It's the end of the world - Stephen Mason

In “Landscapes of the Sacred,” Lane recounts a work written by Rev. D. O. Van Slyke in which he describes his hometown of Galesville, Wisconsin as the setting for the Garden of Eden in Genesis. Lane explains that this conclusion comes from the human action of seeing the sacred not just in the cosmic but also in the particular. This action is a projection of peoples longing for their ordinary dwelling places to be transformed into Axis Mundi. In reading this I found similarities to the idea that people have that the world is going to end in their lifetime. Everyone tends to see this because they want to feel that the time that they live in is important. They wish that this end of days happens in their lifetime so that they can see this experience firsthand be It through a rapture or other end of the world scenario that is suggested by other religions.