intersections.

ha, i was like who the hell is this elizajayne lady? i didn't realize it was Liz.

okay, so i handed in my thesis proposal tonight, and i also gave Megan a copy. she had a comment: she doesn't think that we have anything in common in our concepts. she reminded me that when you were at UMass i didn't get your work at all. i do now, of course, after getting to know you better and understanding all of it...i think it was the material aspect of your work that tripped me up (and may still trip me up).

so, we should figure out where we do intersect, where we complement each other and if it might work to our mutual advantage, and then lay it out so we have it in one place.

1. Liminality. obviously. for you, it is a spiritual state (?), for me, it is space/place. but still the same idea. power/freedom in the inbetween.

2. Mask/identity. not sure where this is for you...but masks for me connotate constume, a fluidity of identity, and in that fluidity, freedom. which leads back to the liminal.

other things i want to hear from you about:

Body

how you understand the body to be...i know there is a very deep Judeo-Christian tendency to see the body as a temporary vessel (i'm particularly interested in how the Puritans and Calvinism view it as a corrupt vessel), but i think there is a general tendency as well in all kinds of spiritual practice to see the physical body as temporary and transitory....does Vedic/Hindu beliefs line up with this idea, or is it totally different? i'd be curious to know.

(also, on an unrelated note, check out Calvinism sometime....i was doing some research on it over the break. kind of a mindfuck)