Nathan Bloom: December 8, 2009
Landscapes of the Sacred
The four axioms discussed by Lane on page 19 give a better understanding to Sacred Place. The axioms are rules to understand and to find sacred places. First sacred places choose themselves. you cannot go to a mountain and declare it sacred; it must declare this to you. It doesn't have to be a place that is postcard worthy so to speak, it can be any place but what you do there is what makes it Sacred. The third axiom that Lane presents is more confusing to me. From the reading it seems that a place is sacred depending on your state of mind, meaning that you may walk through place when it is not sacred but at another time when you are in a different sate of mind that same place will present itself as sacred. Finally, the fourth axiom explains that sacred places pull you in but at the same time pull you outwards and make you aware of the large scale of God in the world.
Axioms are a keystone for this course and should be understood from the beginning, but ironically enough they are confusing but the more in depth you get into the course, the clearer and clearer they become. Now although I should have written these blogs ages ago I feel that now as the course draws to an end, it is at this time that I find myself most qualified to reflect on the topics discussed as I can fully tie them all together with better understanding.
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