Lindsey Ceniviva On Phenomenal

In class we were reading through Lane’s Book, Landscapes of The Sacred, and began to thoroughly break down some of his descriptive terms. He expressed how “Language is the house of being” and how the house is actually our world that we live in. He goes on to say how God is the creator and we are the subcreators. We described this as, when our senses are being stimulated there is a raw sensation, when is organized around space and time as well. Space is noted as an esthetic feeling and time is a perception. The phenomenal produces a stimulant that gives us a raw sensation, and then the mind translates the transcendental. The result is the knowledge that we are cut-off from that world. The phenomenal is the world that we have access to; the noumenal is God’s perspective. Although this is a complex approach to Lane’s theories, breaking down each term really helped. In class we discussed how the senses perceive certain stimuli and how they differ from our perspective of the world and God’s. I found this very fascinating and after going over it with the class, I could imply it to the example in the text.