ABSTRACT
In our perception of environment(s) as sacred what provokes our veneration and what is its relevance for the place-making process? I begin with a quotation taken from James Swan’s book Sacred Places.
The more I have learned about sacred places, the more I have come to understand and respect the way that traditional cultures experience place and nature, which is very different from the way modern society teaches us to perceive. There is value in both ways of seeing and being, but, if people don’t have the sense of knowing that comes first from feeling, then they have lost the root of being human, and application of the scientific method only tends to draw us further and further away from where we must go. 1
(My emphasis)