After my talk at the Universalist Unitarian church in Auburn yesterday we surveyed several places around Owasco, Otisco and eastern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes. It was a very cold and windy day with wind chills below zero—but the sun was out bright and beautiful.
Most of the area we surveyed is covered with negative geographic samskaras http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/Samskaras.html . We did find some places that are worth further investigation and should possibly be written up.
Auburn, NY has some phenomenal features but unfortunately much of the area is now caked over with very negative samskaras. A lot of great souls have been attracted to the area such has Harriet Tubman, Frances and William Seward,…Ft. Hill cemetery sits on an old Spirit Keepers http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/SpiritKeepers.html site consisting of several mounds and numerous fields and stacked fields of consciousness http://www.gaiassoul.org/ . Unfortunately, a Cayuga Indian chief decided to turn this most sacred of sites into a military fort. Then settlers built a cemetery upon it. All of which make parts of it quite nasty.
Emerson Park http://www.co.cayuga.ny.us/parks/emerson/directions.html on the northern shore Owasco Lake has some nice features. Nothing outstanding—but nice. Great views of the lake. The vibe or samskaras were, okay for most of the park. A single field of consciousness is found by the trees near the dog run area; a little north of there.
I found one Spirit Keepers site (where they prayed) by the trees. The fact that not a lot of sacred sites existed in an area with such majestic landscapes and FT. Hill was full of them tells me that Spirit Keepers were more attuned with and concerned with mother earth than those that followed, particularly settlers. Today we are all too quick to build a place of worship, or perceive of the sacred, at a place that has pleasant aesthetic features rather than a place that allows for a soulful connection.
Union Springs http://www.co.cayuga.ny.us/unionsprings/ rests on the eastern shore of Onondaga Lake. In the center of the town is a park where a Cayuga village once stood. A few Haudenosaunee sacred sites can be found on the burm at the lake side of the pond.
Great Gully Falls, Union Springs http://www.naturalhighs.net/waterfalls/falls02/greatgully.htm a mile or so south of Union Springs on rte 90 just below the intersection with Great Gully Road, about a 100 feet south of the monuments to the Sullivan campaign of massacre. Several Native sacred sites can be found on the ledge to the north where the falls begins. The area is overwhelmed by the negative samskaras http://www.jubileeinitiative.org/Samskaras.htm created by all the killing and violence that has occurred in the area. Very Bad! One must wonder whether this was the work of Sullivan himself or a place where violence has gone on for eons before.
Long Point State Park http://www.hikercentral.com/campgrounds/108357.html the samskaras were so bad and the wind so bitter that we did not spend much time there. As I have said before, waterside locations have been inhabited for eons and have been fought over for eons—creating a very bad vibe. And unless they have some positive features of mother earth and people that have inhabited the places have earnestly taken prayer to heart they are generally to be avoided. A Bad vibe.
Sherwood—Holland Stone Store Museum—Underground Railroad Site--http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycayuga/howland/index.htm SWEET!! The museum was closed when we were there. It sits on a stacked (3) filed of consciousness http://www.gaiassoul.org/ and has got a great vibe. This place definitely deserves another look and some soulful time. Retired Oswego Historian Judy Wellman spoke about the store and her work in Sherwood at a conference last summer in Auburn on the women’s movement.
The Holland Stone store underscores the notion that people are drawn to place and the place shapes their consciousness.
Moravia United Methodist Church http://www.christumcmoravia.org/ --we were pleasantly surprised while driving through Moravia and drawn to the city center and the UMC church. The church was closed when we were there, but we could tell that it sits on a stacked field of consciousness (3) http://www.gaiassoul.org/ and has a great vibe. I found a few sacred sites outside the church and I imagine that there are more inside. The church is definitely worth a visit and a possible write-up.
Skinner Hill Road out of Moravia http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=skinner+hill+road+moravia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl is just north of the Fillmore Glen and may even be next to DEC land that is part of the park. It had a good vibe and there appeared to be several fields of consciousness. I need to go back in the spring and summer and take look. It holds promise.
Otisco Lake Park http://syr-area.com/cny-parks/otisco-lake-park.html There is a stacked field of consciousness (2) on the northern side of the park near the water. There are also numerous sacred sites by the water. It was getting late, but the park needs to be visited again.
All said we had a very fruitful and fun day
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