Up: [[Spirituality]] Created: 2024-05-30 The term comes from Mircea Eliade. It means seeing all layers of existence, not just the surface layer. This is a challenging concept for me. When I was taking [[Sharon Blackie]]'s courses there was constant talk of everything, including rocks, being animate. I was incredulous when one woman made a mandala out of stones on the beach and then felt she needed to apologize to the stones because she hadn't asked their permission to be moved. Seriously?? Anyway, any time you make a tree, or a stone, or a wafer of bread, the focus of worship, you've turned it into a hierophany, an object of the sacred. My interest in this term is in its connection to the tarot card [[5 - Hierophant]].