Mexico City, Mexico
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain, playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of the subconscious from which it rises.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychologist
The Pyramid of the Sun, one of the three largest pyramids in the world, towers 215 feet over the Mexican landscape. A sacred stone monument, according to some theories, it is dedicated to the Great Goddess, one of two main Teotihuacán deities. The cave beneath the pyramid may have been associated with the human emergence (from the “womb”) and the clover leaf–shaped chambers off the cave may have been the sacred site of water and fire rituals.
If you want to visit an ancient site to feel its energy, this is it. The nearest airport is in Mexico City. Take a bus from Mexico City’s north bus terminal; Autobuses Teotihuacán travel between the site and the town every thirty to sixty minutes, or purchase a coach tour from various tour businesses or hotels in Mexico City.
Meditate on top of the pyramid. Imagine warm energy running from your tailbone to the top of your head on the right side of your spine and cool energy returning from the top of your head to your tailbone on the left side. Do several cycles.
A second pyramid, the Pyramid of the Moon, is connected to the Pyramid of the Sun by the roughly mile-long Avenue of the Dead. The most visited archaeological sites in Mexico, both were once plastered and painted red and covered in magnificent murals; today only the natural color of the stone remains.