James Joseph: Landscape of the Sacred (3)

Lane's third axiom states "Sacred place can be tread upon without entering", and is probably the most essential of the 4 guiding axioms, to me at least. I believe that this world is a sacred place as a whole, and even though we as individuals only relate our spiritual experiences to certain places, there are enough people in the world to literally have every occupiable space be a sacred place. However, we are rarely recognizant of these other sacred places, for they are not sacred to us individually. This same axiom really can be applied everywhere, for if I am visiting a city, I will be walking on and amongst many sacred places without having the slightest recognition of such. Looking at a workplace as an example, we now know that a new employee would not hold much significance to their new place of work, spiritually at least, until they have made a personal connection after having been there a longer amount of time. That is why it is more likely for new employees to leave on their own inhibition, or why employers find it easier to deal with letting off newer employees as opposed to those who have been there longer. This idea of sacred place being universally everywhere is in a way our definition of being human; for it is our connection to the sacred that push, pull and propel us through our lives.