My Mystical Journey
by Virato,
Publisher of Asheville Magazine
A few years ago if
you had said that I would be living in North Carolina, I would have said
you were nuts! Me, a Brooklyn-born-boy in the bible-belt, no way! That
was in October 1994. What transpired from then is indeed part of the mysterious
and magical dance taking place in this....America's most powerful vortex,
and the doorway to another dimension of Universal existence—Asheville,
North Carolina.
In a one week period, back in October of 1993, I received over 20 pieces
of correspondence from North Carolina. I think only one piece was from
Asheville itself. After calling all of the people and companies, I was
stunned to learn that they were all from the Asheville area--every last
one of those pieces of correspondence! This was way beyond coincidence.
I shared this with a number of people in our Philadelphia office. Then
a mysterious man came into my life as if he were an angel. I even had
a mystical experience with this magical fellow I met in Philadelphia only
a week before I was to leave that city. He was from Magee Valley, near
Asheville! The one day in that time period I received a call from a friend
asking if I knew anything about Asheville, North Carolina. She said a
couple of friends were driving there in two days. I was amazed and called
her friends telling them of my experience and asked if I could come with
them to Asheville. They said sure.
It happened heading southwest on Interstate 40. I "felt it"
about 20 miles northeast of Asheville, as I approached Black Mountain,
and I felt it again around Waynesville, and Magee Valley, about 40 miles
to the southwest...it's a feeling of lightness and love that seems to
permeate the physical body. Mystics say these are the vortex entrance
portals...some say it is the cradle high valley between the mountain ridges...still
others speak of extraterrestrials, and a heritage to Atlantis, to have
landed here after their demise...stories abound.
Like wanderers to a Promised Land, spiritually-minded people are being
drawn inexplicably to the breeze-swept city of Asheville. For many, it
invokes a sense of coming home. There is a speeding up, time seems to
move faster here...and I can feel it." "I don't know why I'm
here." "I felt magically/mystically drawn to this area."
These are some comments people in a 50 mile radius of Asheville, North
Carolina can be heard making. It happened to me the first time I drove
here from Philadelphia in 1994.
Blessings & Love,
Virato