Places of the Heart: Designing for Ecstatic Bliss & Progressive Evolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780998822907)

Studying the transcendent qualities of spaces that allow one to experience peak timeless moments of joy, awe and tranquility, must be of primary importance. These experiences are expressions of an ethereal nature cast by the patterns of time, night and day, and crafted by light, action and motion that is ensuing at that moment. Nature, people, architecture, urban design, proportions that please, play an intangible role in prompting these experiences. This intangible synthesis of factors is always present and in motion. Breaking through the personal barriers of habit, mindlessness, preconception and opinion, into lucid moments of perception, recognition and awareness is all that is required to be completely in a present that is charged with breathtaking clarity. The spiritual presence of space exists ultimately through the sensitivity of the mind and body of each human being. The lens of perception is focused by internal, energetic and animated space that connects everyone, and everything in our conscious reality. The personal experience of such space, as it resonates with universal energy, attunes the individual to a profoundly spiritual state of being. Through caring, sharing and trust, community is born. This spiritual temperament may be cultivated and actualized by spatial configuration and design.