The Soul of a Place...
Have you ever felt the difference between a house with people living in it and one without? Have you ever walked into an abandoned building and felt like it's asleep or dead? Have you ever moved and noticed there comes a point where the old house seems to have lost its soul, or the new house starts to feel more welcoming? The presence of humans alters the space they are in.
Time spent in a locale builds a presence for the place. The more time you spend somewhere, the more you presense builds an energy there. This is the soul of a place. With lack of stimulation from the presence of people, this soul goes to sleep until it is awakened by the return of people.
The presence or soul is the result, and the culmination of, multiple factors.
First of all, there is the physical presence. A body in an area disrupts air flow and generates heat. This heat causes air flow. As such, a person or warm-blooded animal in a space creates a change in the environment.
Second, each object exerts gravitational force on the objects around it. A person in a space creates a gravitational force on the objects within that space.
Third, every person has an electromagnetic field. Blood in iron rich, so the flow of blood creates an electromagnetic field, just like spinning a metal coil of wire. We live in a world full of metal that can be magnetized. Our presence induces a small amount of electricity to this metal.
Fourth, there is a psychic impression on the world around us. Our emotions become embedded in the space, like an image that is burnt into a television or monitor. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the impression. This results in some of the experiences people have with ghost-like manifestations.
Fifth, there is a spiritual impression. Humans are partly spiritual beings. We are connected to the higher spiritual worlds in addition to the physical, so we in effect draw some of the spiritual into the physical and some of the physical into the spiritual. Our presence creates a change in the world around us, making the spiritual more physical and the physical more spiritual. We essentially act as a bridge joining the two worlds in the space we occupy. The more we spend time in one place, and the more people spend time there, the tighter the two are tied together. In essence, we thin the line between the physical and the spiritual.
These five factors create a change in an area. They create a soul, a living presence, in that space. This is how sacred space is created, and why we feel most comfortable in an area we are familiar with. The space is familiar with us as well.
~Muninn's Kiss