ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the occurrence of feelings of spirituality and the sacred, not through the popular and academic understandings of sacred journeys, including the often exemplar pilgrimage, but through a reasoning that is open in terms of immanence beyond or outside of that founded in institutions and ritual practices of formal religion. It explains emphasis upon practice and process, the doing of journeys. Discussion of the relation between performance and space draws fresh considerations into meanings surrounding 'sacred' and of 'journeying' and journeys. Journeys are coloured by their commingling relationality with space. Flirting with space implies openness, uncertainty, fluidity and contingency, following Doreen Massey in close-up individual and shared practice and feeling. In journeys our feelings about ourselves in the world are negotiated but also happen to us. Immanence can emerge from this creativity. The chapter explains theoretical reflections in an examination of a repositioning of conceptual reasoning around sacred journeys relationally with ideas of space and its making-significance.
