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Place matters. Sacred Sites in North Star Country tells how the land influenced the dramatic social changes that took place in greater New York State that shaped the world. It provides a listing of sacred sites to experience that consciousness. North Star Country was the birthplace of the Women's Movement and American Democracy, as well as the home to America's Second Great Awakening. It has been called the Burned-over District for its spiritual wildfires and America's Psychic Highway. It is a place where prophets walked, religions were born and great souls lived - Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Fredrick Douglas, William Seward, Gerrit Smith ... "One of the Holiest places in the world," is how the Sikh mystic and guru Baba Virsa Singh described Gobind Sadan his ashram in North Star Country.