Emily Madeline- Lane's 4 axioms.

Axioms, I think, are good & bad. Good because it gives you a way to try to define sacred place. Bad because it leaves you with such a broad definition. The first axioms: sacred place isn't chosen, it choose. I can't even imagin trying to pick a sacred place. It puts too much expectation on the place itself. You have a good experience once, what says you'll have another one again? The second: its ordinary ritually made extraordinary. So you go to a place, have some sort of experience, do a ritual and now it's considered sacred? The idea of that is wild. But it makes sense I suppose, especially if you come from an indigenous or native american background. The third: tread upon but not entered. I fell like this has a lot to do with mindset. If you aren't in the right mindset, then you can walk all over a place and not realize it. Mindset and attitude are huge factors in life. If you are not in the right mindset during classes or while you are at work the you won't get the most out of it. If you go through life with the wrong attitude or are always busy thinking about something else, it isn't gonna work out for you. And the fourth axiom: spiritual place is centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal. This idea confuses me. Where did it come from? I feel like it was randomly made up.