Outside Reading 1: Sacred Place as Time

Nathan Bloom: 8 December 2009
http://sacredspace.ie/

This may appear to be a cop out for a blog entry by just using a website I found using google.com, however I went there looking for ideas and inspiration and instead was opened to a whole new idea. This website suggests that not only can we have sacred places, but we may also have sacred space in time. To my knowledge this was not discussed in the course and wish now that we could have delved into this. The website I found doesn't have much to it yet it opens the door. This course explained and discussed sacred places around the world and it was said that the places can be ordinary, made extraordinary by rituals preformed. Is it also true then that the place is not sacred but the time is? For example Muslims pray 5 times a day and it does not matter where they are so long as they pray at those 5 predetermined times. Does this make the time of day sacred or at that time of day does the place that they are become sacred? This is food for thought that I will look into further, I guess it is just something very interesting to think about.