Liminal States Host Bill Clarke and guest George A Wade

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Tonight's episode is on liminal space. 

It's 9 p. m. You stayed late after everybody had left work. You take the elevator down to the parking deck where you parked your car in the morning but you don't remember where you parked the car. So you use the keyfab twice.  No beeps.  You try twice. Once again, still no sound.  Then you walk over to the guard booth and there is no one there.

You start to panic. You panic.  Then you hear someone around the bend, one flight up, talking on their cell phone, walking to their car. Just then, you remember,  you are on the wrong floor.  So you take the stairs. This time, when you reach the floor  above, you spot your red Toyota, just where you left it.  Well. 

Until you find your car, the beautiful red Toyota, you were in liminal space.  Liminal space can be best described as going through a change or going from one place to another, from one thing to the next, says transition expert, Melissa Cohen, a licensed clinical social worker in New York and founder of the mental wellness website, a redefine you. 

It's the space between what is and what will happen next, she says. In other words, she says, liminal space refers to the actual space or time in which you shift from one phase to another. What's interesting about this concept is not only does everyone experience it at some point in their lives, but some people also tolerate it better than others, she says.

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