That's very interesting! (Also I thought this post might provoke a response from you.)
One of the things I've discovered since moving back to the east coast from California-- and after having spent the 7 years prior expanding my psychic awareness through daily magical practice-- is just how very different the different states *feel* here. I regularly travel from my home in central Maryland to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. There is a brief stretch of road that goes through Virginia itself. Each state feels different. You're in Virginia for all of five minutes, but you feel the presence of the Old Dominion in all its aristocratic glory, before you arrive in West Virginia.
Crossing the Mason-Dixon into PA is also very dramatic. Even as a child I noticed this-- we used to spend our summers in Maryland, and it always felt different from Pennsylvania. And you feel the difference the moment you cross the border, even though the climate, the geology, the ecosystem are identical. Currently Pennsylvania feels rather like a prison state, unfortunately, but that's a different subject. My point is that the older states have strong and well-defined identities. Every time I visit Gettysburg-- I'm fond of both the town and its battlefield-- I wonder how Lee could have made the decisions he did. I wonder if what I'm discussing here doesn't have something to do with it. In Virginia, Lee had the aid of the spirit of Virginia itself; in Pennsylvania, he was on hostile ground, not just physically but astrally.
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Date: 2021-03-08 07:23 pm (UTC)One of the things I've discovered since moving back to the east coast from California-- and after having spent the 7 years prior expanding my psychic awareness through daily magical practice-- is just how very different the different states *feel* here. I regularly travel from my home in central Maryland to Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. There is a brief stretch of road that goes through Virginia itself. Each state feels different. You're in Virginia for all of five minutes, but you feel the presence of the Old Dominion in all its aristocratic glory, before you arrive in West Virginia.
Crossing the Mason-Dixon into PA is also very dramatic. Even as a child I noticed this-- we used to spend our summers in Maryland, and it always felt different from Pennsylvania. And you feel the difference the moment you cross the border, even though the climate, the geology, the ecosystem are identical. Currently Pennsylvania feels rather like a prison state, unfortunately, but that's a different subject. My point is that the older states have strong and well-defined identities. Every time I visit Gettysburg-- I'm fond of both the town and its battlefield-- I wonder how Lee could have made the decisions he did. I wonder if what I'm discussing here doesn't have something to do with it. In Virginia, Lee had the aid of the spirit of Virginia itself; in Pennsylvania, he was on hostile ground, not just physically but astrally.