Rational Mystic Sanctuary:
                                                            A VIRTUAL DWELLING PLACE IN THE WORLD WIDE WEB
 
 
 
 
 

For Heidegger the manner in which a human Being is in-the-world is dwelling. To dwell means "to remain, to stay in a place."1 He notes that this is the meaning of the Old High German word bauen which he took to mean both to dwell and to build, or building, which is a place of dwelling. But dwelling is not just an activity among many, it is not merely something that we "do" or an action that we perform. Rather we are the human kind of Being as dwelling, always already in primordial relation to the people and things of the world, though in our average everyday existence dwelling is not experienced as our essential being. It is the manner in which we are, for it is not a state but an ontological characteristic of our existence.

"The way in which you are and I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is Buan, dwelling. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell."2
 

1  Heidegger (1971), "Building, Dwelling, Thinking" in Poetry, Language, Thought, p. 146.
2  Ibid., p. 147