Sunday, December 6, 2009

Terango: Tred upon without being entered

Lane brings up as one of his axioms for understanding sacred place that, "sacred place can be tred upon without being entered." This concept offers a great deal of insight into understanding sacred place free from the constrictions of labels. It expresses sacred place as somewhere that is experienced existentially not ontologically. Therefore the sacred experience is relative to the inescapable subjectivity of human perspective. What makes this axiom so insightful is its rejection of sacred place as an established place of sacred but instead a place that instills the feeling of sacred within the person experiencing it. There is no requirement to feel sacred, it merely occurs for the person experiencing it. I find Lane's use of these concepts mystical in nature because they ask the person seeking sacred to leave rules behind and let themselves exist as a participant in sacred instead of an observer.

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