Amy Barnes: #3 Image and Pilgrimage

Communitas happens on a pilgrimage when a group of people experience liminality, a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective, conscious state of being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes. (Essentially people that something sacred such as a glimpse of divinity together.) It takes community to the next level and allows the community to share a common experience, usually through a rite of passage. It brings everyone onto an equal level and even if you are in a higher position, you know what it is like to be lower. A communitas shares a sacred experience and gives all involve instantly something in common which is what human beings strive for as an essential need of belonging.