Liz Cathey: Personal Choice 1

After coming to my realization that nature helps exemplify God and religion, I began to look at everything a little bit differently and with a more critical eye, especially when it came to the principles and lessons that we have learned throughout the course of this semester.  The first aspect of our course that I looked at in a different light was Lane’s four axioms.  As we learned in class, these axioms are used to help better understand a sacred place and its meaning.  The axioms are as follows: 1) A sacred place is not chosen, it chooses, 2) A sacred place is ordinary, but ritually made extraordinary, 3) A sacred place can be tred upon without being entered, and 4) The impulse of a sacred place is both centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal.  My favorite of these is the fourth axiom, because I know that I personally hold onto every sacred moment that I've had in my life, and will take them everywhere with me for the rest of my life.