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 🙂