BEN-BEN

August 2024: Sacred Sites

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Visiting sacred sites and places of power is an essential part of building a Ben-Ben pyramid. We often collect elements like water and stones from powerful places and bring crystals and completed pyramids into portals and vortexes to activate them.

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Because of my extensive work in this area I was invited to write an essay for the new Taschen/ Library of Esoterica book, Sacred Sites. Below is the full essay. 

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Like meditation, ritual and other esoteric practices, a pilgrimage to a powerful sacred site is a way to access something outside of linear time and space. When we relate solely to a linear, finite reality, our understanding is limited, our intuition diminished, and our existence can feel small and unsatisfying. Sometimes even if we can feel the presence of a dormant wisdom or power within us, we don’t have the method or energy to access or understand it. But once we get even a subconscious glimpse of our potential we begin our search for the keys to unlock it. We are intuitively drawn to the energies, practices and places that can help us access past life attainments and deepen our understanding of our true nature. This isn’t always a conscious process. We can be drawn to the same place time and time again without understanding why it calls out to our soul. Sometimes we are called to a site because there is a gift or element waiting there for us there that will be instrumental in activating higher levels of consciousness. Retrieving it can happen completely outside conscious awareness, and over time may reveal itself as a slow dawning of understanding, but also might be experienced as a flash of insight or a “download” of knowledge or power. If we have a strong enough of a relationship to a place, there might be several layers of energy that we are meant to access, and so we return many times in search of those elements. 

If a site is powerful enough, it overwhelms and by-passes linear time and finite reality, and in that amplified space we can more easily access other realms and timelines. Prayers & rituals are more amplified, not only because the power of the place adds to and amplifies the power of the practitioner, but because the veils are thinner. There’s an opening in the matrix, and prayers and intentions can penetrate further into the cosmos and into all the collected realities and realms of existence. And because sacred sites are often found along leylines, the energy of whatever is done there can easily travel long distances across the globe, traversing the leyline energy highway. 

Every sacred site has its own energetic signature, and depending on our configuration that energy can create a sympathetic resonance within us, sometimes releasing a cascade of past incarnational memories or activating a dormant wisdom or power.

Certain practices are more powerful when there’s a matching energy at a particular site. The Maratika Cave in Nepal, for instance, is one of the most powerful places on the planet to perform the Tibetan Buddhist Long Life Ritual. 

A site often holds multiple streams of energy and can be a collection of portals to multiple timelines. Glastonbury England, for instance, is an intersection of ancient Druid energy, the fairy realms, King Arthur and the Holy Grail, early Christianity and then the unknown neolithic pre-Druid civilization that created the pyramidal hill of the Tor and the stone circle that once stood on top of it. 
So many of the ancient churches and cathedrals were built on top of pagan sites of worship, and often the pagans themselves were practicing in places that, like in the case of Stonehenge, had been built thousands of years prior. For millennia there has been an understand that practicing on sacred sites and the portals, vortexes and leylines that they are often built upon magnifies the power of the individual and their practice. When used in the most positive way, with the best intention, these sacred sites can help us access and unlock the greatest parts of ourselves.