Amy Barnes: #3 Landscape of the Sacred

After reading chapters in Lane's book I really began to understand a little more about sacred place and sacred experience. Sacredness of a place is hard to define and verbally explain for that matter. Say you have a special experience at a place that you consider to be sacred, going back to that same place to get that feeling is nearly impossible. Lane describes this aspect perfectly in the chapter titled, The Ephemeral Character of Place. The concept that caught my attention the most was our power of memory and our attachment to place. A place can have a big impact on your imagination. I'm sure everyone could think back when they were younger and describe a place they had been to that had a great impact on them. I bet they could describe that particular place all the way down to the littlest detail because it's a vivid memory that never goes away.