Volume II • Issue 2 • Winter 2017

Liminal Spaces & Altered States

Our third issue’s dual theme has many dimensions to explore, ranging from the inherently embodied aspects of transitions and migrations to the more subtle mental and emotional shifts of spiritual and initiatory journeys.

We so clearly live in what Charles Eisenstein, among others, calls ‘a time of global initiation.’ The gendered tropes of Mother Earth and Father Time are collapsing into a singular and unifying cry to take up our role as stewards and accomplices of and with the land, water, air, and each other.

Being in the potential chrysalis of that call can be both exhilarating and terrifying. To be poised at a threshold while facing the realities of the world is a necessarily heart-rending process. Yet that process is the very embodiment of our work: forging a crucible for grief and rage so they, and we, might transmute.

Experiences of the liminal vary greatly: they may be sacred or profane, deeply personal or highly objective. In this issue, we begin touching the surface of how the liminal relates to contemporary (and traditional) rites of passage and what might be gleaned in the process.

Come join us in the confluence!