Limbo: How Consciousness Expands

Take a look at this picture Imagine now, being stuck here, forever No matter where you move to, or how much you panic the world would just..stay the same How would you feel? What would be running through your mind? Purgatory - is what I think of A transitional state, a rite of passage, where individuals hang isolated as they move between stages of their journey Now take a look at this picture It's one I’m sure you’ve seen before The word liminal, comes from the Latin word limen, which means threshold It’s usually used to explain the feeling one gets during uncertain periods of time often, when moving from where you’ve been, to where you’re going I’ve heard many people refer to this in different contexts “The Lonely Period” “A rite of passage” Or “The beauty of dead worlds” And it’s usually applied to stages of life - for good reason But in the last few years, the term has taken on a new physical meaning Now used to describe pools, or staircases, or just empty spaces in general See, this resonates, because what all of the pictures I just showed you, have in common, is a feeling—a universal unsettlingness that makes one question. And what I want to understand, is why? I promise its an interesting question related to consciousness lol Research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344350558_Dreams_and_Psychology https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490500300106 https://www.verywellmind.com/the-impact-of-liminal-space-on-your-mental-health-5204371 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcU1o_6UyR8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwjHNCwUxVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1gzLAztK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbCsDuCKQh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky09fVAKEwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTiw47GzKVw&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BkbQMvxpYs https://archive.org/details/lovelysweetdream/File162.jpg https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2kg15mb.15 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119171492.wecad326 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331401030_Spaces_In-Between_Liminality https://anthropology.iresearchnet.com/rites-of-passage/ https://www.onlinescientificresearch.com/articles/consciousness-influences-epigenetics.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1668222 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30457048/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20synaptic%20plasticity%20which%20is%20a%20dysfunction%20reported,experiencing%20natural%20disasters%2C%20domestic%20violence%20or%20combat-related%20trauma. https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/abstract/2004/05000/negative_thoughts_and_health__associations_among.12.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3063335/ Music: Name: øneheart - this feeling Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVW1oWuMN4 Name: daniel.mp3 - green to blue Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02bFu73ez8 Name: Sid Acharya - Stories from the Sky Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWTGijqVwiA Clips: Kane Pixels, The Poolrooms, The Backrooms Timestamps 0:00 - The Feeling of Purgatory 1:13 - "The Rite of Passage" 3:16 - The Dangers of Psychological Limbo 5:28 - "Change" 6:43 - Moving Through "Hell" 8:24 - Increasing Conscious Awareness through Change