Daniel DeWyngaert - Belden Lane's Four Axioms

In the book, "Landscapes of the sacred," Belden Lane wrote of four different philosophical ideals that surrounded the spirituality and connection there of between a human and a certain landscape. Using these it is easier to view the sacred as a tangible thing within a landscape. .The first is that "a sacred places are not chosen, instead it chooses." The second axiom is that "sacred place is an ordinary place that is ritually made extraordinary through ritual." The third axiom states that "[a] sacred place can be tred upon without being entered." The fourth axiom says that "the impulse of sacred place is both centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal." Each of these will be explained further in their own blogs.