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 the community. Turner says that liminality and the phenomena of liminality dissolve all factual and common-sense systems into their components and “play” with them in ways never found in nature or in custom, at least at the level of direct perception.
This is the secret to transforming self and community. Indeed, it is even the key to re-connecting to the ecosystems with which we have evolved, and to remaking the human landscape into a cooperative economy.
Be a conscious ritualer. Be qualiadelic!