I had the pleasure of staying at the home of a friend for a few flawless fall days a couple of weeks ago. In appreciation, I looked into some of the conditions around a ley line that I'd discovered running through their property.
Below is my report.
Firstly,
many thanks for letting us stay in your beautiful abode.
Your land,
sloping as it does toward the Hudson near Red Hook, NY, with the dramatic
vertical house perched on the edge of a ridge, was in beautiful glowing fall colors
the entire time we were there. The skies
were flawlessly blue, and the days warm and beckoning.
I expected
to spend some time grooming the ley line that crosses your land, but was
surprised to find that the land itself needed the work, and that the healed
land would then support the ley line.
And even more surprising to me was that only one kind of healing was
needed.
One of the
principals of Feng Shui is that all compositions of Nature, construction materials
included, are permeable to human emotions.
Any place where humans have been living for decades, loving; fighting;
yelling; or sitting in serenity, typically has a huge backlog of stagnant emotions
to be cleared away through various methods.
Your place was very different, as the house is new and the land mostly
uninhabited at the time you purchased it.
And the energy work needed was very, very focused: Battle Energy Release Process.
What battle? Mark jousting with the contractors? Squabbles between Mark and Gloria? Both seemed unlikely to be so overwhelming
that they blanketed every other history of the land. Such an intense battle must have been pitched
with very high emotions and vicious, even deadly intent. Then, when I tested for the century this
battle was supposed to have taken place, I had my answer.
In the mid-1750s
the Wappinger and Lenape tribes still occupied much of Dutchess County and
adjacent areas, both branches of the Delaware Nation (http://www.hopefarm.com/dutches1.htm).
The former were known for intricate and beautiful baskets, the latter
for ceramics. They made their livelihood
from both river and forest, probably enjoying a rich and comfortable
existence. There may have been territorial
conflicts, but if I had to guess, I would bet they were invaded by the Mohicans
of the Iroquois Nation, another branch of the Delaware peoples.
The Iroquois
Nation occupied the middle of New York State, across the river from you, and
the Mohican branch was to the North, near Saratoga (http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028833030/cu31924028833030_djvu.txt,
Chapter 2, paragraphs 12-18), all
areas of which happen to be some of the richest agricultural land in the
country.
At the end
of their empire, the Iroquois were trapped between the French coming down from
Canada, and the British soldiers coming from the south. Both sides were happy to play the Native
Americans off against the other side during the French & Indian war, but
their ultimate defeat came at the hands of the British soldiers. The Brits, good farm boys all, were
astonished at what they found when they finally overran Iroquois
strongholds. They found warehouses with
an estimated one million bushels of corn.
They found corn standing in the fields 18 feet tall. They found corn cobs a foot and a half
long. All of this wealth was produced in
a system so efficient that it could be maintained by the women, children, and
elderly of the tribe, which left the younger men free and unoccupied - never a
good thing.
When I came
to New York from Michigan I was amazed to hear that there were Native American
reservations in the state – I’d never heard of such a thing. It wasn’t until recently that I learned that
the dearth of reservations in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is most likely due
to the Iroquois. Their backlogs of grain
allowed the men to leave their villages for years at a time, on “hunting”
parties – actually war parties, that invaded, raped, killed, and if rumor is
correct, sometimes ate many smaller Native American settlements far and wide. The Iroquois invaded the Lower Peninsula, and
would have done the same to the Upper Peninsula, except that they ran into the
Ojibwa. The Ojibwa hunkered down, fought
dirty, sacrificed, martyred themselves and generally did all they could to
repel the Iroquois, leading to a major defeat.
In New York years
later the Iroquois were again defeated, along with the Mohicans, by
encroachment from settlers, and began streaming west to avoid troops, and later
the French & Indian Wars, which commenced in earnest in 1754. Most likely some defeated but still fierce
Mohicans fled across your land, encountering locals.
Now. Don’t get all spooked and confuse Indian
Battleground with Indian Burial Ground.
There do not seem to be any graves on your land. Perhaps the battle raged on elsewhere and the
wounded were nursed at another location.
I began to
wonder if there was a particular reason the two of you were drawn to this place. Some tests indicate there may have been
involvement by both of you in this epic battle.
I even mused for a while on the vertical design of the house – you have a three
bedroom, two bath house on something like a 25’ x 25’ footprint. You’ve walked gently on the land.
It didn’t
occur to me to ponder another important question until I got home. Yes, there are ghosts, 11 of them. I’ll heal them, too. Neither Gina nor I got any creepy feelings
while in the house, and we’re both sensitive in this area. They must be elsewhere on the land.
What we did
notice was the silence – dead silence.
An acorn falling from a tree was such a contrast to the quietude that it
woke Gina up in the night. Not even
insects were singing during parts of the daylight hours, yet they chirped
merrily in the woods and meadow at the end of your personal driveway. When we walked back up your driveway, silence
reigned again.
My work
consisted of approaching the spirits of the land in a somewhat shamanic manner,
and informing them that mankind was finally showing up to help clean up the battle
trauma. Gently encouraging Nature to
release this energy allows a more balanced and healthy state, a process that
takes about 72 hours, and then engagement in a slower, deeper healing. Due to the depth of healing nothing more
should be done for six months.
As a sweet
rejoinder, we saw a deer and two fawns, two woodchucks and a bat all within an
hour of my having completed my work.
