becoming able to grasp the sacred

Mircea Eliade wrote:

The process of the desacralization of the world, of life, and of history, which triumphs today is due above all to our inability to grasp the mystery of the camouflaging of the sacred in the profane.

The world in which we move, and live and have our being as sacred home, as Mother Earth, and Father Sky. The world as in which we relate to our extended family of fellow creatures. This has been lost by the modernist way of objectifying and manipulating nature, so that the world becomes a thing. And we become aliens to ourselves, to each other and the cosmos that is our source and sustains our lives.

Is it as simple as Eliade pronounces, an inability to grasp the hidden sacred in the ordinary? Perhaps.

We say desacralization, but the world is the same world that it always has been for us, it is we who have lost our way, and our ability "to grasp." it is interesting that Eliade uses the metaphor of tactile sense, rather than the metaphor of sight, or the metaphor of hearing.

It much of Western religious writing we "see" the truth, and "hear" the wisdom. But we also embrace, hold, and "grasp."