In Turner's book, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, we learned about communitas. Communitas refers to an unstructured community in which people are equal, without status based on wealth or title. It is a form of solid togetherness and this feeling usually happens on a hike. People meet on the trail from all over the world and there is a feeling of helpfulness and family that everyone shares. I've briefly run into this feeling when I "hiked" skyline drive. It was only for a day, but we stopped at numerous points in the trail and other people around the mountains would relax with us for a time and it was just a very relaxing feeling. It's nice when there is a feeling of equality among everyone.
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