By Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Claiming Sacred GroundPilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and SedonaAdrian J. IvakhivA research of individuals and politics at New Age non secular sites.In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv specializes in the actions of pilgrim-migrants to Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona. He discusses their efforts to come across and event the spirit or strength of the land and to mark out its importance by means of making an investment it with sacred meanings. Their endeavors are provided opposed to a wide canvas of cultural and environmental struggles linked to the incorporation of such geographically marginal areas into an increasing international cultural financial system. Ivakhiv sees those contested and "heterotopic" landscapes because the nexus of a fancy net of interestes and longings: from millennial anxieties and nostalgic re-imaginings of heritage and prehistory; to real-estate energy grabs; contending spiritual visions; and the unfastened play of rules from technology, pseudo-science, and pop culture. Looming over all this is often the nonhuman lifetime of those landscapes, an"otherness" that alternately finds and conceals itself at the back of a pagenant of ideals, photographs, and place-myths.A major contribution to scholarship on substitute spirituality, sacred area, and the politics of traditional landscapes, Claiming Sacred flooring will curiosity students and scholars of environmental and cultural experiences, and the sociology of non secular pursuits and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers should be motivated through the cultural, ecological, and non secular dimensions of striking normal landscapes. Adrian Ivakhiv teaches within the college of Environmental stories at York college in Toronto, and is President of the Environmental reviews organization of Canada.April 2001384 pages, 24 b&w pictures, 2 figs., nine maps, 6 1/8 x nine 1/4, index, append.cloth 0-253-33899-9 $37.40 s / ?28.50 ContentsI DEPARTURES 1 strength and hope in Earth's Tangled internet 2 Reimagining Earth three Orchestrating Sacred SpaceII Glastonbury four level, Props, and avid gamers of Avalon five Many Glastonburys: Place-Myths and Contested SpacesIII SEDONA 6 crimson Rocks to actual property 7 New Agers, Vortexes, and the Sacred LandscapeIV ARRIVALS eight Practices of position: Nature and Heterotopia past the recent Age
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New Age and ecospiritual models of nature intersect with scientific, popular, and environmentalist discourses in various ways. Much New Age writing is anthropocentric, understanding the human role to be that of a “global brain” or “Gaia’s nervous system” (Russell 1984) and emphasizing our divine potentials and our technological capacities to take control over evolution (W. , Marx Hubbard 1994:79). , Oates 1989). Sociologist Michael York observes that “at best, New Age flourishes as an unresolved dialectic between the idea of Nature as Real and Nature as Illusion, between the immanentist pagan concept of pantheism and the transcendental gnostic concept of theism, between a numinous materialism and a world-denying idealism” (1994:16).
From Alfred Watkins’s original “straight track” notion of leys, then, we have arrived at a view which sees invisible but perceptible energies circulating in currents through the landscape—“etheric” or “subtle” energies 26 departures which can be directed and manipulated for good or ill like the qi or prana of Eastern medicine. One of the ways in which these energies can be perceived is through dowsing, that is, divining with metal rods, twigs, or other aids. 8 “Once alight in the USA,” ley researchers Pennick and Devereux note with some ambivalence, the “energy ley” theory “knew no bounds.
Contemporary discourses of nature ishing web of life; a storehouse of resources; an Edenic Garden that should be set aside in protected areas, to be visited periodically for the replenishment of one’s soul; a museum or theme park for curiosity seekers, or an open-air gymnasium for trials of masculinity; a cybernetic system or data bank of circulating information; a spirit or divinity, or a locus for the residence of many spirits; and an avenging angel, capriciously and unpredictably meting out its inhuman justice to a humanity that has transgressed its natural order (cf.