Heather Lees - Sacred Place Chooses

Looking at Lane's axiom, "sacred place is not chosen, it chooses" only became fully understood to me when thinking about my own personal experience. I don't consider myself a religious person. I don't go to church, I don't pray, and I don't feel the spiritual connection that I've heard people talk about. Although I do respect other people's religious beliefs, I do not go outside on a daily basis expecting to feel a spiritual connection. Having said all of that, I did not go to the Chapel of Alto Vista to choose it as being a sacred place. According to Lane, you can only experience sacred place after abandoning your search for axis mundi. The only spiritual connection I have ever felt happened at the Chapel of Alto Vista, when it was least expected. Suddenly I felt as though no people were around me and it was just me and the waves crashing against the cliff I was looking down on. It was a feeling I have never felt before, but was it religiously sacred to me? I can't answer that question. But I do know one thing: the Chapel of Alto Vista chose me, I did not choose the Chapel of Alto Vista.