David Ross - Cold Fever

In the movie "Cold Fever," the first axiom to affect the Japanese business man was the fourth Axiom. This states that a sacred place has an impulse, both centripetal and centrifugal, local and universal. Although he doesn't realize it, the sacred place, the place where he must perform the ritual where his parents died, is already calling to him. He's playing golf in his house, and the ball bounces off an object and into the TV remote, turning on a video of his parents. This is the place's way of exerting it's universal power, to call him to Iceland to perform the ritual for his parents.
When the movie starts out, he isn't involved with anything spiritual, and throughout the movie he learns more and more about it from the "helpers." This is a 'local' way that the spiritual place is involved in bringing him to it. He must make his way through many challenges before he can understand the importance of a sacred place and the ritual, but he will also receive help along the way. One of the helpers was a spirit incarnate in the form of a girl with a banshee cry. This actually kind of scared me when I saw that, because I thought she was going to make him explode too, but she was really just showing the power of what she could do. Earlier in the movie, it talked about faeries and faerie stones, so I think she may have been a faerie. But she definitely was one of the helpers, as she started his car with her scream.
Another of the axioms, the third one, doesn't need much explanation. It states that a sacred place can be tred upon without being entered. This is so because the sacred place he goes to is seemingly out in the wastes of Iceland. Anyone could have walked through that area and crossed that stream, but not realize it was a sacred place. It was only sacred to him because that is where he performed the ceremony for his parents. Anyone else wouldn't see it as a sacred place.
The second axiom relates back to the previous paragraph. It states that a sacred place is an ordinary place, ritually made extraordinary. As I said before, it was just an icy spot along a stream, no different from any other part of the area. But the businessman performed a ritual there, and therefore made it an extraordinary place. Perhaps it may not have looked that way to anybody else, but to him it was sacred. Finally, the first axiom states that a sacred place is not chosen, it chooses. This certain spot along the stream was not chosen by the businessman, it chose him. It was where he was headed throughout the entirety of his trip, though he may not have known it when he first started. When he arrived to perform the ritual, that sacred place spoke to him, and told him that was where to perform the ritual for his parents.