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“In the beginning… was a very female sea. For two-and-a-half-billion years on earth, all lifeforms floated in the womb-like environment planetary ocean–nourished and protected by its fluid chemicals rocked by the lunar-tidal rhythms.”
(Video) The Korean Shaman Ritual of the Dead
“Sitgimgut, the Jindo art of cleansing the soul of the dead” https://www.euronews.com/2016/04/21/sitgimgut-the-jindo-art-of-cleansing-the-soul-of-the-dead
Refractions by Cynthia Cook
camped on the frontier of my life, pregnant with the future I am comforted by you star fixed in my sky think of your courage a knife being born in your belly you fear a painful birth for the world does not yet contain the contours of our sharp new selves we had known this behind our minds for years when over coffee one quiet dawn we discussed the journeys that we must make each to create a world that can receive us thru new birth canals that will not strangle the erupting self, nor rupture the body in birth I have come past outposts warning not to forsake a history written in advance – into light that scrapes my eyes clear of learned cataracts seeking fresh eyes that can see new bone forming in flesh but never suspending my gravity for another’s, for tho clumsy with my weight, I must trust it always watching for those who thrust into the light at the same deep angle their refractions echoing in the well of the future forming constellations to chart our depth by Cynthia Cook, New York City (published in WOMANSPIRIT March 1980) Shared by Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D.
(Prose) Liminal Time and Space by Deanne Quarrie
The word liminal comes from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold.” The word threshold has several definitions. It can be the sill of a doorway or the entrance of a building. Ultimately, it means any place of point of entering or beginning. In psychology the term limen means the point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect. Liminal time therefore, is that moment when something changes from one state to another. Examples would be dawn, when the morning sun rises high enough in the sky to bring daylight. Another is dusk, when the evening sun sinks into the horizon bringing nightfall. Another is that moment when we move from a clearing into a deep fog which shrouds us in mist and for a moment, we stop all thinking. There is that moment when we first wake from a deep sleep, not fully awake but no longer asleep. Plus there is that state when we move from wakeful consciousness into sleep. The scientific terms for these states are hypnogogic (toward sleep) and hypnapompic (from sleep). There are also those moments of transitions between life and death and from an unborn fetus to a […]
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“in a Country of Pointed Firs” by Susan Abbott
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“Flood Water Moon” by Susan Abbott
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Watercolor by Susan Abbott