Jan 24, 2024 09:34 PM
(This post was last modified: Jan 25, 2024 12:04 AM by Magical Realist.)
"The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae ("threshold people") are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial. As such, their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon."---Victor Turner
"In contemporary anthologies such as Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality,[21] and The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope[22] topics such as poetic interpretations, Central American notions of the in-between, pilgrimage, spiritual transformation, crisis passages, war, natural disaster, cross-cultural adoption, climate change and spirituality, religious shifts, cyborgs, critical illness, prison, social collapse and reconstruction, gender, and communities in conflict, extreme adventure, initiation, process of transition, ritual, complex liminalities, spiritual practices, black experience, education abroad, genocide, therapeutic practices, ecological collapse, and the arts are explored by a variety of thinkers and practitioners in light of their liminal nature."--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
Shamanism as well represents a kind of in-between state or person that goes back and forth between worlds. The shaman is a mediator and conduit between the realm of the transcendental and the realm of the mundane. Their's is the consciousness of transformation and metamorphisis, allowing experience and interaction between the domains of the superficial and the sublime, the profane and the profound.
"In contemporary anthologies such as Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality,[21] and The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope[22] topics such as poetic interpretations, Central American notions of the in-between, pilgrimage, spiritual transformation, crisis passages, war, natural disaster, cross-cultural adoption, climate change and spirituality, religious shifts, cyborgs, critical illness, prison, social collapse and reconstruction, gender, and communities in conflict, extreme adventure, initiation, process of transition, ritual, complex liminalities, spiritual practices, black experience, education abroad, genocide, therapeutic practices, ecological collapse, and the arts are explored by a variety of thinkers and practitioners in light of their liminal nature."--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
Shamanism as well represents a kind of in-between state or person that goes back and forth between worlds. The shaman is a mediator and conduit between the realm of the transcendental and the realm of the mundane. Their's is the consciousness of transformation and metamorphisis, allowing experience and interaction between the domains of the superficial and the sublime, the profane and the profound.