Dan Matarazzo Lane, Giving Voice to Place

When experiencing a sacred place, there is a more profound reasoning for the impact it leaves on you. The chthonic power, miraculous encounters, or spiritual powers might not be prevalent at the moment you experience the place. However, there is a greater power that is remembered from these experiences, as Lane describes about his student’s experiences, “yet they often do suggest that their experience was not simply inside their heads but was somehow shared in a particular moment by everything around them.” The action was not a regular occurrence, but rather the entire environment and moment plays its characteristic on the experience, and has a deeper meaning. I see this when you have a fond memory of a place, it’s the small details that matter the most.