The Function of Sacramentality

One of the ways in which you can improve your capacity to make your way through the world is to be committed to a spiritual community and a spiritual path. Presumably, it also has a history behind it, it has institutions, et cetera, and that would make it more prototypically like a religion. But I think there is a mistake if we think that sacredness can be reduced to or identified solely with the machinery of world view attunement and homing us against horror. It's very plausible to me that this is a necessary feature of sacredness, but I do not think it is a sufficient feature.