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These thresholds are initiatory. They are transformative. Full of bendings, turnings and reversals; where inner-meets-outer like a Möbius strip, an intermediary tidal zone of death and resurrection, morphological transfiguration. Fish-becoming-amphibian.

Jeremy D Johnson • "Three Theses on Liminality"

unnameable — a shape-shifting thing that can’t be categorized or reliably identified, OR, something so horrific that you don’t want to give it a name because a name gives it a hook to lodge itself into your mind.
transcendence — the act of “escaping inclusion within"; to surpass, climb over, go beyond, surmount, overstep; to molt, to escape a

beginnings always hide themselves in ends

The Other.

Enchantment.

Awe.

Invasion of the Exterior.

Transcendance.

Transformation.

transitional beings—

Pema Chodron • Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change

endings are

William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes

of these practices to another.

Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death

“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”

-Octavia Butler

Often when something is ending we discover within it the spore of new beginning, and a whole new train of possibility is in motion before we even realize it.

When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning, unforeseen things can emerge.