As the summer rolls along and I spend time gathering with others I have reflected on how good it feels.
It conjures up thoughts from a book by anthropologist Victor Turner discussing the value of communitas.
Here’s a definition: Communitas is a Latin noun that means “community” and can refer to a feeling of shared humanity, intimacy, and solidarity that develops among people who experience liminality as a group.
And another definition: Liminality is a state of being in between two stages or places, or on the verge of transitioning to something new.
That is a particularly potent concept now on a macro level and always has value on the micro level.
Turner is an anthropologist and writes about the experience of discomfort within a current state/way of being as well as need for a liminal space to generate new ways of thinking of being.
In the liminal state, we are stripped of our normal societal roles and distinctions and enter a fluid realm. The liminal state is pregnant with possibilities.
He writes of liminality as the key to cultural creativity and change.
Historically humans have prioritized community and experienced transformative opportunities through ritual and rites of passage. We have evolved a progress driven society directed by the ego. We have lost the ease of gathering in community and our connection to ritual and rites of passage.
I love the idea of gathering as a collective to heal and to celebrate and findings ways that make it both practical and spiritual.
At Home-LA we offer small group ketamine journeys to explore this fertile space, to reimagine, contemplate and explore new ways of being in the world.
If you feel called please join us for a small group experiential to envision and optimize. Signing off with a prayer to new possibilities filled with curiosity, compassion and love. XO Eva