Martin Gray is a seasoned explorer, photographer and travel writer renowned for his profound insights into pilgrimage to sacred sites around the world. He created the World Pilgrimage Guide website in 1996, which has received more than 100 million visitors and shares lists of places, writings and photos of sacred sites in over 160 countries around the planet. In 2004 National Geographic published “The Geography of Religion” of his photos. In 2007 Sterling published Sacred Earth, a collection of 200 of photographs. 
Sacred Sites / World Pilgrimage Guide
Shortcut to Nirvana by Maurizio Benazzo and Nick Day
Topics:

0:00 –  Introduction
2:52 – Background and interest in sacred sites
7:26 – Energetic experiences
15:30 – Pilgrimages
17:18 – Power places
24:42 – Map of sacred sites
29:54 – Tips for Western travelers at sacred sites
35:28 – Cumulative energy of sacred sites
37:24 – Sound at sacred sites
41:55 – Schewedegon pagoda soundscape
51:08 – Shortcut to nirvana
54:40 – Martin’s most personal sacred sacred sites