I've been thinking a lot this past semester (I'm in graduate school in religion, focus really is history though) about the human mind's insistence on catagorization. I've also read a lot about how the in-between states become religious catagories. Either sacred or demonic. Or when reflected on a human life it is handled by a rite of passage.
This has been something on my mind a lot lately too, though in a different sense than how you describe. I think modern society needs more rites of passage and more tolerance for ambiguity.
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Date: 2003-06-29 08:19 am (UTC)This has been something on my mind a lot lately too, though in a different sense than how you describe. I think modern society needs more rites of passage and more tolerance for ambiguity.