PLACES -Glossary

A Place Is a Particular Point In Space 

And space may be travelled by unearthly means, with spiritual wings, nightly dreams.  

The places here are likely highlighted somewhere in these gossamer threads. 

BRUGES

An ancient land known to the Romans.  But first this ancient coastal region of Gaul was home to the Celts and the tribes of the Menapii and the Morini.  Today in the 21st century this region is Western Europe and the little medieval town of Bruges is currently in Belgium.   read more

CERN- the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire

European Council for Nuclear Research  is located in Geneva Switzerland.  The research facility houses the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, which is nothing less than the most powerful particle accelerator on Planet Earth.  CERN belongs to Europe and is the largest physics laboratory globally.

In simpler terms the LHC is the world's most powerful microscope, or an underground giant ring of steel, copper, aluminum, nickel and titanium 300 feet underground with a layout of very large magnets.

"In 1994 the First International Conference on the World Wide Web was held at CERN and was hailed as the Woodstock of the Web"   Key legislation was passed in 1991 that made the ARPANET a high speed data transmission network, open to the general public Info Source - Beyond the God Particle

 

LEMBERT DOME - Yosemite National Park  California

Lembert Dome isa part of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and is located inside Yosemite National Park.  It is a granite dome rock formation. It was named for John Baptist Lembert who took up a homestead in a section of Tuolumne.

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the NADIR

the point opposite of the zenith, the lowest point ... In some schools of thought rounding the nadir is akin to the passing of great trials or hardships successfully.  And after you have rounded it you begin the upward journey of climbing, ascending rather than falling.   more info

Nadir in astrology is not the same as the IC or Imum Coeli since it is not necessarily located on the ecliptic 

NIBELHEIM 

The dwarfs, or Nibelungs, were entirely different. They were small and misshapen, but very shrewd, and so skilful were their ringers that they were able to do the most difficult work in the finest metals. They lived in an underground country called Nibelheim (Home of the Dwarfs), where they collected hoards of gold and gems, and strange treasures of all kinds ; and Alberich was one of them. from The story of the Rhinegold (Der ring des Nibelungen) told for young people -published 1897

The old consciousness that held sway in Nebelheim cannot be better described than in the words:

My sleep is a dreaming
My dream is a musing
My musing is ruled by wisdom.

The old consciousness was a dreaming consciousness, but in this dream human beings knew of the whole surrounding world.  The old consciousness The dream encompassed the depth of nature and spun its wisdom from person to person, whose musing and actions all stemmed from this dreaming consciousness.  - Rudolf Steiner Supersensible Knowledge: Lecture XII: Richard Wagner and Mysticism

WALHALLA [Valhalla]

"...that the ancient world arises before his mind's eye, the world that has produced Walhalla, the world of Wotan, and of the ancient gods