Essay On Sacred Space

For religions human beings space is non homogeneous. This means that there are sacred places that hold more significance than others. There are more defined spaces that are broken up. That is there are sacred places and profane spaces. While a profane human being would not encounter a break between a sacred space and profrane space. They would only have profane space. This discovery of a sacred place leads to a center point, an almost creation of a new world. The fixed point allows for a religiously oriented human being to return to a point in time. It is a central axis for all future returns.

Religion is a part of the human mental and emotional make up. It is said to be the foundation of society. Historical people used to believe in many gods and goddess. They protected the …show more content…
The Native American tribes valued the land as life comes from the land, it is where you return after death. They believed in taking from the land without destroying it. They participated in rituals that honored the land and the animals that they used to live and survive.
They perceive the world as cosmos, which was created by god or dedicated to a god. Cosmos is considered sacred. While chaos is not, chaos is considered an interruption of the sacred. A religious person is scared of the chaos. Someone in chaos is comparable to nothingness. In cosmos a person is closet to god and will have the ability to communicate with god.

Secular humans will view the world without sacred. It has not been presented to them. They would not have the same fear of chaos as a religious human being, but that means that would also not have an understanding of cosmos, and that connection and happiness within the cosmos.

When a person enters the cosmos they have left the ordinary or the normal. They have transformed themselves into the belief of the cosmos. As a place where they can communicate on another