The Vision & The Visionary

Large corporations have visions; individuals; dreams, which evolve into an all-consuming passion, which knows no rest in the quest to hone that dream.

Corporate projects are, well, projects. Generally impersonal and driven by profit considerations. Mystic Lands is a personal undertaking, motivated by the desire to create for body and for mind a restorative green oasis at the epicenter of the jewel of Western North Carolina – vast National Forests and Parks, rivers an lakes, sheltered from a rapidly sprawling urban world, fraught with the relentless stress of 21st century living.

The moving force behind Mystic Lands, Ami Shinitzky, is a recipient of numerous awards for both excellence and innovation, in business and education. A former philosophy professor, turned equestrian magazines publisher, (EQUUS magazine is one of his creations), a sportsman, a writer, and multi-cultural has built his own home at Mystic Forest – a testimony to the lure of the place, and to his commitment to the enterprise. Mystic Lands is a world for those who seek in the bosom of the greenest of nature a respite form the grinding urban experience; a place for kindred spirits offered with the same uncompromising demands that Shinitzky is seeking for his own home in the forest.