Hi Buck,
I'm going to respond atypically seriously to your query. Utrecht is only a few
minutes away from Leiden by train, and I'm sure that Dom Tower might be a nice
enough place to meditate if it were still part of a larger church, but it
isn't. The tower is now all that's left of it.
For more info, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Tower_of_Utrecht
But quite honestly if I were looking for a church to meditate in there are a
few nice ones here in Leiden. And to be even more honest, if I were looking to
meditate anywhere other than home, I actually prefer meditating in nature to
meditating in *supposed* "holy places" like churches.
Don't get me wrong...some churches and cathedrals in Europe *are* actually very
beautiful, and have a certain kind of stillness to them. It's *not* caused by
any "field effect," however, but by the intentional use of space and form by
the architects.
When it comes to "field effect," many of the churches and cathedrals of Europe
(such as the Papal Palace in Avignon) are IMO downright creepy and low-vibe,
possibly due to the fact that they were used by the Inquisition as locations in
which to torture and kill people.
One of the most interesting churches I've been to in Europe, in terms of my
interest in cults, religions, and the history of religious folly, is a large
cathedral in Uzès, France, where I spent a few weeks this past summer. When you
enter the church from the ground floor, you pass into a large room full of
traditional church pews, just like many other churches. But looking up, I
noticed that there were large balconies on both sides of the room. Balconies,
but no stairs leading to them. There was no way to get to the balconies from
within the church. This was a mystery I had to solve, so I asked around and
found the following odd story.
It turns out that in its heyday this was a Catholic cathedral, but there were
many Protestants in the town. To "save their souls," the Protestants were
*required* to attend Catholic mass every Sunday. Skip it, and you could be put
to death. But at the same time, you couldn't have these low-life Protestant
scum sitting side by side with the upscale Catholics now, could you? So they
built the two balconies and put doors and stairways leading to them on the
outside of the church. While the Catholics got to sit comfortably in the main
hall of the cathedral, the Protestants had to stand for the whole service,
crammed into the too-small-for-them balconies.
Go figure, eh? Just one of the many stories of religious conflict and craziness
here in Europe, and an illustration of why if I'm seeking a nice, silent place
to meditate, churches are not the first place that springs to my mind.
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 11:55 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: All you need to know about the differences
between US and Netherlands
Om TheDom Tower in Utrecht.. Dear Turqb, is the Dom anice place to go in to
meditate, spiritually? It is nearby to you?You could go there to meditate? Does
it hold a spiritual coherencegenerating field effect sort of like the Domes do
in Fairfield, Iowa? Which denomination was it built by? Just wondering if it
is a place that you could easily use if you were inclined spiritually to do
that, -Buck in Iowa
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