The Liminal Threshold Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:25:28 -0400 en-us © 2026 The Liminal Threshold yes 2fd45aa1-5073-5163-b99b-dad9b326ee40 b.iskra@yahoo.com Brett Iskra episodic false The Liminal Threshold is about transformation, but not the polished, marketable kind. Not the kind where a person pretends everything is fixed because they changed a few habits and found a better slogan. I am interested in the deeper work: the inner passage, the symbolic life, the hard-won meaning that comes from walking through uncertainty without turning back.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) psychology, addiction, initiation, writing, Brett Iskra b.iskra@yahoo.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/uamrw43s48s17bh8vmle4nj68nux?.jpg The Liminal Threshold Completing the Triangle: Initiation and the Story of Osiris Completing the Triangle: Initiation and the Story of Osiris In this episode of The Liminal Threshold, I complete the triangle of meaning, identity, and initiation through the story of Osiris.

Rather than exhaust the myth with interpretation, I want to let the story stand on its own and give it room to work. Osiris offers a powerful image of death, dismemberment, restoration, and transformation. These themes have echoed through religion, psychology, and the human experience for thousands of years.

This is a shorter episode by design. Listen to the story, sit with the images, and consider what initiation might mean when an old form of the self can no longer remain intact.

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> In this episode of The Liminal Threshold, I complete the triangle of meaning, identity, and initiation through the story of Osiris.

Rather than exhaust the myth with interpretation, I want to let the story stand on its own and give it room to work. Osiris offers a powerful image of death, dismemberment, restoration, and transformation. These themes have echoed through religion, psychology, and the human experience for thousands of years.

This is a shorter episode by design. Listen to the story, sit with the images, and consider what initiation might mean when an old form of the self can no longer remain intact.

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> Brett Iskra Buzzsprout-19616575 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0400 517 full false Identity: Who Are We Without the Roles We Play? Identity: Who Are We Without the Roles We Play?  Who are we when the roles, labels, habits, and expectations that once defined us begin to fall away? In this episode, I explore identity through recovery, psychology, and personal transformation. I look at the difference between the self we inherit, the self we perform, and the self we gradually choose. Recovery is not only about leaving substances behind. It can also mean confronting the roles that kept us trapped and discovering who remains when those roles no longer fit. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]>  Who are we when the roles, labels, habits, and expectations that once defined us begin to fall away? In this episode, I explore identity through recovery, psychology, and personal transformation. I look at the difference between the self we inherit, the self we perform, and the self we gradually choose. Recovery is not only about leaving substances behind. It can also mean confronting the roles that kept us trapped and discovering who remains when those roles no longer fit. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> Brett Iskra Buzzsprout-19585341 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400 1458 full false The First Leg: Meaning The First Leg: Meaning In this episode of The Liminal Threshold, I explore the first leg of my three-part framework: Meaning, Identity, and Initiation.

Drawing on Viktor Frankl, logotherapy, recovery, and my own experience, I examine the existential vacuum, the “craving beneath the craving,” and the ways meaning can emerge through creation, love, responsibility, and our attitude toward suffering that cannot be changed.

Recovery here means more than recovery from addiction. It can mean rebuilding after grief, illness, divorce, trauma, career loss, or the collapse of an identity that once organized our lives.

Meaning does not always arrive as a grand purpose. Sometimes it begins with the next response: write the page, attend the meeting, make the call, care for another living being, feed the dragon.

Meaning asks why. Identity asks who. Initiation asks how we cross from what we were into what we are becoming.

This episode begins with the first question. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> In this episode of The Liminal Threshold, I explore the first leg of my three-part framework: Meaning, Identity, and Initiation.

Drawing on Viktor Frankl, logotherapy, recovery, and my own experience, I examine the existential vacuum, the “craving beneath the craving,” and the ways meaning can emerge through creation, love, responsibility, and our attitude toward suffering that cannot be changed.

Recovery here means more than recovery from addiction. It can mean rebuilding after grief, illness, divorce, trauma, career loss, or the collapse of an identity that once organized our lives.

Meaning does not always arrive as a grand purpose. Sometimes it begins with the next response: write the page, attend the meeting, make the call, care for another living being, feed the dragon.

Meaning asks why. Identity asks who. Initiation asks how we cross from what we were into what we are becoming.

This episode begins with the first question. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> Brett Iskra Buzzsprout-19553089 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:00:00 -0400 1315 full false Introduction to The Liminal Threshold Introduction to The Liminal Threshold That is the territory of this podcast.
The Liminal Threshold is about transformation, but not the polished, marketable kind. Not the kind where a person pretends everything is fixed because they changed a few habits and found a better slogan. I am interested in the deeper work: the inner passage, the symbolic life, the hard-won meaning that comes from walking through uncertainty without turning back.

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

]]> That is the territory of this podcast.
The Liminal Threshold is about transformation, but not the polished, marketable kind. Not the kind where a person pretends everything is fixed because they changed a few habits and found a better slogan. I am interested in the deeper work: the inner passage, the symbolic life, the hard-won meaning that comes from walking through uncertainty without turning back.

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

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