Eric Sutton-Landscapes #1

In the introduction, Lane says that sacred place is "more than a construction of the human imagination."  For a while, I found this statement baffling.  If not created by imagination, then what creates the sacred.  Imagination is typically used to go beyond the reality, which I often see as the place where sacred exists.  As the semester has progressed I began to understand that the sacred becomes part of the experience of living.  It's part of life and what is understood, for many, as a reason for living.  Imagination is outside of reality, but since sacred is a part of reality, then it must be outside of the imagination.  The sacred is not imagination because we make it into our reality.  While it starts in our imagination, we make it real as a part of the experience of living.  We have to make ourselves vulnerable to the idea that we can be affected by the sacred and that it doesn't just happen in our heads.