Liminality has completely altered how I view myself and the world around me.
Well, what is liminality?
I don't know how to define it in a concise manner.
It's like trying to define exactly who you are in words.
It isn't really possible.
So what are we really talking about here then?
Well, just because we can't define it in words doesn't mean that we can't understand it.
The deepest truth that we can know as human beings is felt, not said.
You know i can't define you.
Does that mean i don't feel, you smell you, experience you?
Liminality has a similar nature.
It has a certain aroma to it, and by aroma i don't mean this literally.
I mean it has an intangible nature to it that is unmistakably identifiable as a feeling or essence.
It sounds kind of like identity, doesn't it?
You see, I'm drawing many connections to liminality and identity, and that's because I had to learn how to understand its nature in terms of feeling rather than words.
We're always told to introduce ourselves by way of name, age, and occupation.
But who you really are, your true nature, is better felt.
If you were to ask me who I am, I might make you listen to a song, because that vibration, those frequencies would instill a feeling within you that would far better help you understand the answer to that question than just words.
And so, the same way, a child calms down by matching its mother's breathing, I began matching my criteria for how I understood myself and the things around me to the criteria for which I was forced to understand liminality.
I flew all the way to London just to be able to be here and see this liminal space for myself.
And the fact that it's real and it's one of the very ones that I spent countless hours staring at through a computer screen makes it that much more significant.
But I'm going to be honest.
Part of me was really fearful that it would just be boring, that it wouldn't live up to the expectation, that it wouldn't feel the same in real life as it did from my room.
Because I think part of the allure is that it's it's distant.
You know.
It seems like uh, an alternate reality in some sort of way, but i'm happy to say that it wasn't.
It wasn't boring and i didn't get over it quickly.
In fact, every time that i go see it i feel the same way and it's just this internal stillness and alignment and peace, because what being in a liminal space forces you to do is put yourself into alignment with your environment.
And what is the energy of a liminal space?
Well, it's calm, it's grounded, it feels safe.
And so calmness and alignment within this environment means you're aligned with those traits or those characteristics of the space.
Does this look familiar?
I'm back at home base now after 30 days of travel, so I'm glad to be back and re-energize and rejuvenate.
I know this video is about liminal spaces, liminality in specific, but something I really want to stress in a more general sense is the importance of having something to be obsessed about.
I think that's really where you start to.
When you're obsessed with something, you discover so much about yourself and the life that you're living, the story that you're creating, because that's where you find depth.
You know when you really care about something, when you dedicate your life to something, when you think breathe, eat and sleep revolving around one thing just complete obsession.
You know, for example, Nikola Tesla's obsession was energy frequency and vibration.
Maybe yours is film or some nuance about filmmaking that you are just utterly obsessed with.
You know, it could really be anything.
Regardless, it's an interesting story.
And no matter what your beliefs are, I think you'd want your life to be interesting, a story worth retelling.
And so to create a life for yourself that resembles that, that of a story that contains everything laughter sadness, lost and being found, romance and heartbreak, putting something on the line triumph risk stress, comfort all of it just thrown into one in this beautiful, unfolding masterpiece a story.
In order to live a life like that, you need to care a lot, you need to be obsessed with something or someone, something that you're willing to put something on the line for, put everything on the line for, and whether it's a success or a failure isn't really what makes it a great story.
It's observing someone's willingness to put everything on the line for something outside of themselves.
The real magic that this does for you in your own individual life, as you pursue whatever it is you're obsessed with, or you're willing to put something everything on the line for, is that it doesn't get rid of the weight that you must bear along that journey.
But at least it gives you a reason to bear it.
Obviously, my obsession is liminality.
And these are the early stages of me really diving deeper into this obsession that I have with it.
I'm going to continue to study liminality.
I'm going to continue to immerse myself within liminal spaces like you see me do in this video.
I'm going to continue to expand on my vision for the real life liminal space that I wish to create.
I'm going to continue to teach the people that I work with in my mentorship program about liminality and how they can incorporate it into their lives.
I'm just going to continue to push the envelope on something that is in such early stages, even culturally.
And I just know that it's going to become something that is not just an internet aesthetic or a niche fandom type of thing.
There's something about this here that I can't quite yet put into words, that is deeply impactful for the individual, for identity, for the internal world.
But I'm extremely excited for the day that I don't have to put it into words, that I don't have to explain.
It's just felt by people who experience it for themselves.
I really just want to be the person that helps others experience it for themselves.
Anyways, I appreciate your time and I will see you soon.
