liminal
In my way of thinking, radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant. These don’t always surface in awareness to the point one is actually choosing -- often they live in a cloud of aversion that strategically obscures the tradeoff.
Cate Hall • How to be More Agentic
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
Then, when the opposing warriors rode down on them, these beings “turned sideways into the light” and disappeared.2 Legend says that they entered into the cracks between the visible and invisible worlds, where it is thought that they still reside, in what is called the land of faery.
Sally Kempton • Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
We must note that the resurrected body of Christ is not the same as before. He appears, but is not easily recognized. He can pass through walls, manifest and vanish. This is deeply symbolic:
The new body is a symbol of a transfigured psyche: no longer defined by the rigidity of the ego nor by the boundaries of the old personality. Consciousness has... See more
The new body is a symbol of a transfigured psyche: no longer defined by the rigidity of the ego nor by the boundaries of the old personality. Consciousness has... See more
Juan Duran • The Symbolic Treasure Behind Holy Week (Part III)
Knowledge and understanding advance through anomalies, not confirmations. It is the “white crows” and “black swans” that push science forwards.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
The collective minds of all observing creatures collapse the various wave functions into a seemingly physical and material world. But this world is malleable. I would like to call this reality the Sensereal Realm. It is a domain that has its own borderlands, places where the inhabitants of the Pleroma can break through into the Kenoma. This
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
The central theme developed in this book is that psi, the paranormal, and the supernatural are fundamentally linked to destructur-ing, change, transition, disorder, marginality, the ephemeral, fluidity, ambiguity, and blurring of boundaries. In contrast, the phenomena are repressed or excluded with order, structure, routine, stasis, regularity,
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
Victor Turner studied the role of ritual in indigenous societies, particularly rites of passage. Those rites signaled periods of transition, as between childhood and adulthood. They were dangerous periods during which previous statuses and relationships were suspended. The “structure” of society was eliminated temporarily, and those periods are
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
There is a pattern, and generally the phenomena either provoke or accompany some kind of destructuring—a concept discussed at length in this book. For instance, the phenomena do not flourish within stable institutions, and endless examples illustrate this. Fortunately, two theoretical perspectives are already developed that connect the supernatural
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
“liminality and anti-structure”