The Energy of a Place

     New Mexico for us, and for many before us, felt quite obviously holy. 
     If one walks into a room full of people, or someone's home, there's often a prevalent, almost palpable, energetic atmosphere. And so it seems to be with geographic locations. 
     It would seem reasonable to assume that the energy of each thought, word & action should more powerfully impact the environment in which it occurs, than more distant places.
    

     “Be always mindful of what you are doing and thinking. So that you may put the imprint of your immortality on every passing incident of your daily life.”    Abd’l-Khaliq Ghijdewani, 13^th century Sufi 

       Walsh R. “Essential spirituality. The 7 central practices to awaken heart and mind.” John Wiley & Sons Inc, NY, 1999.

Chernobyl

Mechanism Equals Ultimate Cause???

     "Addiction neuroscience has been valuably informed by animal models. ... The neurobiological power of these behavioral models has perhaps contributed to underemphasis of the subjective dimension of addiction, where the conscious experience of urge and tension during withdrawal may be treated as an epiphenomenon. ... Interoceptive models of emotion propose that subjective feelings ultimately arise from interoceptive signals."

     Gray MA, Critchley HD. Interoceptive basis to craving. Neuron. 2007;54(2):183-6.

     This wild leap, from animal MODEL - to - ULTIMATE CAUSE in HUMANS, is not characteristic of science. See: http://www.johnlovas.com/2014/03/science-scientism-what-it-means-to-be.html
    
     Subjective feelings are multi-factorial on the grandest scale, CAUSED BY everything that occurred previously - the entire biopsychosocialspiritual & genetic history of the human being experiencing them. Westward migration in North America was not CAUSED BY wagon wheels!

Steve McCurry   http://stevemccurry.com/