ABSTRACT
In liminal states we taste a deeper level of awareness beyond the rational, analytical, and image-making mind, sometimes even tasting the deepest center of self that opens into the Absolute Mystery, that ground of our being where “God’s Spirit with her own Being is effective.” And it all begins in the honest, earthy, human desire for love, sex, communion, and self-transcendence. It all begins in that moment just before a small child opens the much-longed-for Christmas present. The ways we experience and embody our deepest longings often look very different from the ways sanctioned by a heterosexist culture, and consequently our path of transformation will look very different. In the maturity of the spiritual life, the sexual life, the human life, there is a peace and a surrender that is a, abiding passion which runs gentle and deep. We must pay close attention, then, to our liminal experiences: sexual desire, orgasms, loving communion, and spiritual life.
