Victor Turner, a seminal theorist on the nature of ritual, described what he called the liminality of the performance. During the liminality of the performance, participants in a ritual are momentarily freed from the bonds of their socially constructed world. Liminality dissolves the cognitive structures determined by the traditions of theContinue Reading
When we reflect on them, the fragments from our lives are like quotes from a book, or phrases from a piece of music; they recall for us the spirit of something greater – the whole work or our entire life – which we can’t possibly keep in our mind allContinue Reading
Ecosystems are God. The gifts of ecosystems — Qualia — is the Holy Spirit. All living things — the children of ecosystems — sacrifice themselves to relieve the suffering of others. The Kingdom of Heaven is here on Earth. Happy Earth Day 🙂
Constellated (i.e., activated) unconscious contents are, so far as we know, always projected; that is, they are either discovered in external objects, or are said to exist outside one’s own psyche — Carl Jung Unconscious contents, for Jung, meant repressed conflicts, but why not merely crisis in general, either within or without anContinue Reading
We all know the platitude of success: if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Our ancestors died if they didn’t keep trying. Life was a continual crisis, and the probabilities were not often good in any endeavor. So, then, in such dire straits, such hopelessness, how didContinue Reading