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Travel adventures in fascinating places

Holy well of St Anne

Holy Wells and Healing Water

To the modern, rational mind, the idea of miraculous cures from holy wells sounds, at best, illogical. But with so many people claiming to have been healed by water, it’s narrow-minded to ignore the evidence. Henry Dorst is a Feng Shui practitioner who uses water energized at an energy vortex to … [Read More...]

Robert Scheer in Aramu Muru Portal

Earth’s Three Most Powerful Places

When people find out I’m a travel writer who focuses on pilgrimages to places of power, they frequently ask me, “What are the most powerful places on Earth?” Because there are more than 1,000 major power centers around the planet, it’s hard to find anyone truly qualified to answer that question, but … [Read More...]

Aramu Muru Portal

Aramu Muru’s Portal: Inter-Dimensional Doorway at Lake Titicaca

Aramu Muru Portal Aramu Muru’s Portal was not on the itinerary of our “Sacred Mysteries of Peru” tour, so visiting it … [Read More...]

Kilclooney dolmen

Stone Circle Magic in Ireland

Stone circles are enchanted places. Across the British Isles are numerous groups of ancient standing stones associated … [Read More...]

Stein Valley owl rock painting

Vision Quest Rock Paintings of the Stein

An ancient power spot in a wilderness near Vancouver, BC is easier to find now that the area has become a provincial … [Read More...]

horse and wagon barkerville

Barkerville Celebrates its Chinese Heritage

The glow from hundreds of candle-lit paper lanterns provided the only light as we paraded up the dirt street into … [Read More...]

Monsopiad Cultural Center Dungo

Spirits Of Slain Enemies Protect Borneo Headhunter Village

KOTA KINABALU, MALAYSIA - Nine generations after a Kadazan warrior named Monsopiad became a headhunter, the spirits of … [Read More...]

Belize howler monkey

Green Luxury in a Belize Rainforest

Was an enormous lion howling outside my thatched cottage? It sounded more like a T-Rex. I might have been worried if I … [Read More...]

Meekakshi temple Medurai

Blessed by a Sacred Elephant

The Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple in Madurai is one of the largest in South India I had to stretch my neck to look up … [Read More...]

Hotel Europe Vancouver

Walking With Ghosts In Vancouver’s Haunted Gastown

I'd walked past the place hundreds of times without knowing that so many people had been killed there. A block south of … [Read More...]

Exploring Brisbane Australia

My trip to Queensland began with a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane. The trip took nearly twelve hours, and I … [Read More...]

Kenya witch doctor

Kenya: The Witch Doctor Is In

The witch doctor sat with human skulls at his feet. My guide said they were the bones of his father and grandfather who … [Read More...]

Fairy in painting

Why I Believe in Fairies

Maybe it’s Shakespeare’s fault, or perhaps the brothers Grimm are to blame, but fairies – like witches – have an image … [Read More...]

Machu Picchu

Shamanic Experience at Machu Picchu

Night was falling as we got into the bus to go up to Machu Picchu. Our group of ten, usually talkative and laughing, … [Read More...]

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