Sacred Sites of the West [Paperback]

Bernyce Barlow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 2002

This guide takes readers on a journey through the United States and explains how the earth's energies can heal, rejuvenate and effect dreams. Dream spots, healing centres, goddess and warrior sites, temples and vision caves are just a few of the sites listed. Colour photographs, holy history, earth physics and legends make up an integral part of each site narration, to help readers understand what makes each site so precious.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

While science has given us a concrete understanding of the atom and has taken man to the moon, we have become ignorant of things as ancient as ley lines. (Originating at power centers, ley lines crisscross the earth to form an energy grid. Monuments such as Stonehenge are often located at power centers.) Bernyce Barlow attempts to counter this lack of knowledge by taking us on a tour of places in the western United States that ancient cultures knew to be charged by special energies but with which modern science has lost touch. More than just a tour guide, Barlow explains the theories of ion flows, Earth physics, and ley lines so that we not only know the "where" but the "why" and the best ways to experience the energies that exist in these places.

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In this unusual travel guide, Barlow, a Californian and retired educator and abuse therapist, describes natural energy centers throughout the American West, Hawaii, and Mexico. Biofields, the physics of matter, and energy anomalies have created natural phenomena that have the ability to influence us spiritually, mentally, and physically, she notes. Barlow particularly appeals to women as she describes goddess and warrior sites, centers of emergence, balance and harmony, petroglyphs, and springs and mountains that have powerful spirits of place. Although she cautions us to come prepared to these sacred sites, she provides no practical advice, directions, or traditional travel-guide information such as lodging and meals. Recommended only where interest in New Age topics is high.?Janine A. Reid, Jefferson Cty. P.L., Lakewood, Colo.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (September 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567180566
• ISBN-13: 978-1567180565
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,836,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Native American Review, January 18, 2001

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William Two Feather (NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sacred Sites of the West (Paperback)

This book is instrumental to understanding the basics of SacredSites...Barlow's insightfull and easy to understand format isrefreshing. The way the chapters are small provides for pick it up ~read & do it all over kind of refreshing reading. I feel thisshould be a textbook for schools and required reading for spirituallyorientated courses to provide a fundamental foundation to continuestudes from.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much More Than a Basic Book of Scared Places!, December 9, 2007

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W. H. McDonald Jr. "The American Author Assoc... (Elk Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred Sites of the West (Paperback)

I was expecting something much less when I bought this book back in 1997 - what a pleasant surprise to find that the author Bernyce Barlow actually was giving the reader more than a geographic travel book. She actually has some insightful observations and comments about these places. Her own understanding of their importance in our own search for personal sacredness in life comes across in this book.

She covers all the known places like Mount Shasta and the City of Refuge in Hawaii - but she also comes up with some that new - at least to me. One in particular she refers to as the "Lourdes of America" - a little adobe chapel in New Mexico. So I felt that I got more than my money's worth out of this old tattered and torn and yellowing book that is about 10 years old now. I have personally gone though a couple of thousand books in the last decade but have kept only a significant few dozen - of which this volume is one.

If you live in the west, or want to travel out west - you should by all means get a copy of this book to use as a travel guide. It is well written and easy to follow. The photos are a wonderful addition to the book. Her maps of the locations are general but one has no problem locating them on a real map or on Map Quest to find out how to get there. This book is also good for the arm chair traveler who cannot get out there and physically explore these places - the author makes them come alive for the reader and there is some value to be gained from just reading about them in her book.

I personally recommend this book for all "spiritual journeys".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it really hit's home for me ... thank's bernice for the info, November 25, 1998

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This review is from: Sacred Sites of the West (Paperback)

Nov.1998 We live in an area that has established ,documented protected archaological sites that were once occupied by the Nisinen and later the Maidu in No. California. ancient sacred wells,tooling sights,grinding holes complete with mataties (grinding stones)and this all is on or within a lay/Cathay line. Bernice's book has helped us understand what is going on and why we experience "waves" of energy fluctuations in our area. Her book helped us locate the right place to call home. Thanks Bernice! Were looking forward to your next book. Sincerly Bri Bri n Patti.