Major Project - Searching for that which was lost....

Reading a passage from Rebecca Solnitt's book "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" (2005), I came across an explanation of the word "Shul"... - A Tibetan word that has multiple, but similar meanings.  In essence, it means impression, - that shape left behind when a foot walks across sand or mud; the shape left in a field of grass from a horses resting body, after it has risen and galloped away; but it also means other things too.
In Hebrew, Shul means temple, or tabernacle.  In thinking about this, there seems to be a link to those religious edifices, in that they hold impressions of those left before.  The spirit perhaps? The ghosts of older generations?  The heritage of the two millennia following the almost revolutionary reformation of religion is held within those walls.  The things left behind here, are in fact, all too present.

Conclusions...? - Well how on earth do I visualise this? - Do I need to? -  Or do I look towards an alternative aide memoire, using the other four sensory inputs of touch, smell, sound, or taste perhaps?  No, there are not the same sign posts for these senses, where a transaction takes place in one of these latter four, there is a trace of the SAME thing left behind, a remnant or fragment, fragrance of molecule, echo of the original.  How they are experienced however, is to remain the same.

In the visual interpretation, the original object left behind seems to be trapped in another manifestation, as this "shul" - so eloquently explained by the Tibetan meaning.