Sediment Energy is much more than what we scientifically describe today. Intention and Emotion are energy just as much as electricity and magnetism. We, humans, are manipulators of energy, whether we know it or not, whether we believe it or not. Our emotions flow out to affect other people and we take in the emotional energy of others. We interact energetically in the same way that atoms interact. We connect, disconnect, trade properties as if emotions were electrons and so forth. In a sense, we leave a residue, on each other and everything we come in contact with, literally or figuratively. This residue could be called 'sediment' and it is also correct to say that, like ordinary sediment, some emotional sediment is heavy while some is very light. The energy diffuses and filters by the same dynamics which govern how heavy and light physical sediment is distributed. This is not simply a metaphor. The Earth actually receives emotional deposits from us, and she processes them in the same way that she processes physical sediment. When we expend emotional energy, it becomes active within the 'system'. Some energy is taken on by others for a while and some is deposited in the place where the energy was expended. Some may deposit in the soil. The wind may carry some away. And some may be picked up by water. Soil holds onto emotional energy longer and more securely because it's generally very stable. However, being solid, ie, less permeable, it is also more resistant to taking on anything in the first place. So, it is usually very strong emotion or extended periods of emotion, perhaps in quantity, which finds its way into the soil. The type of soil is pertinent as well, since rock or clay would naturally be more resistant than soft dirt or sand. This dynamic is how places on the Earth become 'charged' with energy, whether positive or negative. Battlefields and cemeteries are obvious places where emotional energy is stored. Grand and beautiful landscapes which inspire awe are also storage locations. Any time we experience an emotional response in a location, at least part of the energy is deposited there. We sometimes apply energy to places by naming them and thus focusing an emotional significance there. Again, battlefields are a good example. We preserve and sometimes add to the energy that was left there originally, simply by memorializing an event and its location. It's not necessarily the name itself, but the emotion attached to the place. Mount Shasta is a widely recognized point of positive power, even though it's potentially hazardous, being volcanic. But just looking at that mountain inspires awe and a sense of grandeur, a respectful recognition of something larger than ourselves, and in this case an astoundingly beautiful construct of nature. Each time someone calls Mount Shasta by name, it may invoke the image and an echo of that energy and emotional response. In that moment of focus, calling to mind the image and the place, more positive energy is applied to it. The same goes for an application of fearful energy when someone speaks of the San Andreas Fault in that way. The same goes for sad energy when someone calls to mind the grave of a deceased loved one (versus a fond memory of the person when they were living). In contrast to soil deposits, air can't carry much, but what it does carry may go far before it filters out.The effects are light because the emotional energy is greatly diffused, or quickly dissipated. Air may take on energy easily but scatters it broadly as well, so it would be unlikely to find air space which contains a significant or recognizable quantity. There are enclosed spaces which may have a certain feel to them, a certain 'atmosphere' or ambience, although what's in the air is likely strengthened by whatever is contained within the more solid parts of the location. Water is the most active carrier of emotion. It's highly conductive, not only in taking on energy very easily, but in transporting it. Water's circulation, both streaming and as precipitation, makes it available to pick up a lot of energy and move it amazing distances. There is diffusion in this process as well, but the dynamics of sedimentation are particularly applicable to water. Fast moving water can carry quite a bit, then if that stream slows down or takes a turn, much of what it carries is dropped in that place. Rain washes the air and the land to some extent. Snow is even more cleansing as it filters the air on its way down then carries off more residue by melting into streams and rivers. However, the sediment does not disintegrate, it is merely moved. If it's diffused sufficiently, then there isn't much evidence of it any more. Yet there are some places which manage to store or catch a lot of the same sort of sediment, and these places can become saturated in them. An example of soil storage: The Middle East is widely recognized as having a rather high rate of conflict. Geologically, it's mostly sand and rock with very little in the way of precipitation or rivers to carry away the emotional energy. So, there has been a build up over the millenia there and it's self-perpetuating. As time goes on, the irritation, angst and suffering of past conflicts accumulate in the terrain and support more conflict which deposits more fuel for more conflict, and so on. There simply is very little in the way of a purging mechanism to allow the negative and forceful energy to silt away in any quantity. In the USA, which is rife with precipitation and waterways, circulation is quite efficient. However, because most of the rivers feed into the main one, the Mississippi River, it ultimately carries the bulk of whatever residue is released here. Now with all the wiggles and turns in the great length of the river, there is much silting along the way. But, there is one unique loop in the Mississippi which is an extremely tight turn, almost letting the River connect to itself. This place allows for a heavy silting of energy. This place is at New Madrid, Missouri, which is the center of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This is not coincidence. (More to come on that in a New Madrid Seismic Zone article.) Whatever sediment carries past that unique loop is distributed more lightly all the way to the Gulf, where the last of it may get carried away into the Caribbean and then the Atlantic and then diffused until it is indistinguishable in the whole ocean, along varied shorelines, or on the sea floor. Of course, there's an evaporation factor too, but as noted, the atmosphere carries less concentrations and so it's a small factor. This is a glance at my understanding of how we impact the Earth on more than a strictly physical level. Our emotional forays are recorded in her soil, atmosphere, and water. Her natural systems hold and/or distribute our sediment (ie, sentiment) and so places are charged with that residue. Whomever lives in these places, or focuses there, especially by name, is affected by the geophysiology or they further affect it. This is not a 'good' or 'bad' thing. It is a natural process. By being aware of our impact in this way, we can help ourselves and our Earth Mother. We can be more careful about what we give and take. We can be aware of what we think we're leaving behind, because ultimately, it may come back to us, or we could step into it again. |
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