TARGET 120725

THE BILTMORE MANSION

^{The Biltmore Mansion and estate}

NOTE TO VIEWERS: This target was selected by Teresa Frisch as one of her bi-weekly webinar practice targets. You can see the video of the webinar on YouTube by clicking here.

As for the information you should have gotten for this target, the target site is vast and complex. When dealing with such targets, the subconscious mind will tend to zero in on something of interest and ignore the rest of the site. So, do not be quick to discount anything just because it is not covered in this feedback. There is a lot of information in books, on the internet, etc. And, if you ever have plans to be in that area, the house is open for visitors to wander through and look at everything. So, take your session transcript with you and go for an "on-site" feedback visit. It is a real experience that everyone should do as often as possible - or at least once.

When it comes to pure opulence, few places in the U.S. can compare to the Biltmore Mansion. The luxurious family home of George and Edith Vanderbilt is a marvel of elegance and charm, as magnificent today as it was more than a century ago.

The dining room is a banquet hall with a 70 foot (21.3 meter) high ceiling. The art pieces on the walls are by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and John Singer Sargent and tapestries from the 1500's. There is a Library with 10,000 volumes and the basement has a kitchen, a gym, a bowling alley and a swimming pool. The house has 65 fireplaces. Almost all of the objects throughout the house are from George and Edith Vanderbilt’s collection. They are originals and priceless.

^{The view from the back porch}

If you visit the Biltmore, you can stand on the back porch and look at the 8000 acre back yard, where hot air balloons rides, carnivals, lavish cook-outs, weddings and other ceremonies and festivals were held for the amusement of the Vanderbilts' guests. You can also roam through the house unattended, or for an extra fee, you can have a tour guide lead you and tell you about the mansion's history, the items, and the various events and activities of each part of the place.

Or, you can just roam the grounds and gardens, as George and Edith did, over a century ago.

Basic-level viewers should have gotten perceptions of ornateness, wealth, high altitude (notice the clouds in the valley behind the estate in the top picture) and sketches of buildings and hills, and anything that was zeroed in on.

Intermediate-level viewers were also tasked to move in time to the most active time of the location. The Vanderbilts were constant hosts to the most important people of a century ago, and threw astoundingly lavish parties.

Advanced-level viewers should have made timelines to show such things as activities throughout the history of the site. It is still privately owned by Vanderbilt heirs, but the main activity now is visits by tourists. Advanced-level viewers could also have made hand-drawn maps of the estate and/or floor plans of the mansion, showing the location, usage, values, sizes, shapes, etc. of each item on their maps.

While this target was admittedly overly complex, it offers a great learning opportunity to everyone, as do all of the targets selected by Teresa for her webinars.

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If you got impressions for which this feedback is insufficient, more information,
pictures and videos can be found at the following web sites:

The main Biltmore web site
Info id you'd like to visit
Wikipedia

Many thanks to Teresa Frisch and Ray McClure,
who both submitted the Biltmore as a target.