World Viewprovides people with a distinctive set of values, an identity, a feeling of rootedness, of belonging to a time and a place, and a felt sense of continuity with a tradition which transcends the experience of a single lifetime, a tradition which may be said to transcend even time. He goes on to explain how the word religion differs from the term world view. The authors have used the word spiritual to help define the word religion. A person or a people may have a guiding vision in common. Those times when they actually experience a hidden meaning in that vision are sacred moments.
Religions are, at their core, made up of sacred moments and sacred knowledge.
Sometimes organized religions lose sight of the emotions and sacred moments that are their guiding vision. Most Native American sacred ways allow for constant individual and collective revitalization of the emotions and mystical experiences that make up the core of their guiding vision. The sacred is also something that is shared, and this sharing or collective experience is necessary in order to keep the oral traditions and sacred ways vital. Having a guiding vision in common as a people and maintaining it with renewals, ceremonials, rituals and prayers, is what is called religious worship and practice. These people feel that knowledge should be searched for along with something else.