The Balance of Unseen Space

One Sunday morning at the local markets, I was told the most fascinating story that was almost too amusing to be taken seriously. A friend described a curious old traveller she met overseas in the 1970’s that had purchased vast amounts of a relatively unknown crystal (at the time) because he loved the unusual colour. The more he travelled, the more difficult it became to carry his heavy bag of rocks. Believing that he would figure out what to do with them at some point in his journey, he refused to send them home to Europe. As the months passed, he decided to purchase a boat to lighten the burden on his back, and sailed around the coast of the America’s.

Visiting difficult to access inlets and islands, his collection of this particular crystal increased. He stored them in the hull of the boat, increasing his excess weight, and causing the boat to sink a little deeper into the ocean each day. Growing very concerned as he neared Canada, he threw the boat’s anchor overboard and sheltered within a semi-protected edge near a popular fishing inlet. The longer he anchored in this particular spot in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, the more difficult it became to leave. If he ever journeyed to the mainland, he only visited for a few days at a time, before returning once again to this particular location.

After almost two years had passed, he had become a local legend in the nearby ports, and began welcoming visitors aboard his sailboat to break up the time. Hearing about this foreign man retiring in the middle of the ocean on a boat full of crystals, a visitor from the mainland caught a lift on a local fishing boat to visit the traveller. Upon arrival, the guest bluntly enquired whether the foreigner understood what he was doing. Unable to answer, the visitor announced that his curious act was actually balancing the energies within an important energy line in the middle of the ocean floor. Unbeknown to him, the crystals were being used as an unseen force to mend an event that had occurred there millions of years ago. Finally able to comprehend his strange affliction, the foreigner could not believe his luck. With the option of returning the crystals to the ocean floor, the foreigner decided to remain anchored in the location until he felt necessary to move on. Many years later he eventually did, splitting up his collection by selling the crystals all over the world. To this day, his strange affliction ensured a rare crystal became available for purchase; as small, less significant or quality supplies have been found since. The balance of unseen space in mainstream culture - interpreted as the flow of living energy, is best understood through the pseudoscience of Feng Shui. This Chinese belief suggests that nature as land, and built space as architecture or interior arrangements, comprises a flow of energy (chi) containing both feminine (yin) and masculine (yang) forces. The spatial design and orientation of an environment must contain a balance of favourable energy flow to maintain good health and good fortune for the occupants or visitors. Feng Shui suggests that physical interventions of internal environments such as the use of mirrors, crystals, fountains, running water, auspicious symbols, and plants, alongside the placement of furniture and decoration with area specific colour; can assist with re-directing energy flow to prevent energy stagnation in a neglected area. Whether one believes in this practice or not, from a practical point of view, good energy flow simply makes life easier. Externally, energy flow is understood as ley lines. Ley lines are a conceptual line on an ordinate survey map, using a straight line (also known as a straight track,) to connect a certain number of specific points. The term was popularised by amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins in the 1920’s from his study of sites across the British countryside, and has received continual criticism since the 1980’s, as chance alignments intersect a number of points due to the density of sacred sites. The definition of these geographically interesting ‘points’ is flexible, including naturally formed areas such as a pond, lake, or forest, as well as man-made holy structures, such as a church or an ancient sacred site (the latter being more widely accepted.) Believers claim that these straight lines have magical and spiritual properties, carrying powerful healing energies as electromagnetic energy, through sacred sites along the same line. Energy moving in a straight line is incomprehensible to many cultures, as curves reflect the impulsive and instinctively occurring disorder of nature. In the aboriginal culture, Indigenous Australians are able to navigate terrain through the use of organically flowing song lines. The paths of song lines describe the location of landmarks, waterholes, mountains, meeting sites, and other significant locations in the natural environment. Recorded through songs, stories, dance, and paintings, song lines are also said to mark the route of creator beings in the dreamtime, containing wisdom at sacred sites along the journey. Similarly, earth energy lines are exceptionally significant and tangible over ley lines. As its forces can be sensed by people moving about the land, earth energy directly interacts with, and effects, the energy system of the human body. Its influential presence suggests that we evolve in tandem co-creation with the land, manifesting the external reality that we experience as a mirror from within our bodies. Earth energy weaves across the landscape like organically formed rivers, however, the true design best resembles the network of blood supply within the human body. The concept suggests main arteries in the human body represent significant points of earth energy flow, while tiny capillaries represent the finer branches of smaller pulsating movements, in a heavily layered, sporadically intersecting grid.

Some individuals, similar to the crystal collector positioned in the middle of the ocean, are highly sensitive to invisible energies. This type of individual, also known as a clairsentient person, feel subtle energy changes as they move about their day, experiencing sensations deep in their body as a flinch, similar to an electric shock. Facing these connections can be a tiring process for the individual, however their perceptive intuition is integral to connecting and rebalancing these unseen forces that fill the void of unseen space. Who knew that being overly sensitive to unseen space was such an impressive job to have…