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WORLD AROUND US
Sacred Earth: A Journey to the World’s Holy Places with Martin Gray - P2/2
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From the majestic
Himalayan Mountains
to ancient Jerusalem
and Mecca, sacred places
around the world
have a deep and spiritual
meaning for many
of the world’s religions.
Some holy sites
are natural and
some are human-made;
some are famous,
some are less known;
some are grand and some
are of a humble nature,
yet they all share
the same sanctity that
has called forth reverence
throughout the ages.
Today on
The World Around Us,
we will journey
to some of the most
consecrated locations
around the world
with anthropologist
and photographer,
Martin Gray.
Mr. Gray
has traveled the world
to visit more than
1,000 holy places
in over 80 countries.
His photographic works
have been published
in National Geographic
and his own
Places of Peace and Power
website which
has received more than
25 million visitors.
In 2007, Sacred Earth
was published
as a photographic atlas
of holy places
around the globe and
will soon be available
in Japanese and Russian.
Mr. Gray has been
invited to numerous
conferences worldwide
to give his presentations
on hallowed sites.
Let us now continue
our conversation
with Mr. Martin Gray
about these blessed places.
It was
in the United States
of America that
Mr. Gray experienced
his first sacred site on
the glistening white sands
of New Mexico.
The White Sands
National Monument is
the largest gypsum dune
fields in the world,
covering 275 square miles.
The Americas
are also graced with
other sacred spots
such as Mount Shasta
in California, USA;
Medicine Lake in Canada;
the Church of El Sisne
in Ecuador;
Lake Titicaca in Bolivia;
and the Irazu Volcano
in Costa Rica,
among many others.
Mr. Gray describes some
of the special pyramids
he has visited in Mexico.
There are some
other sacred sites
around the world
that have pyramids.
Teotihuacan in Mexico,
outside of Mexico City,
has a pyramid there
that may be older
than most orthodox
archaeologists say.
Across the Atlantic,
the European continent
also has many holy sites.
From Armenia’s
Holy Etchmiadzin
to England’s Stonehenge
to Russia’s
Monastery of Trinity,
these places attract
faithful pilgrims
from around the world.
Mr. Gray talks about
the history of two
Marian shrine destinations:
Lourdes in France
and Fatima in Portugal.
Bernadette Soubirous
had all of these visions,
where a feminine
apparition happened.
It said it was
the daughter of God.
There is this young woman
that saw this water
come out of the ground
and this apparition
manifested to her
and talked to her.
Same thing,
Lourdes and Fatima,
1917, I think.
So those places became
pilgrimage sites by virtue
of the people that came.
The birthplace of
some of the world’s
great past Masters,
such as Lord Jesus,
Prophet Muhammad,
Peace Be Upon Him,
Prophet Zoroaster
and Bahá'u'lláh,
is in the Middle East.
Spiritual seekers are
naturally drawn
to this holy land.
Among sacred places
in the Middle East
are Jerusalem,
Bethlehem, Petra,
and Pir-e-Sabz shrine.
One of the holiest sites
visited is
Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
As the birthplace of
both Prophet Muhammad
and the Islam religion,
all Muslims
make the pilgrimage
to this revered land
at least once in their life
if circumstances permit.
I’ve been to Mecca.
There were
1.1 million people
in the great Mosque
in the building,
and another three million
really close
around the mosque.
It’s beautiful.
There's
an Islamic sacred site
in western Algeria
called Tlemcen.
There are 3 Shiite mosques
in Sunni, Iraq.
And then there's a place
called Nan Madol.
There are a few sites out
in Melanesia, Polynesia,
Micronesia.
Continuing
on our journey eastward,
we cross the biblical
Red Sea and arrive
on the continent of Africa,
regarded as
the cradle of civilization.
Africa is home
to such holy places as
the Arc of the Covenant,
Mount Sinai,
the Mosque of Touba,
and the pyramids.
Thousands of people visit
the Egyptian pyramids
every year, marveling
at the construction
and in wonderment
of its original purpose.
When we talk about
pyramids,
there are only two types.
The pyramids that
are very, very old,
and then the pyramids
that aren’t so old.
And by not so old, to me
is, 3000 BC forward.
The World Around Us
will be right back after
these brief messages.
Please keep your dial
tuned here to
Supreme Master Television
to discover what
the Great Pyramid beholds.
There's no rule.
There's nothing
that you’ve got to do.
Don't hurt anything
and do what
your heart tells you to do.
Just enjoy it.
Just be there.
I'm trying to awaken
people to the idea that
the Earth is sacred.
Everything I can see
is a gift: the Earth
is giving to me.
So I try to ask people
to say, “Thank you
to this living being that
allows you to live here.”
Today on
The World Around Us,
Mr. Martin Gray,
anthropologist and
photographer, introduces
us to some of the world’s
most sacred sites.
You have some sites
in Egypt that are
really important like the
Sphinx and the Osirion.
There are a few
other things there that
are pre-Egyptian.
And some people
even say they were built
pre-10,500 BC.
If you look at the layout
of places on the ground
according to
their celestial alignments,
and then if you look at
their positioning on
sacred geographical grids:
Aha! You get something
very, very interesting
because a lot of times
the place of these
structures on the land
is in a relationship to
the positions of the stars
in the sky
from that latitude
at different times.
Mr. Gray illustrates that
these great works
of architecture had
lofty spiritual purposes.
In the Great Pyramid,
there is this one chamber,
the larger chamber, and
there is a tremendous
amount of geometry
in all of the lengths,
in the widths, in the
volume inside of this.
And so here you have
this pyramid built with
sacred geometry
on a particular line.
The geometry
the pyramid focuses
on something inside,
it’s at a place on the air;
there is all the
celestial power coming.
It all focuses it
into this room that has
sacred geometry in
the building of the room,
and there is a coffer,
a big stone
which never had a lid.
And people would lie in
there at certain times,
and because this sort
of focusing of a variety
of energies
at a certain place
at a certain time
in this chamber,
it allowed people to
have these extraordinary
awakenings, spiritual
awakening experiences,
or oracular experiences,
where they could see
somehow into the future.
There were
magnificent things that
happen to people
in the Great Pyramid,
in that box.
But that’s
the only pyramid like that
in the world.
All the others
are different.
Asia abounds with
sacred sites which
include Mt. Fuji in Japan,
Angkor Wat in Cambodia,
Mount Kailas in Tibet,
and Cheju Do Island
in South Korea.
In India, the home
of yogis and saints, the
people venerate all life.
Southern Indian
Hinduism or Hinduism
in general is
a really good one for this.
You have so many
different types of deities.
All these goddesses
and gods, and they
each did different things
at different places.
So you see a really
fine sort of indication
of the different qualities
of places in India.
In India, there are
these Kumbh Mela sites.
There are actually 4 –
Nashik, Ujjain, Haridwar
and Allahabad – which
used to be called Prayag.
Now it's Allahabad,
where the Kumbh Mela
happens.
Each one of those are
water sites along rivers.
Each one of them is
sacred on a particular
astrological date that
happens every so often.
Millions of people come
especially to
the Kumbh Mela
because they feel
at that particular time,
there are some qualities,
some energy, something
that gives people
an experience
of divinity forever.
It guarantees
enlightenment and
freedom from birth.
25 million people
went there
during the month period.
It's magnificent.
Our Earth,
a home to over 6 billion
human inhabitants,
is a living entity
that sustains the life of
countless flora and fauna.
We have a responsibility
to be caring stewards
of our nurturing planet.
We mine the earth,
then we manufacture
something, and then
there’s pollution
that comes out of it.
And then the things are
wasted, become obsolete,
and thrown away.
So you have this planet
being overwhelmed by
the amount of junk that
we human beings put out.
Then you have lots of
other problems,
spread of AIDS and
depletion of non-renewable
natural resources,
and they are all
completely interwoven
with one another and
the global super structure
is shaking.
We are losing
animal species.
Our planet is in such
dire straits, and I know
there is an awakening
of consciousness
on this planet.
This is extraordinary.
It’s not just the notion.
I’ve been all over
the place and
I see it everywhere.
Mr. Martin Gray speaks
of his philosophy on life
and his deep respect
for all God’s creations.
Don't hurt anything.
Get up in the morning
and put goodness and
beauty into the world.
Be really nice to people.
The whole world and
every being, everything,
is sacred.
Our sincere appreciation,
Mr. Martin Gray, for
graciously sharing your
brilliant photographic
talent and knowledge
to introduce some of
our planet’s holy places.
May the conviction that
“every being is sacred”
resonates deep within
human consciousness
as our world evolves
toward an era in which
the sanctity of all life
is honored.
Thank you,
global viewers, for
joining us for today’s
The World Around Us.
Please stay tuned to
Supreme Master
Television.
Words of Wisdom
is up next,
after Noteworthy News.
We’ll see you again.
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