Katy Pelchy
Place Mirrors Consciousness
Landscapes of the Sacred
“The spiritual experience of passage from one state of consciousness to another is often mirrored in the simultaneous passage from one particular place to another.”
In my experience, I have found this to often be true. Especially in the passage from a man-made, separated place to a natural, free setting. You can’t help but feel the change in atmosphere and the resultant change in mindset. For instance, a home is structured by nature. Everything usually has its place, and everything you see is processed, built, and put together by man. Nothing is left as natural besides maybe some plants that still grow in a confined pot. Everything is confined and set as a boundary, and therefore the consciousness of a person is going to have the same characteristics. The only stimulus for thought in a room is what is there, so the mind is also confined in its thought. In a natural environment, however, everything as far as one can see is open space. The atmosphere is one of reckless abandon and freedom, since there is no boundary (at least in a true wilderness), and nothing to block your train of thought. My mind becomes free in nature, and I find myself thinking of things that I never would have thought of in a man-made enclosure. Epiphanies happen for me in nature, since it’s like a weight has been lifted from my mind. It is the only time I feel truly free, and therefore it is the only time that my mind is free also.
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