Stones Marianna Lines Sacred spaces...
– are these the ancient stones and stone enclosures that take us back thousands of years, millennium?
– are these arbours of trees which hold us tight, keep us feeling safe?
– are these loch side places with water to nurture and cleanse?
– are these our own inner spaces where we hide away, find solace, find silence, find retreat, find ourselves?
I have spent many years within sacred spaces that have been created by the ancient ones, those ancestors of ancestors who came before in Scotland. My book, ‘Sacred Stones, Sacred Places’ takes a view of that world. The art I have created with these stoney ‘calligraphied’ carved messages puts me in contact with an ancient energy in a tactile way, wherein I virtually put my hand in their hand by touching the stone.
The essence of it all – is that what we are seeking? Like the essence within a bottle, the essence of a flower, the essence of an experience, the essence of a place. It is that essential being within we yearn for.
Sacred stones are spaces in themselves, where something that is special is kept by some higher force within the molecules of the material, and the symbols on the stones tell the story we are deciphering and trying to understand.
Finding your own sacred space is perhaps 21
easier than going to your local standing stone, walking into a nearby wood, finding a chapel, or a ruin; these places that give that woozy feeling of being in a spiritual time warp.
Sacred space is what moves you into that inner sacred space; such as riding your bike along a country road and seeing a loose skein of pinkfeet geese go over, with the sun setting and the air still warm.
“Hush, this is a sacred place. Someone’s god has talked here, walked here. . .”
from SACRED PLACES by Jane Yolen (writer based in US and St. Andrews, Scotland)
MARIANNA LINES Collessie, Fife
www.stoneline.co.uk
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