by 4Tcarson | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Of Beginnings and Ends — a novel of liminal passages by S. K. Kruse (Deuxmers, September 2026) A Soul-Making Keats Literary Award–Winner Paperback ISBN 978-1-944521-26-4 · $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-944521-58-5 · $27 Ebook ISBN 978-1-944521-27-1 · $8.99 258 pages ·...
by 4Tcarson | Jul 25, 2026 | College, Uncategorized
In today’s world, those who borrow on the insights and concepts of liminality and apply them to their own fields and disciplines have found whole new vistas opening. Applied Liminality is a sub-field of liminal studies in which the most practical of engagements...
by 4Tcarson | Jun 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
William James was a pioneer in the field of the psychology of religion and is most known for his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. The book is a compilation of his Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 1901, an event that rocked the religious, psychological and...
by 4Tcarson | Jun 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am already many pages into one of my summer reads, Michael Pollan’s A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness (Penguin, 2026). For the past five years Pollan has surfed through consciousness studies and dared go where few materialists will – into the...
by 4Tcarson | Apr 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I saw Terry Tempest Williams live at the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri I knew I had to pick up a copy of her new book, The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (Grove Press, 2026), and so I did. Tucked among her sightings was a “Black...
by 4Tcarson | Jan 30, 2026 | College
This guest blog is contributed by Abbie Roth, an Honors student at the University of Missouri. She is currently enrolled in the Honors Seminar “Liminality and Imagination.” Liquify In the spirit of liminality, I’ll begin with an ending. It’s my birthday...
by 4Tcarson | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Dramatic moments of social disruption and violence often precipitate a state of social liminality, a shared sense of confusion and disorientation resulting from the sudden disappearance of norms, boundaries, and safety. In recent times federally authorized militias...
by 4Tcarson | Dec 8, 2025 | Resources Page Blog
Who doesn’t need additional and fresh resources to add to the liminal quiver? For liminal bibliography, filmography, TED talks, tutorials, and educational materials, go check out the Resources page! Find Liminal Resources...
by 4Tcarson | Jul 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
On July 1, my wife of thirty years, Kathy, came to the end of her journey. It was a longtime coming, as I suppose it is for all of us. But for her the journey included a life-threatening diagnosis and then treatment that continued for more than a dozen years. She...
by 4Tcarson | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Alec Frydman was a young man in search of himself, and that journey led him from prep school to surfer dude to a commercial fishing boat. Unfortunately for Alec, his maiden voyage led right into a storm, a turbulence that sank the ship and killed the captain, leaving...
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