Just as I was drawn to exploring the 'Sacred Space' within, I was attracted to exploring Sacred Places externally.

I found them 'manifestations''of focused energy, brilliant design, superb craftsmanship based on 'sacred geometry', positioning and alignment on the Earth's grid or positions of the stars and sun,  products of deep devotion, and often unfathomed technology and forgotten knowledge.

Many were from ancient times and were treated and seen virtually as museum pieces, but underneath appearances, to me, there always seemed to be an energy, a vibration, infused by the devotion and creativity in their building, and was quite intoxicating and still uplifted the spirit.

 There are still ancient places keeping this vibrancy of spirit alive through the devotion of their current 'followers'. 

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Equally, I viewed creating personal 'sacred place' as invaluable too, as  Joseph Campbell said:

Sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know

what was in the newspapers that morning,

you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody,

you don’t know what anybody owes to you.

This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth

what you are and what you might be.

This is the place of creative incubation.

At first you may find that nothing happens there.

But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

I made it a point to always visit a temple or sacred place in each country I visited, and to say 'Thank you' for sharing your country with me.

Desiring to regenerate rather than degenerate, and just have the pure unadulterated experience any form of intoxicant had fallen away a long time ago as I drew closer to the 'internal intoxicant', following Baba's advice "Smoke the Mantra"

But what was next?

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