Comments on: Unsacred • Ian Corrigan

By: Happiness and Depression, the Saced and Spirituality | The Allergic Pagan

Happiness and Depression, the Saced and Spirituality | The Allergic Pagan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:01:26 +0000

[...] Over at No Unsacred Place, Ian Corrigan takes (etymological) issue with the premise of that blog: [...]

By: Lupa

Lupa — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:10:47 +0000

I think, even working within your definition, that while I can see and respect your perspective as one that differs from mine, it is different. To me, the sacred is everywhere I look, from the highest mountains to the colors mottling the plastic surface of the kitchen counter. What makes something sacred to me is its ability to inspire wonder, and I’ve yet to find something that didn’t do that to some degree.

That being said, I can also appreciate the specific parameters of ritual space as a conscious method of describing a unique junction in space and time. Humans are fond of ritual, and on a psychological level it can help bring our awareness into sharp focus. So while your definition of sacred differs from mine, I don’t see it as any less valid in the terms we’re speaking.

By: elfkat

elfkat — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:10:01 +0000

After 4 years of Latin a lot of research since I can comment that “sacra, sacrare, sacravi, sacratus’ means to set apart as holy, to devote, dedicate
Or to devote, doom or declare cursed
to render sacred or to hallow to render perishable.
It does not mean to cut off in the sense you used it.

By: Ananta Androscoggin

Ananta Androscoggin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:27:59 +0000

The “thing” being temporarily created by casting a circle, by casting a Ceremonial Magick circle with square/triangles &etc, inside an enclosing circle of trees/dolmens/trilithons/etc., setting up under an archway/what-have-you is “Liminal Space.”

Once upon a time this concept was a basic bit of instruction. I can’t really claim to know all that much, having begun these Pagan pathways in 1970-71 (see my library listing on my website).

Liminal Space is a place which is not entirely in this world, nor entirely in the other. It’s sort-of in between them, linking them together. The space between two boulders, trees, a crack in a cliff-face, the joins between the blocks of Jerusalem’s ‘Wailing Wall,’ etc., can be a gateway-sort of liminal space.

To those who see Deity as only Transcendent (monotheists mainly) and not Immanent, the concept of places which haven’t been made holy by priestly ceremony is just a bit of ordinary thinking.

By: "The Ik" - Conversations from the Porch

"The Ik" - Conversations from the Porch — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:59:10 +0000

I’m sorry to say that I caught this the other day, and, shared the “Unsacred Opinion” as an addendum/connection to our page.

Personally, I find the harping of the word “unsacred” pointless and moot as the name of your blog is *NO* Unsacred Place – there is not any space on this planet that is not sacred… to someone who holds faith in any higher power.

And, if that be the case, then there is truth: India may not be sacred to the Americans. However, it is to Indians; conversely, any other point on Earth to it’s inhabitants.

Besides, Mr. “Linguist”, there, has applied more High Ceremonial magicks into his Druidic practice that to attach the word “Celtic” to his artes is a horrible misappropriation of cultural identity.

Alas! I cannot complain, overmuch… I follow both of your blogs.

Keep being you.