Liminal spaces

Being unable/unwilling to get out of bed this morning(due to :February blues / being gazzumped on a rental property/tired after two days of intensive print workshops/generally wondering what its all about and why I am doing IT) I dicovered that for once and maybe once only my laptop has enough connection for me to connect to the INTERNET and remain in bed ..so started to look at my blog and reconsider where I am and where I am going .
I re-read Morgans comments on the postcards initially the comments about liminal spaces and looked at a diary project (thanks Lizzie for this )
http://diary-project.blogspot.com ) by a Bristol based artist reminiscent of my postcards.She has over the past year each day drawn on envelopes filled them with something relevant to that dayds events and then posted them back to herself with a view to exhibiting the who;e co;;ection and inviting members of the public to open them.
http://kirstyhall.co.uk/workinprogress.I find my postcards building up to provide not only a visual but also written record of my progression through the MA and my time in Cornwall and perhaps there is some milage in developing/integrating these into my windows work . Windows another liminal space .
Re-engendering the phrase liminal spaces in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I discovered the work of

Jean Houston, Ph.D. (born 10 May 1937) who has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of spirituality and ritual processes. A prolific author of books, she is one of the founders of the Human Potential Movement. Her PBS Special A Passion for the Possible has been widely viewed.
Houston was perhaps formerly best known for her involvement with Margaret Mead during Mead's final years but she may be most widely known for urging First Lady Hillary Clinton to carry on imaginary conversations with Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in which Mrs. Clinton had to supply both sides of the conversation (discussed below). As this example suggests, Dr. Houston is a spiritual guide who has worked to develop ritual processes.
Much of Houston's work in spirituality centers on creating fresh ritual processes, albeit ones deeply indebted to ancient ritual processes. She styles her work in this crucial area the Mystery School, because it is still something of a mystery as to how ritual processes enable people to engender their human potentials. Many people today can be styled ritually challenged. Apart from singing the national anthem together occasionally, most of our lives are not ritually rich. As a result, much work remains to be done to develop meaningful ritual processes for world culture today, so that we can perhaps engender the deeper resources of the human psyche in our efforts to actuate our human potential and thereby grow into more fully actuated persons. Houston has devoted her adult life to this work.

My daily ritual being my 10minutes to half an hour meditation usually mindfulness of breathing having read a part of an inspiring text . Initially this was Robert MacFarlanes "The Wild Places " and more recently Pema Chodren's books "Uncomfortable with Uncertainty" and "Start where you are " which puts me in touch with my state of mind and may give me insights about where to go next with my work .

The definition of liminal
"Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold"[1]) is the quality of the second stage of a ritual in the theories of Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, and others. In these theories, a ritual, especially a rite of passage, involves some change to the participants, especially their social status.[2]
The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed - a situation which can lead to new perspectives.
(A good description of the MA proces and the process of moving to a new place where noone knows you and where your world is filled with the unfamiliar.)
People, places, or things may not complete a transition, or a transition between two states may not be fully possible. Those who remain in a state between two other states may become permanently liminal."

Liminality in time
Twilight serves as a liminal time, between day and night. The name of the television fiction series The Twilight Zone makes reference to this, describing it as "the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition" in one variant of the original series' opening. The time of day that we experience more in winter as it falls whilst we are still active .The sillouettes of trees at this time of day are to me exquisite as are the physical/mental/spiritual benefits of walking through woodland , and so to woodland .

The Wood between the Worlds is a 'linking room' location in The Magician's Nephew, part of The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis.It is first so named by Polly Plummer, who arrives there when Digory Kirke's Uncle Andrew tricks her into putting on a magic ring, which instantaneously transports her into the wood. She falls asleep, and when Digory arrives later the children are both disoriented and at first they aren’t sure how long they have been there or even who they are. This state of lassitude that both children fall into is explained as the result of the Wood being a place where nothing ever happens, unlike the different worlds it connects (where events do occur).The wood is implied to be a place linking all worlds.

"The Tibetan word Bardo means literally "intermediate state" - also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or liminal state"". In Sanskrit the concept has the name antarabhāva.
Fremantle (2001) states that there are six traditional bardo states known as the Six Bardos: the Bardo of This Life (p.55); the Bardo of Meditation (p.58); the Bardo of Dream (p.62); the Bardo of Dying (p.64); the Bardo of Dharmata (p.65); and the Bardo of Existence (p.66).
Shugchang, et. al. (2000: p.5) discuss the Zhitro (Tibetan: Zhi-khro) teachings which subsume the Bardo Thodol and mention Karma Lingpa, terma and Padmasambhava and list the Six Bardo:
In the terma discovered by Karma Lingpa, Guru Padmasambhava introduces six different bardos. The first bardo begins when we take birth and endures as long as we live. The second is the bardo of dreams. The third is the bardo of concentration or meditation. The fourth occurs at the moment of death. The fifth is known as the bardo of the luminosity of the true nature. The sixth is called the bardo of transmigration or karmic becoming"

This has also led me to looking for this film , Dalai Lama Renaissance.

Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich with the Dalai Lama in India during filming of the "Dalai Lama Renaissance" documentary.
Dalai Lama Renaissance is a 2-hour feature documentary film, narrated by actor Harrison Ford and produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, to be released in the Summer of 2007, about the Dalai Lama's meeting with Western "renaissance" thinkers at his home in Dharamsala, India, about changing the world and resolving many of the world's problems.
These Western thinkers who meet the Dalai Lama include: quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (from the documentaries What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret), social scientist Jean Houston, and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center church in Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Beckwith.
The film includes original music by Tibetan musicians, as well as master sitarist Roop Verma, who studied under Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan.
This is the first feature film about the Dalai Lama released for many years.