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A guide to 200 sacred, spirit-awakening, and restorative destinations-- as well as inspiring quotes, key travel information, and special healing exercises to complete at each location-- to start your journey to spiritual wellness. Theres power in places! From Sedona, Lourdes, or even Tulum, this wellness-focused guide will show you the best sites to visit to get in touch with your spiritual side. Find inspiration with quotes from renowned spiritual leaders, enjoy full-color photos to help you prepare your travel wish list, learn more about legendary locations around the world, and start planning your next trip today.

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I NTRODUCTION

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H umans have long sought sacred places to express their faith, find meaning, gain guidance, receive healing, mourn a loss, and experience renewal. From Mecca to the energy vortexes of Sedona, Arizona, and from the sacred stones of Stonehenge in England to Crater Lake in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, these hallowed places are as varied as the people who visit them.

These mystical environments, which are often associated with mysterious energies or special powers, can serve as oases for an arid heart or lift a spiritually yearning soul. In sacred places, you can engage in a rite of passage, light a ceremonial candle, meditate, pay homage to your ancestors, or simply offer a few words of gratitude to the people or forces of nature that created such a wonder.

This book is your guide to two hundred sacred places throughout the world. These transformative sites range from hidden grottoes, natural springs, red-colored cliffs, and ancient stone circles to vaulted-ceilinged cathedrals, massive megaliths, stone pyramids, intricately carved temples, and totems. There are even entire towns, mountain ranges, seemingly endless rivers, ancient forests, and Iron Age ring forts that are considered sacred in some traditions.

Your spiritual journey can take you all over the world. On the following pages, youll find different icons for the geographic location where each destination is found:

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Explore your spirituality. Visit one or more of the many sacred sites in the world to pay respect, meditate, reflect, perform a ritual, or follow the ancient cycle of prayerthat is, praise, worship, and listen. Then let inspiration guide you into action. Repeat the cycle, inspired by the spirits of the sacred places you visit.

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Baalbek, Lebanon

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides (ca. 480406 B.C. ), Greek playwright

A fter Alexander the Great conquered and Hellenized Baalbek, changing its name to Heliopolis, the Romans assimilated their deities Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus with the indigenous deities Baal (Lord), Aliyan (Baals son), and Anat (Baals daughter and Aliyans consort). Then, on a hilltop in Heliopolis, the Romans spent two hundred years building the Acropolis of Baalbekone of the largest and finest temple complexes of the Greco-Roman period. For centuries, people worshipped at the monument and at the round Temple of Venus, goddess of love and tutelary deity of the acropolis.

If you wish to safeguard your love or to contemplate religious tolerance, journey to Baalbek. The best way to tour this World Heritage site is with a local guide. Baalbek is a major town in eastern Lebanon, accessible by road from Beirut (nearest airport) and Damascus, Syria.

Soothe Your Spirit

Bring a small stone symbolizing romantic love (red, heart-shaped) or Divine love (white, thunderbolt-shaped). Carry your love talisman as you stroll around the site, soaking in the sacred power of this former city of love and grace.

A Deeper Look

In 1200 B.C. , long before the Romans arrived, the Canaanites built a sanctuary here, where they honored Astarte, goddess of love and fertility. Archaeologists believe that the Assyrians, Phoenicians, and Israelites may have also worshipped at this site.

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Athens, Attica, Greece

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes (ca. 287212 B.C. ), Greek mathematician and intuitive

T his Byzantine church stands below the ancient Acropolis of Athens and along the agora (open-air place of assembly), where saints, philosophers, and orators imparted their ideology and insights to all within earshot. The rose-colored brick exterior features lovely crenulated arches over narrow wooden doors and a heavy metal bell hanging from a large protruding stone (as no bell tower exists) as well as white stone benches in the courtyard. Inside, ornate Corinthian columns support the arches of a dome adorned with frescoes of cherubs, angels, John the Baptist, and the Christ Pantocrator (Almighty, or Sustainer of the World).

Whether you seek spiritual sustenance or enlightenment, include this lovely church in your visit to Athens. Agii Apostoli Solaki, in the heart of the city, is best seen on foot. Entrance is free.

Soothe Your Spirit

Take refuge from the suns heat and your racing thoughts in the churchs cool, calm interior. Standing under the domes frescoes, pray for the assurance or guidance you seek. Before continuing your exploration of Athens, sit on one of the outside benches and reflect on the sacred message sent to your heart by the apostles, or perhaps Christ Pantocrator.

A Deeper Look

The church was built in the tenth century A.D. over a second-century nymphaion (sacred spring) honoring nymphs, the nurturing water deities of Greek mythology.

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Ajanta, Maharashtra, India

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (563483 B.C. ), father of Buddhism

O n the cliff of a deep forest ravine overlooking the Waghora River in the Sahyadri Hills of southern India is a sacred treasure: twenty-nine rock-cut caves used as Buddhist monasteries and temples from the second century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. The tenacity it took to chisel these monuments out of volcanic rock is testament to spiritual devotion. The beauty of the friezes of the Buddha and bodhisattvas adorning the walls and ceilings of the caves speaks to the liberating light of such devotion.

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