The sacred tree or sacred stone is not venerated as a stone or a tree but, because of hierophany, as something sacred. As a sacred tree, or a sacred stone, the tree is no longer a tree and the stone no longer a stone.
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For what makes something sacred is not that it is somehow connected to the divine but that it is the subject of a prohibition that sets it radically apart from something else, which is itself thereby made profane.
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The idea here is, I will post a question or two from time to time and am hoping people will enjoy posting their thoughts or ideas in response to them. Here goes... What makes something sacred? (By the way, there's a question in the blog below this one....) Ok, now comment damn it!!!!
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Inga quotes from Itzhak Bentov: �Imagine a rock in the desert. This inanimate (yet not �dead� as we perceive it) object has a very low level of consciousness. Its threshold of consciousness is stimulated by contact with various small animal...
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Read Gael Bage's latest blog entry titled What makes something sacred? on Gaia Community ... Thanks Gael, it is always amazing to me that Man, simply by virtue of viewing something and pronouncing it sacred, believes he has the power to make it so. Oh, well, we are very young yet, we'll get over it. Have you put your garden...
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Granting the sacred makes keeping on with the hard work a faithful, rather than a despairing, enterprise. Successes are not accepted without thanks to God and failures are not endured without pleas to the heavens. ... When we hold something sacred, our approach to life will be different than when we do not. And,
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Listen to Eels – Something Is Sacred (full track) for free. Something Is Sacred appears on the album Daisies of the Galaxy. ... maxw1 added Something Is Sacred to the playlist. Sunday afternoon...
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What makes something ICONIC? Is it when it is something familiar, something everyone can identify with? Or is it something that 'thinks outside the box', breaks all the traditions, and is radical when considered alongside everything else? ... Dictionary definition of Icon is: a sacred painting or mosaic;
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I think that is why I am Dreading the Watchmen Movie.  A friend of mine send me some Watchmen links including a link to Rorschach's Journal.(which vox will not let me link)  I know that this excites other people, ... There are so many reasons that the Watchmen is my favorite comic.  The story is amazing, ... Jul 5, 2007 at 6:37 PM...
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What makes something sacred? (In your opinion.) I'm not asking what you consider to be sacred. We've covered that in different threads. I'm asking what it means for something to be sacred. Is it ... Re: What makes something sacred?
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