Jack Soule - Chosen #2

How many of you are familiar with the TV Series, Lost? Well Lost is an incredible example of sacred place. I'll fit it into Lane's 4 axioms. The characters in the show are told that the Island has a will and a plan and that it drew each of them there for a specific purpose. The Island chose the people who entered it, they did not choose to enter. Second, the Island can be trod upon without being entered: this exhibits itself in a few different ways. First, there are many people who cannot get to the Island simply because it does not want them there (so in theory, they fly over the Island on ocean-crossing flights, yet they are never aware it's there. Second, out of all the people on the Island (though they all, to some degree, enter to spirituality of the Island) some do not understand it like others do. For instance, it was recently revealed (SPOILER: stop reading if you don't want a lot of stressful contemplation over the course of 5 seasons of unanswered questions ruined!) that the Island serves the purpose of containing the evil of the world - keeps it from getting out to the rest of the world and corrupting everyone and destroying the world as it is known. A select few of the people stranded on the Island were brought there as candidates for the role of the guardian of the Island, while others are still unaware of its actual purpose. The third axiom only goes as far as the Island is just that - an island. Other than that there is absolutely nothing on God's green earth that makes that place normal. But, still, it's "just" an Island, made even crazier than it is on its own by all the events that have taken place on it. The Island does indeed seem to have a mutually local and universal impulse to it. A number of people are able to leave the Island, but their lives are all a wreck after doing so and they all end up deciding or being convinced that "we need to go back...we need to go back to the Island!" and "we were never supposed to leave!" The Island does have an eerie way of drawing people to itself - the show reveals that it has been doing so for centuries (possibly more). Yet there are also a great number of people who want to escape the Island (but they would certainly take the ridiculous amount of lessons they have learned home with them).