Daniel Mejia phenomenolgical approach

One of the most important things I leaned through out the semester is that in order to experience a place to its potential, you have to do your part and participate as well. This is Lane's phenomenological approach of understanding sacred place. It is almost as is the place is speaking through us. To be fully present in any place "is to recognize the reciprocity involved in touching and being touched." The more you interact with a place the more its going to interact back. I learned this on our walk on the Noland Trail. And it totally makes sense, the more you connect with the place and interact with it the more you feel a sense of the place touching you right back.