag of Wyoming, home to 8 of 10 players.

The Games are somewhat controversial in Kyrgyzstan. Critics argue the money to produce them would be better spent on much-needed development like schools. Yet local participants reveled in the events.

As a circus performer, Aida Akmatova, 32, developed her signature trick of shooting a bow and arrow with her feet. At the Games, she competed in horseback archery.

“This is not just another performance, but a key event in my life,” she said. “I can help pass down our culture, our traditions.”

The rest of the world has been catching on to the appeal of the competition.

In 2016, the lone guest of honor was Steven Seagal, the former Hollywood action star. This year high-profile guests included President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary.

While the number of Western visitors remains relatively small, the Games attracted Kyrgyz from around the country, including Ulan Subanov, 27, an accountant, from Bishkek, the capital, who came to watch the kok-boru contests, ultimately won by his homeland.

“This is the most dangerous game in the whole world, you have to be fearless to play it,” Mr. Subanov said. “It is much more dangerous than American football.”

The rough, physically demanding game once served as the Kyrgyz equivalent of West Point, training warriors for the battlefield.

All eight players try to scoop up an 80-pound goat carcass off the dirt. Every effort provokes a hellacious, rugby-like scrum on horseback, with whips cracking and hooves pounding.

Any player who manages to wrest the carcass away gallops downfield to fling it into an elevated goal about the size of a kiddie pool.

The United States versus Russia was one of the first kok-boru matches. Given that the Russian players were of Kyrgyz origin, an American victory would have surpassed the upset of the “Miracle on Ice” hockey win at the 1980 Olympics.

The American players, most in their first game ever, struggled, with the announcer bellowing, “Whoooops!” every time one of them dropped the carcass.

At one point an American player, Ladd Howell, recruited because of his experience wrangling rodeo calves, broke away from the massed riders and galloped toward the goal. He threw the beast into the goal with such force that he fell in after it, provoking a roar of laughter from the stands.

While the game disturbs many animal-rights activists, Garret J. Edington, a co-captain of the American side, said the team was not there to challenge local traditions. “It is part of the culture that we are here to experience,” he said, adding that the winning team gets to eat the goat.

The British ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Robin Ord-Smith, was a bit flummoxed about how his country could participate in the Games. “We don’t really do nomads,” he said. Then, an inspiration: Scotsmen!

Oddball sports involving trials of strength, skill and dexterity? Check. Exotic national dress? Check. Tribes? Clans! So he imported four men in kilts for an exhibition display of Highland games including the caber toss, which involves throwing the equivalent of a telephone poll end over end.

While there’s no sign the caber toss will join the roster of official sports any time soon, the Games are expanding beyond Kyrgyzstan’s borders. Turkey will host the 2020 version.

“In a globalized world, people forget their cultures, what sets them apart,” said Mr. Subanov, the visiting accountant. “It is more interesting to live in a world with different nations, different cultures. It would not be good for the whole world to become New York.”

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