The valued narratives of a group, expressed in oral, pictorial and textual formats, in which identity is formed (at the individual and variously diverse social levels of a group of people), to which beliefs are created, maintained or devalued, and to which life is provided as meaningful.
Sacred texts narrate the world into a shared reality and provide glimpses as to how groups of people view themselves and others, as well as the world and its process around them. These narrations set meaning and order to that meaning of human existence and the existence of the world around them and orchestrates the interaction through relationships while also narrating higher forms or processes of power that permeate these relationships.
Sacred texts expound the processual relationships one has with oneself, others and the world at large; these relationships expand on the multiple levels of beingness or consciousness, grounded in and/or on a panentheistic, intrinsic, altruistic, transcendent, and/or transpersonal paradigm.
Sacred texts help us as individual human beings, as social animals that survive in collective groupings, and as part of the collective energy of life in order to orchestrate personal narratives around the core beliefs of our groups.
Why are some texts considered sacred? These texts have our identities attached to them more than any others. They are imbued with our personal meaning, preferences, beliefs, emotional violations, intentions and provide frameworks through examples, teachings, directions and the like at personal, interpersonal and transpersonal levels of our relationships within existence. They allow us to conceptualize ourselves into being.
Sacred texts justify our existence in relationship to a larger being and/or process by providing a larger narrative that orders the chaos of the world and its interactions with each of the various elements and provides us with information to interpret security in and for our lives.
