Sarah Ritter Image and Pilgrimage #1

            I think it was interesting how in this book, the author Arnold Van Gennep breaks down the process of going through a rite of passage into three specific steps that are always followed and always in the same order in every rite of passage.  The first step in every rite of passage is separation in which the individual breaks away and becomes isolated from their culture. The next step is limen where the individual enters an entirely new realm, and the final step is aggregation when the individual returns to the world that they previously had detached from but enter it now as a more spiritually mature individual.