Sacred Spaces

Vee said:

My place is just a bit bigger than a shoebox, so no extra space for anything at all. I don't have any place that I would call sacred, but I find that when I need to meditate and feel more at peace, nature does the job. If I take a walk on the beach or somewhere with lots of trees I feel so much better.

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Absolutely. Nature has wonderful healing properties, even just going for a walk in it is healing.

My bedroom closet has been (mostly) repurposed as a shrine where I can
pray/meditate. There is a dresser in there that serves as an altar, with a beautiful
statue of Lord Krishna as the centerpiece, flanked by two angels, candles, and an
incense burner. It's also where I commune with my soul-twin who is currently on the
Other Side (long story, and at the end of the day it could be that I'm just nuts).
One time I went in there to get closer to Lord Krishna and came out feeling like
my soul-twin got closer to me. I was thinking, "This isn't how it was supposed to
work!"

*Anyway*, I change the décor based on the seasons, so right now it's decked out for
Spring. And I don't use it nearly as much as I would like to. But it's still nice to have
there, radiating a certain otherworldly vibe.

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My apartment isn't very big, but I have a corner of my bedroom that's set up as my altar/shrine/whatever. I don't really use that part of the room for anything else.

I keep flameless tea lights (because I'm scared I'll burn the house down otherwise), "flowers" I crocheted myself (because I don't have the funds for fresh flowers regularly, unfortunately), my tablet with my puja instructions and scriptures in it, and, of course, my small Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati on it.

Rival said:

I do mean Horus

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I used to have a bronze statue of Shiva I bought back in my atheist days.
But when I became a monotheistic believer I got mixed feelings about it.
Part of me said I should get rid of it because it's supposed to represent an actual deity that looks like a creature.
But another part of me said it was okay to keep it, because I don't attribute any special qualities to it or pray to it (nor did I ever feel the temptation to do so), only that it's a beautiful piece of art and thus suitable for decoration.

Since I couldn't make up my mind, I choose to give it to my mom instead, because I knew she would be happy with it.

Left Coast said:

For years, my mother has had what she calls a "Joy Room" ......For non-religious folks, by "sacred" I don't necessarily mean something religious or supernatural, but rather a space that is set aside from the mundane daily tasks of life that helps you feel calm or at peace

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Psychics use objects to concentrate. Some use Ouija boards, others use crystal balls, others use crystals (typically blue, such as lapis lazuli), while still others (such as Edgar Cayce and Nostradomus) use metal vases of water.

Whatever object is used has no intrinsic magic or power. There should be no fear that such objects are heathen nor cursed nor deal with the devil. To the contrary, the spirit, and the spirit alone, is responsible for psychic acts (communication, astral projection, future knowledge, etc).

It is in this calm that one finds peace and some can communicate with the angels or God.

Angels hate talking to humans. Humans are crude, and think of bodily things (poop, pee, medical issues, burping, etc). Some are involved in money (there is no money in heaven). Only under dire circumstances will angels talk to psychics.

The walls of heaven are psychic-proof....unable to be peered through. The walls consist of a psychic vortex of energy, similar to the vortex that surrounds hell, but opposite (one keeps psychics out, while the other keeps souls in).

When God ordered his psychics to tell the world not to attack Iraq (recently, not a long time ago in Revelation, which also warns not to attack Iraq or face God's wrath), these psychics were spied on by the W. Bush administration.

We know that George Herbert Walker Bush and his son George W. Bush were members of Skull and Bones at Yale, and, as members, practiced occult practices, with cauldrons, incantations, human skulls and human skeletons. But, through their stint with the occult, the Bush family also gained respect for psychics.

President George H. W. Bush was in charge of project MKULTRA, and, as such had them spy on people. The government badly abused psychics (for example, David Moorehouse). MKULTRA was supposed to have been shut down, but during the W. Bush administration, they had it up and running. They used sensory deprivation chambers to get multiple psychics to work together to probe for information. They all traveled along the same silver thread as they eavesdropped on the psychics of God. This irked the psychics of God who were frustrated because, despite their much greater power, found that they could not push away psychic power. Rather, I explained to them that they could alter the direction of the psychic power, and spin it in a circle (forming a vortex, very similar to the ones that surrounds heaven and hell. This has the effect of preventing the cooperating government psychics from getting through. I also explained that with practice they were able to send wrong information to those who spy on them.

Some of the psychics of God were upset because it was strange to use psychic powers, but, they got used to the idea.

The psychics of God, faithfully carried out God's orders to tell the world not to attack Iraq, but the world didn't listen to them.

I suppose that no one will listen to Christ when he has his second coming.

My mother has turned a closet in the walkway of her house into a little temple. It’s actually quite nice, if I’m honest. She even has some nice little flashing lights around it.

My sanctuary is my woman cave. Surrounded by books falling off the shelves, my video games and my stupid little collectable toys. I relish in my own immaturity and geekiness. Lol

Gargovic Malkav said:

I used to have a bronze statue of Shiva I bought back in my atheist days.
But when I became a monotheistic believer I got mixed feelings about it.
Part of me said I should get rid of it because it's supposed to represent an actual deity that looks like a creature.
But another part of me said it was okay to keep it, because I don't attribute any special qualities to it or pray to it (nor did I ever feel the temptation to do so), only that it's a beautiful piece of art and thus suitable for decoration.

Since I couldn't make up my mind, I choose to give it to my mom instead, because I knew she would be happy with it.

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That was sweet of you.

I am still a monotheist

To me, it really has to do with the outdoors.. about a mile and a half away from me, there is like a wetland type park you can walk in. I went there yesterday morning, and the frost on the ground sparkled with a rainbow effect as the spring dawn rose around me.. and the mist rising, with the first scent of spring.. and great varieties of birds singing all around me.. Trying to enjoy it before they build up the entrance area with suburbs.. which you'll be to see a good ways in, since they will be on a hill, kinda takes the magic out of it a bit. But I guess nothing ever really lasts.. I wonder if they will kinda de-wild the area after that too

I have a shrine with Nataraja and a wooden carving of ॐ where I sit for my morning meditation, but I'm not sure it's any more sacred than any other place. It's just a convenient and practical place for me to meditate.

Objects are no longer a requisite of making a space sacred for me. I can make pretty much make any space sacred, even the driver's seat of my work truck. Over the years I've come to realize that it's me that makes a space sacred, not statues, tools or symbols.

SalixIncendium said:

Objects are no longer a requisite of making a space sacred for me. I can make pretty much any space sacred, even the driver's seat of my work truck. Over the years I've come to realize that it's me that makes a space sacred, not statues, tools or symbols

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Your post above is so on point for me.

While I used to reserve a sacred "alcove" (as I noted earlier) when I lived in the busy heart of one of London's main thoroughfares and I retain a desire, even today, to turn my garden into a quiet haven of reflection, I'm acutely aware that my religion calls for one to know God in everything and relinquish any sacred/profane binary.

Given that all matter is basically a "small-letter" sacrament (a physical sign of hidden grace, since God is omnipresent) and the human body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in whom we live, and move and have our being, one is encouraged to say with Meister Eckhart:

SalixIncendium said:

Over the years I've come to realize that it's me that makes a space sacred, not statues, tools or symbols.

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So is it you specifically, or will any owl do?

JustGeorge said:

So is it you specifically, or will any owl do?

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Well any owl that...how did @Rival put it...looks like roadkill.