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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Betwixt And Between
Description: Dave Brisbin 9.1.24
Think of this election as the extension of a collective rite of passage into which we were plunged with the pandemic.
A rite of passage is a three-part experience that grows us from one stage of human development to another. Being separated, by life event or ritual, from the world we knew; thrown into a difficult, even traumatizing transition; reincorporated back into community with new perspective is exactly what we’re facing together.
Rites of passage only “work” when we allow the middle transition part to take us liminal—the space between no longer and not yet, the willingn...