Saturday, November 25, 2006
If I were ever to move to the country rather than a city, I can tell you right now one of the major reasons I would do it. Out away from major city lights, the night sky is bloody amazing. In Athens at night I see maybe 5-10 stars on any given night. When I'm down here at my dad's, the night sky is fabulously littered with stars. Tonight was a clear night and you could even see the milky way cutting across the sky. I looked at all of the clusters of stars and saw a shooting star. Most people in modern city society really can't understand why the ancients found the night sky divine, but it really is. Imagine if you could see it in an even more remote location without even the relatively distant neighbour's lights on. If there was a nationwide power outage on a night when people were out, I wonder how many people would awaken spiritually by the sudden appearance of divine manifestation in the form of the pure night sky.