NSBH: Sacred Places

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Sacred Places

"Underlying all of the chapters of this book is a request that we look more closely at ourselves, at how we want to live, at what inspires us, and at what our planet needs to return to balance. If we can start reflecting these values in what we build to house ourselves, we will be making a small but significant incremental step in helping humanity to truly live the extraordinary spirit that we are born with. Our senses are finely attuned to perceive beauty and to taste delight in every birdsong and every unfurling leaf. Over time we can too easily become jaundiced to these simple pleasures of existence, and our homes become just one more chore to maintain. What if instead they daily inspired us to be all that we can be, filled us with feelings of appreciation for the richness that always surrounds us if we will only look?"

--from The Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka

These links are offered to give you ideas about the type of environment you might want to develop in your home, as well as tools to utilize in your design. They are also offered for the sheer wonder of what they say about our species and its connection with the universe.

Sacred Places

A Sacred Place: Home an article by Sarah Susanka from SoulfulLiving.com.

Scaffold: WWW Architectural Project
We particularly like the mandala and yantra diagrams on the clickable map.

UNESCO World Heritage List
A list of 552 properties, with links, approved by the World Heritage Committee to be included on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

Ultimate Feng Shui
Dedicated to helping Feng Shui "shed its snake-oil-and-incense image".

Mid-Atlantic Geomancy
Geomancy, sacred space, sacred geometry and the MAG E-zine. The labyrinth animations are fascinating.

Veriditas
The World-Wide Labyrinth project.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympus, the Temple of Artemus at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Click on the "Other Wonders" link to find links to "forgotten" wonders unknown to the ancient Greeks but still extant today, such as Angkor Wat, the Taj Majal, the Mayan Temples of Tikal, Mont-Saint Michel, the Easter Island statues, Machu Picchu, the Parthenon, and many others.