Ave, Charles!

Back from his yearly American Folklore Society conference, Charles reflects on liminality and two students who had accompanied him to the conference. 

I think Charles would dig both Hinduism and Taoism, both of which deal with process and transformation. Charles contends that a liminal space is one in which a change occurs, and in both of the traditions I mentioned, change is fundamental to how the universe works. In Hinduism, the passing from moment to moment is often visualized as a constant destruction and creation—endings and beginnings. In Taoism, there is no conceptual separation of being from notions of process or flow: being is process and flow. I don't know whether what I'm expressing maps neatly onto what Charles is saying; I suspect he sees liminality in terms of the interstitial state between two distinct states, but if you slice all moments in time thinly enough, even those distinct states will look like a Taoist flow or a Hindu procession of endings and beginnings. 

I don't know. I'm probably talking out of my ass, but I still think Charles might find these traditions interesting for what they have to say about change. I should research some scriptures and put up some juicy quotes.