Liminality

Liminality

11/22/15

(Image and Pilgrimage)

I must admit I found Image and Pilgrimage the most difficult of our textbooks. I do not have much experience with studying philosophy, so many terms were not easily understood at first (or second, or even third...) reading. 

I would like to expand upon the idea of "liminality" in hopes that writing and articulating the idea will help me to better understand it. 

Upon studying liminality further, I learned that the word is derived for the Latin root, "limen," which means "threshold." It is a voluntary state of being. Liminality is not some obligatory "social mechanism" to mark one's significant transition from one state or status to another. Rather, it is one choosing to put himself in this state.