Sacred Space 2

I have never succeeded in aggressively and purposefully setting up a sacred space, a space where people feel and respect the love, a space where hurts and issues spontaneously resolve.  I have succeeded in setting up the conditions for a sacred space, and then allowing it to happen.  My experience is that setting up the necessary conditions requires the willingness of everyone present.  Given that willingness, setting up the conditions for a sacred space within a sweat lodge ceremony involves blessing everything involved with tobacco and a sacred feather.  For events like the group meeting mentioned yesterday, setting up the conditions for a sacred space involves self-disclosure and open vulnerability of the leader.  In each case setting up the conditions for a sacred space involves the unspoken, unconditional, total acceptance of any and all aspects of the human condition; “when all the opposites meet within a man, good and also evil, light and also darkness, spirit and also body, brain and also heart, masculine focused consciousness and at the same time feminine diffuse awareness, wisdom of maturity and childlike wonder”.