Liminal Space for Alchemical Processes Is Marked by
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, creates a new perspective on the between by redefining the preposition as a noun.Mother Rain creates drought and flood at two extremes and nurtures all that grows.
The Winter Mother is the Snow Queen who tempts yet is cold.
Mother Light illuminates and burns.
Jungian Archetypes Embrace Liminal Space of The Between
Visionary psychologist Carl Jung wrote that maturity includes the ability to encompass truth as dualities.To achieve wholeness, we learn to embrace the extremes and the between.
Communication theorists discuss suggest inclusive dialogue is achieved by holding notions of both-end, even when the two ideas are discordant.
The between is that place in which there is no need to achieve reconciliation because the communicator accepts the both-and of life.
How to Find the Between
Catherine McCoun writes eloquently about alchemical transformation being achieved in the space of the between.She starts her explanation at the famous Platform 9¼ in the Harry Potter novels. The only way to board a train to Hogwarts Academy of magic is to run at what looks like a wall. At the last possible moment, the entry opens.
McCoun explains:
“Platform 9¼ is not located anywhere in the three spatial dimensions perceived by the physical senses. It exists in an alternative dimension, and that dimension can called ‘the between.’
“The between is not a midpoint. It’s not an average or a compromise. Those are abstractions we make up in our minds.
“The between has a life of its own, born of whatever is on either side of it. It’s a quality of relatedness and also a quality of potential. It is what differentiates random sounds from music. Between the notes of a song or symphony, there are spaces, silences. But these silences are not merely the absence of sound. The surrounding notes give the silence a distinct flavor” (p. 31).
The Between Is the Source of Creative Potentials that Transform
Electricity is a force that illustrates the power of the potential of the between. The force exists as a potential between two poles.Electricity lights our homes as energy flows between positive and negative electrons. Lightning rents the night sky in alchemical processes between air and earth, dramatically illustrating the between.
It is perhaps no accident of language that transformers are required to conduct electricity. Electricity is indeed a transformative force that changed life on Earth.
Fall Equinox Creates Liminal Space for Self Transformation
The Fall equinox, poised between the seasons and the centerpoint of night and day, is time to contemplate the between of our lives.Here we find the liminal space for alchemical processes that lead to spiritual and emotional wholeness.
How will you celebrate the season?
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