Santa Fe Light

When I say I “document” 111 geomantic features in the Santa Fe landscape temple, this means I provide visionary recitals of likely experiences in them. Visionary recital is a wonderful term from early Persian mysticism; mystics would have clairvoyant experiences inside Light temples they found in their landscape and then recount them in a somewhat formal but inspiring manner afterwards to their friends. So I report on my visits—and many times with colleagues, so I report theirs too—to many Light temples that co-exist with familiar physical structures around Santa Fe, sometimes churches, parks, the Plaza downtown, and other times pueblos, hills, rivers, or mountains. It can get a bit uncanny, for it becomes evident that two worlds overlap: the outer tangible world of trendy pueblo-style Santa Fe, the famous City Different, and an inner, previously unsuspected geomantic terrain of Light temples and spirits. Even more mysterious, or exciting, is the suggestion that these two worlds interact. That leads to my second research topic or reason for investigating Santa Fe this way. Does this inner geomantic landscape have a working relationship with our outer world? Does the collective of Light temples, their activities and spiritual beings, have a direct correlation with, even influence on, the town’s observed sociological qualities? Again the answer came up yes, and decidedly so. In fact, I’m prepared to suggest that the underlying geomantic pattern, Santa Fe Light, has a profound determining effect on all aspects of Santa Fe life and that we could, without inflation or exaggeration, say that even if we’re unaware of it, we all participate in a marvelous lucid dream in which our outer, apparent lives co-participate in a greater spiritual reality, one, in fact, that actually implicates—better: involves—the entire galaxy.