Maia wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:41 am
We all know it, I assume, the feeling that certain places have some sort of indefinable spiritual power or significance. In other words, they are numinous. But what causes this, and does it vary from person to person? Do Christians, for example, have this feeling inside churches? Perhaps they do, though I find churches to be quite lifeless and uninviting, even the medieval ones that are potentially interesting for historical reasons. For me, at least, I don't think I've had the feeling anywhere indoors at all. Outside, in nature, it's very different, but even then, certain specific locations stand out as being particularly powerful, where your skin literally tingles. For this reason I've often thought that the feeling may be derived from something physical, such as electro-magnetism, but I suppose this would only apply if everyone could agree which places were special in this way. I strongly suspect, though, that our early ancestors were fully aware of this phenomenon, and that this formed the basis of the first religious beliefs.
I think it's electromagnetism mainly. I know very little about the topic, because somehow electromagnetism is a thing that seems to elude my intuition. So I'll just throw around a few words like a drunk, that may be totally incorrect.
The human body may have all kinds of EM fields, plants and animals may have all kinds of EM fields. These fields come into contact to some degree, we may have evolved for millions of years, being shaped by the electromagnetic environment.
Crystals and crystal caves may block EM radiation making people calmer. People sometimes claim to have the strangest experiences when they are close to ball lightning. Then there's the Feng Shui, they may look for good and bad electromagnetic places, caused by underground water flow, or something like that.
Human consciousness may be centered around electromagnetism. Maybe what we call the human mind, is mostly what the EM field that is kept in place by the brain, is "like".
The entire planet may be like an electromagnetic tuning fork, that resonates on the Schumann frequencies. It's possible that people found these frequencies thousands of years ago, and created for example the OM meditation based on it.
I think there was an experiment where they tried to put people into an electromagneticly sterile place, to see what happens, and they developed mental problems, but I'm not sure I remember correctly.
So such places may have certain electromagnetic properties that have noticable effects on us.
Personally I get a bigger effect from a big rainstorm than from any place. I'm one of those people who find them soooooo relaxing. Maybe this also has to do with electromagnetism, and/or maybe it's because the sound of the rain quenches all the other small noises, that I otherwise always hear.