Sunrise at Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt 1. The Universal Longing for the Sacred Human beings have celebrated the sacred throughout history. Although the form, the myths and stories, the Gods and Goddesses, the rituals change, the holy longing for connection with spiritual forces, with energies more powerful and meaningful than our own lives, do not. This holy longing and reverence for an all-knowing, powerful, loving energy and “Being” is not mere projection and wishful thi