Re: Apologising for one's ancestors

Jill wrote:

I have long realised that we have only a limited understanding of our surroundings at all levels and, while in all fields I have been involved in, I prefer good evidence I also realise there is a great deal we have not yet worked out how to "measure"
So maybe you just need some patience before you condemn - the evidence may be there but us fallible humans have simply not worked out how to recognise it

The energy of the lands like the Highlands is much more fundamental than what the humans bring to it
It may be something you do not register - that is fine - however don't dscount it
I understand what you say about places with strong human influences - where your thoughts of what happened somewhere brings a further dimension to a place.
What I was describing was not about humans but a deeper energy, if its not your thing - thats fine by me. Maybe its something that comes from working on and with the land for so many years. Its certainly a feeling that is more likely to be recognised by those who do than those whose connection is more tenuous.

Although I have no belief in ley lines, (but am content that others have), I would heartily agree that we should not believe that 'modern man' has a complete knowledge of all that goes to make up the physical and spiritual world. On the same 'wave length' as my feelings about Glencoe, I remember as a fifteen year old driving down the coast of Kenya to a place named Shimoni, close to the border with Tanganyika. We made a 'comfort stop' near the ruins of an old town, the walls of the buildings having been constructed with coral blocks. It was in a state of total disrepair, with palm trees growing within the old buildings.

I knew nothing of the place, but was aware of an oppressive feeling bearing down on one. I later discovered that it had been a holding location for slaves, where they awaited the change of the monsoon so that they could be transported by dhow across the Indian Ocean. It had been finally abandoned at the start of the C20th. So yes, I believe that locations can emit an 'atmosphere' based on past happenings. .

Transport out there in those days was somewhat different to that which we are used to today in the UK. On the last day we had at Shimoni it did not rain just stair rods, but solid sheets of water. I sailed up to Mombasa the next day, but my mate was to come up in the car. He arrived back at school two and a half weeks late, the roads having been impassible for that length of time.

If nothing else, this ramble should remind people that the slave trade was not confined to the triangle between Bristol, West Africa and the West Indies.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon

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