ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that by seeing and feeling spirit's touch in their everyday worlds practitioners encounter the emergence of new landscapes of experience, heterotopic' sacred spaces, constructed and touched by many actors, including the other-than-human. Each small-scale example of individuals or groups effecting material change in the world around them as a result of their relationship with spirit begins to map new topographies onto the landscapes we thought we knew. Seeing the impact of encounters with the otherworldly is part of everyday landscape for these spiritual practitioners, ensuring the continued material and sensed presence of the otherwise intangible. For the modern world is still touched by spirit and layered with magical intangibility of other worlds; but social science needs to look with new eyes to see this and to understand the sociological implications of presence of such enchanted realities. The things we touches by shape our worlds, marking out the contours of the tangible and intangible realities' we live in.
