Mount Tai Shan, Five Peaks, one of the Nine Sacred Mountains of China continue… July 27, 2008
Posted by dodo in : Air Tickets, Airlines, Cars, Destination, England, Greece, Hotels, Malaysia, Sightseeing, Sweden, Trails, Trip, Venezuela, Wales , trackbackShortly after midnight, a monk with a lantern awoke them with the cry: ‘The Bodhisattva has appeared!’ They threw on their clothes, their teeth chattering with the cold, the excitement, or both, and they scrambled across the temple courtyard and mounted to the tower. As they entered they found themselves facing one of the windows looking out on the vastness of the space beyond. Everyone gasped in surprise — none of them was prepared for what they saw. Numerous orange spheres of light where floating ‘majestically’ through the darkness of the mountain night beyond the window.They seemed to be no more than one or two hundred yards (90-180m) away, but because their exact distance could not be judged, their size could not be properly determined. They appeared like the fluffy woollen balls that babies play with seen close up. They seemed to be moving at the stately pace of a large, well-fed fish aimlessly cleaving its way through the water. . . . Where they came from, what they were, and where they went after fading from sight in the West, nobody could tell. Fluffy balls of orange-coloured fire, moving through space, unhurried and majestic — truly a fitting manifestation of divinity!’
The present writer checked with Blofeld that the tower associated with the temple had been specifically built for observing the Bodhisattva Lights. He affirmed that that was the case. We can thus see its positioning as being geomantic: its function was related to the sacred geography of the place.
Blofeld did not think that the nature of the lights could be prosaic. How could it be marsh gas, for instance ‘right out in space, a thousand or more feet above the nearest horizontal surface and some hundreds of feet from the vertical surface of a cold, rocky mountain innocent of water?’ But was it a trick perpetrated by the monks? ‘Yes, if you first suppose two or three hundred men all clothed in black and able to swim slowly through space.’ Some form of glowing nocturnal insect, like a firefly? `Even supposing they were really much closer than they seemed, fireflies almost the size of small footballs?’ Blofeld asked rhetorically: `What remains? Silence, perhaps, is best.’
He was not to know, as we here on our pilgrimage of the world’s secret heritage now do, that locations that attract such typical light phenomena are not that uncommon. We have already noted the lightforms of Hessdalen and various sacred sites associated with rumours of mystery lights, and we have discussed the matter of ‘earth lights‘. Here it is enough to point out that the peaks of mountains and hills are particularly prone to such phenomena, which are sometimes referred to as `mountain peak discharge’ or MPD. That there is some tectonic association is indicated by such phenomena as the ‘Andes Light’, a glow fairly common to the South American mountain range, situated as it is on a profoundly seismically disturbed part of the Earth’s crust. It has been noted particularly strongly after earthquakes. And, of course, mountain ranges can be expected to abound with faulting and thus manifest tectonic pressure.
Certain peaks that have been seen to produce lights (glows and beams rather than discrete spheroids in some cases) have become holy, like Wu T’ai. Mount Athos in Greece, another World Heritage site, has produced lightforms that are interpreted there as manifestations of the Blessed Virgin Mary rather than of a Bodhisattva. Cader Idris in Wales, which has many legendary Celtic associations, is said to produce lights at certain times of the Celtic year, and this author has, in fact, seen a ball of light erupt from the mountainside there. In England, Pendle Hill, the Lancashire peak that was the focus of the famous Pendle Witches and where George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, had his great vision in 1652, is known to have produced lights for centuries at least. The sacred mount of Glastonbury Tor, also in England, has had light phenomena seen around it sporadically — again one manifestation was witnessed by the present writer in 1967, when three balls of orange light partially encircled the summit.
The hill of Changkat Asah, near Tanjong Malim in Malaysia, attracts lightforms very much like those described by Blofeld, and they are said in local legend to be the spectral heads of women who died in childbirth. Mount Omberg in Sweden had a monastery on it at one time, and quite recently lights, both as globes and as beams, have been witnessed on its bare, rocky peak. Mount Shasta in California, sacred to the Wintu Indians, has produced lights and other prodigies over the years. Sorte Mountain in Venezuela is sacred, especially to members of the Maria Lionza religion, ‘a syncretism of many traditions, including old Jaguar cults of Amerinidian origin, Haitian voodoo, Yoruba and other African traditions and Christianity‘. The focus for shamanic healing pilgrimages, the mountain is thought to be specially favourable to the rites if the ’spirits’ appear on it, ‘which are evidenced by strange lights seen near the peak toward sunset’.6 John Blofeld was ‘not much interested’ in ’scientific’ explanations of the Bodhisattva Lights. He need not have worried: the full understanding of these lights lies well beyond the current status of scientific knowledge. The science that finally encompasses them will be of another order to that prevailing today.
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