Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00265)

Very interesting Paul. In my thirty odd years with the Mormons, I never
really felt anything special standing in those historical places,
including the Hill Cumorah and the Sacred Grove in Palmyra. In fact I
never really felt anything special in the most sacred rooms of the
temples.

That said, I DO feel a certain pull to this area. My family goes back
quite far in this area, in some lines as many as eleven and twelve
generation, in most, five or six and the least four. While many friends
and many branchs of my family have moved elsewhere, for some reason my
own line can't break out. I went to California for one year in 1980-81
and had to come back. One of my sons swore he would move somewhere else
and never return. Never happened. My father went to Naples, Florida, on
the heels of quite a number of his friends, built a house there and was
back in six years. At eighty, he says he has come home to die. How many
people move to Florida and leave? So in this case, its the local area we
all have lived in for many years. We eat local and homegrown veggies,
raised out of this soil. Thus the very atoms of the earth from around
here are part and parcel of our beings. These "little lives" that make up
our bodies, just how influential are they? Is there a resonance between
ourselves and the land? I believe so and have long before i was ever a
theosophist.

So what of ancestral places. I am far removed from most of them. But I do
feel a certain tug from Germany, England, Denmark, Holland and Ireland.
Most of my ancestry is German and the pull is greatest there. I have
never been to any of these places, but I feel a certain longing to stand
where my ancesters did. I forgot to put on my book list my strong
interest in Plantagenet England and the Frankish Empire. That's
ancestral. But I feel an equal strong pull towards Egypt. So is due to
places and peoples I have actually been connected with in past lives
rather than biological ancestry? Or is it a combination of both? 

Let's see what some others have to say.

Larry 



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