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"Sacredness has to do with our everyday world. It
is not a once-a-week kind of thing. It underlies, but
is distinct from, the religious expressions of the
sacred which often tend to separate us from others
with different spiritual traditions."
Tom Bender in "Silence, Song and Shadows"
is not a once-a-week kind of thing. It underlies, but
is distinct from, the religious expressions of the
sacred which often tend to separate us from others
with different spiritual traditions."
Tom Bender in "Silence, Song and Shadows"
Sacred Space:
Here I embark on a subject about which I will be learning and sharing for the rest of my life.
Care to join me on the adventure?
Obvious connections between architecture and sacred space are buildings constructed for
some particular religious group's worship to whatever it is they conceive of as a Supreme Holy
Being/ Energy Source such as churches, tabernacles, mosques, temples, etc. But I'd like to
open the ideas of 'place' to include 'space' and the idea of architecture to include systems.
Space: is the unlimited expanse in which everything is located... Quantum Physics
Perhaps stating a gross generalization, Native Americans consider everything to be sacred,
the seen as well as the unseen. F. David Peat, in his book "Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into
the Native American Universe" offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of the
parallel paradigms of the current "Western/European" and Indigenous world views as they
pertain to how we live Life; intelligence, language, science, mathematics, health/medicine,
celebrations/ceremonies, etc..
"To enter into this domain is to question what we mean by space and time, by the
distinctions between the living and the nonliving, by the individual and society,
by dreams and visions, by perception and reality, by causality and synchronicity,
by time and eternity." page 4, Blackfoot Physics by David Peat
Much of the "Western" idea of Sacred begins and ends at the church door, and this mostly
for a few hours on Sunday, rarely to enter the building for the other seconds, minutes and
hours of the rest of our lives. Of course, we may get married and buried in the church and
show up for Christmas and Easter services, but for the most part, that's about it. We cherish
and respect our places of worship but leave our practice of religion and sense of Spirit inside
the building at noon on Sunday ... we then get on with "real" life.
We see evidence of this loss of connection in today's society in the unmasking of major
scandals involving corporate, political and religious leadership. This is evidence of a loss of
consciousness and practice of ethical and moral behavior as it relates to our fellow humans,
and the planet and ALL her living inhabitants.
For this reason I make a distinction between Sacred/Spiritual and Religious. Spiritual and the
Sacred can not be limited to buildings. The Sacred/Spiritual enfolds religion in her arms.
Here I embark on a subject about which I will be learning and sharing for the rest of my life.
Care to join me on the adventure?
Obvious connections between architecture and sacred space are buildings constructed for
some particular religious group's worship to whatever it is they conceive of as a Supreme Holy
Being/ Energy Source such as churches, tabernacles, mosques, temples, etc. But I'd like to
open the ideas of 'place' to include 'space' and the idea of architecture to include systems.
Space: is the unlimited expanse in which everything is located... Quantum Physics
Perhaps stating a gross generalization, Native Americans consider everything to be sacred,
the seen as well as the unseen. F. David Peat, in his book "Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into
the Native American Universe" offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of the
parallel paradigms of the current "Western/European" and Indigenous world views as they
pertain to how we live Life; intelligence, language, science, mathematics, health/medicine,
celebrations/ceremonies, etc..
"To enter into this domain is to question what we mean by space and time, by the
distinctions between the living and the nonliving, by the individual and society,
by dreams and visions, by perception and reality, by causality and synchronicity,
by time and eternity." page 4, Blackfoot Physics by David Peat
Much of the "Western" idea of Sacred begins and ends at the church door, and this mostly
for a few hours on Sunday, rarely to enter the building for the other seconds, minutes and
hours of the rest of our lives. Of course, we may get married and buried in the church and
show up for Christmas and Easter services, but for the most part, that's about it. We cherish
and respect our places of worship but leave our practice of religion and sense of Spirit inside
the building at noon on Sunday ... we then get on with "real" life.
We see evidence of this loss of connection in today's society in the unmasking of major
scandals involving corporate, political and religious leadership. This is evidence of a loss of
consciousness and practice of ethical and moral behavior as it relates to our fellow humans,
and the planet and ALL her living inhabitants.
For this reason I make a distinction between Sacred/Spiritual and Religious. Spiritual and the
Sacred can not be limited to buildings. The Sacred/Spiritual enfolds religion in her arms.
View of standing stones at Avebury, GB 12/21/2007
North Carolina
Backyard Refuge
DuPont Forest, Brevard,
North Carolina
North Carolina
Spa refuge
Love, from Gaia
For information, please contact me at:
susan@sacredspacecelebrations.com
susan@sacredspacecelebrations.com
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