Learning to Love the Spaces in Between by Claire Gillman

Author:Claire Gillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781801291156
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Kindred Spirit magazine columnist and feature writer David Olliff has a first-class honours degree in Theology and describes himself as “Christian but not religious. I think I’ve become a sort of Christian occultist really. I’m a follower of Dion Fortune [a proponent of Christian mysticism].” During my time as his editor, I always knew I could rely on him for informative and thought-provoking articles on classic spiritual texts, among other things, so I turned to him to see if he could shed any light on what it means in this day and age to be spiritual.

“Spirituality is a very difficult space to talk about,” he says. An inauspicious start, but Olliff was just warming to his subject. He continued, “It seems to me that people use spirituality as a way of developing on that journey to becoming their best selves. There is an inherent psychology built into that, but there is also a sense of a relationship to an Other. I think that’s what the struggle of spirituality is – the relationship of the interior self in relation to the divine, which is other but also not other. That’s one of the great problems of the liminal space you’re talking about. We create this sense that there is maybe a God out there, but I feel it’s more a sense of a God within, that is also out there, but there isn’t a clear otherness.

“Liminal spaces are so difficult because it is our interiority, the interior itself, in relation to our experiences that are exterior and other. There is a microcosm and a macrocosm; the microcosm being the infinite world within, and who we are as individuals, and then the macrocosm being the whole of the rest of that eternal space. As physical manifest beings, we understand ourselves in terms of physical limits, so we’re always at the boundary of something; we’re always at the liminal of something. There is a full, almost limitless world interior to us, and there is another world that we have to somehow negotiate and engage within. We are experiencing things permanently at the shore, at the threshold.”

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