I went back to my house and pulled up the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms site for the United States.

Three months later and I was packing up a suitcase with a ten days’ worth of clothes. Within those three months I had overcome a stripping case of pneumonia, the death of two of my friends, and the long list of struggles that came with my dad losing his job after 20 years. I was in much need of spiritual rejuvenation.

Driving to Chardon, Ohio was more than a cosmic coincidence. My grandmother lived in a town over and for the first time since her passing in 2011, I drove by the exit to Chesterland. Continuing on to Light Footsteps Farm, I passed the same Marc’s in Chardon she3.2.7. Other temples

Three different examples of temples will be given here as a final illustration of a (semi) religious interest in the four-fold. They have a devotion to the basic elements of fire and earth in common.

The first historical specimen consists of the so-called fire temples of Iran and adjacent countries (fig. 162). They are part of the old religion devoted to Zarathustra. The prophet Zarathustra (or Zoroaster) founded the major religion of the Persian Empire around the sixth century BC. Fire (light) was seen as a symbol of Ahura Mazda (Ohrmad), the Supreme Being. The creator of heaven was permanently fighting with Ahriman, the destructive spirit of darkness. Many dual concepts – like Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, and the Last Judgement –