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liminal spaces have always been there - even when we don't realise

Starting here: to open the space for sharing more...

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Ref: https://mysticmeandering.blogspot.com/2013/12/thresholds-john-odonohue-and-rumi.html

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True to its etymology ("liminal" being derived from the Latin word limen, meaning "threshold"), the concept of a liminal space encompasses physical spaces that, due to their function, are transitional in nature - hallways, waiting rooms, parking lots and rest stops are the archetypical examples of such places. Liminal space aesthetics relate to the unique feelings of eeriness, nostalgia, and apprehension people report when presented with such places outside of their designed context; most notably, their function as intermediary points between origin and destination.

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The Scottish-American anthropologist Victor Turner was key in the conceptual elaboration of the connection between communitas and crisis. Communitas as an open, egalitarian and solidary community seeks to overcome ethnic, national and social hierarchical boundaries such as gender or class and to form a counterweight to the "cold", normative structure of society.

According to Turner, communitas is not based on fixed social structures, but emerges in liminality - for Turner, the liminal phase of ritual - and is accompanied by an associated leveling of (social) differences. As a collective threshold state, liminality is characterized by a high degree of performativity of symbolic actions as well as their transformative power and thus, according to Erika Fischer-Lichte, opens up "cultural scope for experimentation and innovation".

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https://www.timeout.com/london/art/mark-rothko-1968-clearing-away-review

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...at, within, and on both sides of the liminal... 

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...at, within, and on both sides of the liminal... 

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Light flows (in)to these unknown (less cared for) places

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https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Liminality-and-Communitas-by-Victor-Turner.pdf

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Manifiesto (Victor Jara) with English Subtitles

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Eddie Vedder - Society - Into The Wild - HD 1080p - Soundtrack - lyrics

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Bathroom contemplating... In the wonderful space and home of Daniel & Jennifer: https://hoernemann-walbrodt.de/

The space in between is what can separate us, and also what can connect us / bring us closer together into being.

Whether 'Two of a Kind' or unkind / different... We are all connected. All Life is connected, connecting...

... and the immense potential of liminal spaces continues in perpetuity...

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...last week, after the Lighthouse opened gently and gently closed... we transitioned from one liminal space and entered into another one... the liminal was unbroken, cherished along the way - and so to the more stable, fixed places in between...

This song was one of many along the way that formed a soundtrack to accompany the liminal journey:

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C.G. Jung finished this archetype on the 25th of November 1922. The day I saw it in his Red Book in Zurich- a few 100 meters away from the house he lived in. It symbolizes for me how the upper world is connected to the underworld by the liminal. The space in the middle of the image at the trunk of the tree. Making reference how small our conscious part of the world is.

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“In order to find your way, you must become lost,” 

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“In order to find your way, you must become lost,” 

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... says Bayo Akomolafesays in a recent symposium of the International Society for Systems Sciences, referring to a Nigerian proverb. While the subjective experience being freed from forms of structure might be seen by some as exhilarating, and while we know that this experience is ripe with potential for growth and transformation, for many the task of having to navigate through life without a reliable sense of guidance—often accompanied by a corporeal sense of loss—feels daunting and intimidating (Kelly, 2008).

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The "liminal" becoming popular in science

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The "liminal" becoming popular in science

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One concept that has gained much attention due to its ability to capture both the essence and emergence of such interregnum, or in-between states and the problems and tensions inherent in transitioning from one state to another, is that of ‘liminality.’ For Thomassen (2016), liminality refers to:...momentsor periods of transition during which the normal limits to thought, self-understanding and behaviour are relaxed, opening the way to novelty and imagination, construction and destruction. For these reasons, the concept of liminality has the potential to push social and political theory in new directions. (p. 1)As a concept, liminality was first described by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in his 1909 publication Les Rites de Passage(van Gennep 1909/2013), in which he studied the importance of transitions for any society. In his culture-transcending empirical work, van Gennep saw that rites of passage appeared to follow a generic pattern. The sequence he identified begins with a phase of separation, characterized by disjointing anddetachment from the given order of things, and moves to a phase of incorporation and integration. The middle phase he coined as the ‘liminal phase,’with the feeling of liminality leading to feelings of ambiguity and unsettling uncertainty for the liminalsubject(s), which include individuals and collectives alike.

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...from these individual qualities to the dimension of social space or a “container” in which interpersonal relations take place and the roles which shared experiences of liminality and communitas might play in creating conditions for transformation at the level of social and personal meaning systems.
Shifting attention from individuals or collections of individuals to the ‘social space’ or ‘container’ requires us to lean into new methodologies and epistemologies that represent other possible ways of knowing and shaping our world at this time, across different cultures, contexts, and positionalities.