Erin King- Image and Pilgramage in Christian Culture

One of the concepts discussed in Turners book is Limminality. Liminality is a state of being that is between worlds. For example, standing in a door way is a stage of liminality because you are not in the classroom, yet you are not in the hallway. This idea of a liminal stage is apart of the process of growth and a sort of right of passage. There are four stages in this right of passage. First, separation from one world followed by liminality. In this stage of passage is where communitas exists. Communitas are the spontaneous, random bonds that form in the liminal stage. The next phase in the right of passage is that of transformation followed by re-aggregation. Re-aggregation is the joining back into the world, but joining as different and changed person than before. Liminality is one of the most vital stages in the right of passage. It is that on the fence stage that a person can go two or more different directions."Being in a liminal stage/place in life gives you the ability to experience a deeper level of existence or life or the 'pulse of life'". Liminality gives a person the freedom to choose what they want out of life and not be forced to be in the class room or the hall way, but stand in the door way until the right path for them to take becomes clear. In my own life, as apart of my spiritual experience I went to a retreat for a weekend into the woods and was told to find a place that we could think about the deeper meaning of life than the surface materialistic world along with other activities that were challenging. This was a time of liminality for me, and I could relate Turner's words with my own life quite easily to this experience.