The Crow's Enchanted Dance

Dr. Hilliard has devoted his academic life, as a professor of wellness, behavioral science, human performance, and higher education, to examining the concepts of spirituality, sacred place, and

sacred space both intellectually and experientially. He has analyzed hundreds of books on these

topics, interviewed an abundance of those who have witnessed their phenomena, and visited

countless sacred sites in the United States, England, Ireland, and France, including a period of

time living on the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian Reservation. In this text, he shares words

derived from his personal journals. Pondering reflections of what he has learned along his

journey. One of his significant findings is that research into sacred place and sacred space most

often occurs in the plural sense of sacred places and sacred spaces. Yet, until we understand the

singular aspect of a sacred place and a sacred space, we cannot begin to comprehend their plural

form.

His purpose in putting his thoughts and experiences about sacred place and sacred space

into print is to assist fellow explorers in opening their conscious, subconscious, and unconscious

minds, as well as their spiritual, meta-physical, and meta-cognitive pathways toward

experiencing the sacred enchantment that lies within sacred place and space. He has determined

we make this journey into enchantment by entering a state of being he refers to as in-spirit. Within

these pages, he shares how to begin and maintain this quest.