Sacred places are awe-inspiring; they are serene environments that encourage contemplation and meditation; and they create an attitude of respect
In BDSM, we experience sacred moments not between the individual and God, but between individuals. It’s nothing abstract or intangible. It’s the foot of your Master and the forehead of Your slave.
Moments of awe between Master and slave are common and visceral. The snapshot, goosebump, moment in time. A moment that is sacred, almost religious, when the Master’s control connects with the slave’s submission. The moment when power is exchanged, transferred from one to the other.
BDSM can be a transcendent experience without requiring a theological approach. It can create that sacred sensation of belonging to the universe, in the context of human connection. Metaphorically, the Master becomes the Universe and the slave becomes its believer/follower.
This practice of sacredness may explain why some of us find internal enslavement attractive. Surviving in modern society is difficult, especially when one is drawn by nature into various taboos. Religions do not provide a social script for us, and worse, many condemn deviance.
BDSM, for some of us, is an entrance to a sacred ground. A spiritual home of belonging, where our soul belongs to our Master, where we kneel before Him and pay homage to His feet. The Master is the center of the Universe. His heart is so big that He can stand still and have everything swirl around him.
The sacred experience that is similar to religion, can be achieved in what we call Topspace and subspace. The intensity of space does matter, but when we journey deeper, the space that is so difficult to explain may then be explained through the understand of sacredness. In that space, we journey beyond time and space, and we dance in a moment of totality between Master and slave. That moment of “totality” is similar to “Paradise” where history ends, and there is no future or past, but our body and soul exists as a whole, in that moment, in that space.