Blowing Open the Dusty Windows of Perception
Certain places -- like where springwater falls over a slickrock ledge, sculpting
the land of canyons, or where steam bubbles from dark cauldrons in Yellowstone
while bison hunker nearby --have a power to radically alter my state of
consciousness, such that suddenly my bodymind re-members the most expansive
thoughts, ecstatic feelings, deepest mysteries, or the biggest cosmic questions
of my life. It's almost as if I get something like a 'contact high' from the
land.