The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) by Victor Witter Turner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Somehow I think it would have been much more fun to be in a graduate seminar at the University of Chicago with Professor Turner or even a bar on the South Side listening to the Blues applying all that knowledge, insight and creativity. I have heard some good stories. This book is definitely for the anthropology minded. But the liminal mind as accessed through ritual whether African, Episcopalian (and now I guess we have both joined being the African Episcopalians are a major force in that branch of the universe) Tibetan or Zen.  We offer light, incense, fruit, sweet tea and our consciousness to pass through that threshold, that gateway which even Heidegger talks about and probably stumbled through as far as I can gather from his later mutterings.  Be careful oh scientist, philosopher, your methodology cannot protect you. There is no working condom for life.


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