Ryan Rusbuldt- Landscapes- 1

Lane had three approaches to understanding the "medicine wheel" as Sacred Place. He said that these 3 skills will help interpreter the personal experience of a place. The approaches that Lane teaches are the ontological, cultural, and phenomenological approaches. The ontological approach means that a sacred place is RADICALLY set apart from everything profane, or evil. The cultural approach explained that the "notion that sacred places inherently possess an intentionality and power drawn from within or beyond themselves(Lane,43). The Phenomenological approach was demanding the attention of the people to the realization that the existence between humans and a "more than human world." However, Lane stressed the importance of "embodiment in the human experience of place (Lane, 44)."