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If you're curious about liminality, change, and transition and want to learn more, welcome! We've linked to selected articles about liminality, change and transition. Or perhaps you're interested in listening to our podcast with musings about embracing change as a bridge to personal transformation. If you prefer reading, check out our blog. We'd love to hear what else you'd like to learn - reach out any time. Abundant blessings as you connect to the wisdom of liminal times.
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The joy of “daydark” hours
Here in Maine, the sun is setting around 4 pm. At different times in my life, this would have been cause for grumpiness and lament. When the kids were all
Nurturing Compassion … in public restrooms
Recently I’ve felt my heart expand with compassion while in public restrooms. Yup, I’m just as surprised as you may be. Each week, Bill and I drive between Marstons Mills, MA
Liminality comes from the Latin līmen, meaning ‘threshold.’ In its literal sense, a threshold is a doorway. So liminality is the threshold, or gateway, between two stages and in that space lies tremendous wisdom.
More on Liminality
- "Betwixt, Between, and Becoming: On Liminality and Embracing the Precarious In-Between"
- "Limbo or Launchpad" (liminal space theory)
- Richard Rohr on Liminal Space
- The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces
- "Victor Turner and Liminality: An introduction"
- Victor Turner's article: "Liminality and Communitas"
- Victor Turner's article "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rite of Passage"
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“The essence of life takes place in the neutral zone phase of transition. It is in that interim spaciousness that all possibilities, creativity and innovative ideas can come to life and flourish.”
Susan Bridges
