Significant acceleration of meditative development of consciousness can be attained at special “places of power”.
This term was introduced by Mexican Indian Juan Matus (don Juan), whose experience was described by Carlos Castaneda [10]. This term denotes special places whose energetic characteristics materially (for human beings) differ from the background level.
The “places of power” can be classified into positive and negative ones according to the effect they produce on people.
Negative “places of power” can induce anger, depression, terror, anxiety, sensation of strange discomfort or of drunken “knock-out” etc. Staying at these places can cause diseases, coarsening of consciousness and even death, especially if one makes a home at one of them.
I particularly remembered one large place like this, located to the west of Magnitogorsk city, near the Ural mountain range. We were driving across this place on a rather flat highway. Along the both sides of it there were numerous tomb crosses — this is how they traditionally mark the places of automotive accidents with lethal outcomes in this area. My companions, who lived in Magnitogorsk, explained that this had always been a mystery for everyone why so many drivers and passengers died there on a smooth section of the road and not somewhere in the mountain area.
This placed induced the state, which occurs if one has drinks too much alcohol and in addition to this smokes a cigarette. Those who know how it feels can easily imagine what happens to a tired driver there, especially during the night snow or rainstorm.
There was also a village on that “place of power” — it looked gray and depressed, with no people or animals in sight. I detected the “epicenter” even before we approached it. It turned out to be right in the center of that village. When we drove closer to it we saw several abandoned half-ruined houses: all people were dying in them apparently, nobody could live there...
Surely, I wanted to help all those poor fellows. But how could I say anything about that? Who would believe?
“Places of power” are not necessarily that big. They can be as large as several kilometers, or just hundreds of meters or even one meter in diameter. Sometimes one can encounter an energetical column one meter wide through all floors of a high-rise building...
Sometimes I managed to destroy forever small negative “places of power” in dwelling houses, sometimes not.
Locating “places of power” using “instruments” like bio-location frames or pendulums is not effective. One can get full set of features of the “places of power” — by both their qualitative and quantitative characteristics — only by feeling them personally: with oneself as consciousness. But one can learn this method only on the Spiritual Path — through refinement of consciousness and by acquiring fluidity in moving along the entire scale of subtlety-coarseness.
The above said also relates to positive “places of power”. And they can be so wonderful!
They can provide us with standards of subtlety or shape consciousness in various ways, filling this shape with its own energy. They can heal various diseases by washing the bodies through with fountains of healing energy or just by infusing the excess of its healing power, adequate for a particular organ. They also can get one into a “not-I” state — this state cannot be explained in word. It can only be experienced, but it is a necessary experience, nonetheless... They can help entering the highest eons, make for cognition of Atman or be favorite places of Divine teachers for appointments with worthy disciples...
People can walk on these Holy Places without noticing them. But the ecologist of multidimensional space, who is a spiritual devotee and spiritual seeker — should learn how to find and use them.
