Intense Liminality

The Shaman's Doorway

Spring dances among the still present drifts of high mountain snow and the bears paw through the forest startling my silent walks. I keep thinking about the Greek philosophers many references to Hekate, the great goddess of liminal spaces and incomparable originator of ideas. What is the studio, if not the space of liminality in all its manifestations with the ever present invitation to risk and intensity?

The 15th century poet-mystic Kabir wrote of intense living, risk taking, liminal space, 'jumping into the experience'. There is always risk with the jump and the 'plunge into the truth'.



TO BE A SLAVE OF INTENSITY

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think...and think...while you are alive.
What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?

The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten -
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will
have the face of satisfied desire.

So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
Believe in the Great Sound!

Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for, it is the
intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.
Look at me and you will see a slave of that intensity.