46: Dr Tim Carson: This is Your Brain on Liminality

Jan 31, 2024

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Has deconstruction left you feeling isolated, anxious, and alone? Dr Tim Carson and I talk about the liminality of deconstruction, and how we are in a large collective “we” space of deconstruction, and the desperate need for liminal guides today. We also talk about the neurology of liminality and why it is so transformative.

Timothy Carson is the curator of The Liminality Project. And has done Doctoral research and dissertation on Liminality. Tim is also the author of Liminal Reality and Transformational Power (2016), editor of the anthology Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality (2019), co-author of Crossing Thresholds: A Practical Theology of Liminality (2021), editor of the anthology The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope (2022), and editor of Leaning into the Liminal: A Guide for Counselors and Companions (2024). Tim continues to write, edit, blog, facilitate groups and seminars focused on liminality, and work with people making life’s great passages. Tim teaches a variety of liminality courses in the Honors College of the University of Missouri and is a TEDx speaker, presenting on themes of liminality.

You can find Tim’s work here: https://www.theliminalityproject.org/
You can view Tim’s TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLaTOyVBdME

Time Stamps for the episode:
02:43 The Tim and Tom Show
06:15 Liminal conversations around the world
10:33 Liminality and Pastoring
16:04 Liminality in Academia
19:21 Liminality in the Church
23:58 This is your brain on Liminality
29:12 Liminal competency in our leaders
34:48 Liminal journey to rebirth the “me” and “we”
39:45 COVID 19 and collective Liminality
44:43 Training Liminal guides in Ukraine
50:23 Liminal space of deconstruction
56:05 Conclusions

All Music for this episode is provided by Axeltree

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