Sarah Robertson
Lane has really opened my eyes to sacred places and what
makes a sacred place sacred. In the first chapter of his book he talks of the 4
axioms. These 4 axioms help me to understand what makes a sacred place sacred.
Lane uses the example of a clearing in the woods to help the reader to
understand his axioms. With the way he describes these axioms I am able to
relate with my own personal experiences. After reading this first chapter of
Lanes book I have a better understanding of sacred places and a better
understanding of my own personal sacred places. I understand how a sacred place
chooses you, how it can be an ordinary place ritually make extraordinary and
how what is sacred to one person is not always sacred to another. One thing
that I still have trouble understanding is how a sacred place can be
centripetal and centrifugal, how it is local and universal. I have trouble
understanding how a sacred place is universal, locally it makes sense to me but
how can this place be universal?
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