Liminality
Referenced in 2 episodes
Definition
From the Latin 'limen,' meaning threshold. It is the in-between middle stage of a rite of passage, when a person has left their old identity but not yet taken on a new one, and where transformation is said to happen.
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Mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade argues that humanity is not facing the end of the world but the end of an era, a collective rite of passage he compares to the Hindu Kali Yuga and to a caterpillar dissolving inside its cocoon. Drawing on initiation rituals, ancient myth and his own months in military solitary confinement after refusing to fight in Vietnam, he says real transformation requires a change of heart, a reconnection with the soul and the guidance of genuine elders. Host Cliff Dunning also shares claims from Guatemalan Maya elders that there were once 260,000 ceremonial centers, and Meade warns that artificial intelligence reflects a loss of soul.
When a UFO Lifted Her Car w/ Zelia Edgar
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In November 1967, Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt were driving near Winchester, England, when their car was seemingly lifted off the road and set down beside a hovering cigar-shaped craft, from which a silver-suited, pink-eyed being emerged to peer in at them. A second encounter weeks later allegedly placed both witnesses and the car inside a strange room with communicating entities before they reappeared beside an unfamiliar river. Host Zelia Edgar explores how Joyce's lifelong history of poltergeists and apparitions complicates the case, raising the question of whether a haunted person can draw or even project high strangeness.
