thread on masks & their transformative power https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1281429419861704711
1/ “In the realm of the spirit world, the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly transformative. The man in the mask (...) may speak in a different voice, move differently, behave differently, because he is a different being...”
1/ “In the realm of the spirit world, the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly transformative. The man in the mask (...) may speak in a different voice, move differently, behave differently, because he is a different being...”
1/ “In the realm of the spirit world, the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly transformative. The man in the mask (...) may speak in a different voice, move differently, behave differently, because he is a different being...”
1/ “In the realm of the spirit world, the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly transformative. The man in the mask (...) may speak in a different voice, move differently, behave differently, because he is a different being...”
1/ “In the realm of the spirit world, the mask is more than mere facade. It is utterly transformative. The man in the mask (...) may speak in a different voice, move differently, behave differently, because he is a different being...”
2/ “The mask is put on. The line between reality and illusion, god and man, life and death, blurs. The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes the role.

-Cathy Newman, ‘Tangible Spirits’
2/ “The mask is put on. The line between reality and illusion, god and man, life and death, blurs. The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes the role.-Cathy Newman, ‘Tangible Spirits’
2/ “The mask is put on. The line between reality and illusion, god and man, life and death, blurs. The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes the role.-Cathy Newman, ‘Tangible Spirits’
2/ “The mask is put on. The line between reality and illusion, god and man, life and death, blurs. The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes the role.-Cathy Newman, ‘Tangible Spirits’
2/ “The mask is put on. The line between reality and illusion, god and man, life and death, blurs. The masked man is not playing a role. He becomes the role.-Cathy Newman, ‘Tangible Spirits’
3/ https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1281448344775262211
3/ https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1281448344775262211
3/ https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1281448344775262211
3/ https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1281448344775262211
3/ https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1281448344775262211
4/ Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco on the *structure of sacred time* that is actualized in masked rituals:

“Through these rites, participants find themselves connecting to the time of origin, a time that does not pass by, because it is an eternal present”
4/ Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco on the *structure of sacred time* that is actualized in masked rituals:“Through these rites, participants find themselves connecting to the time of origin, a time that does not pass by, because it is an eternal present”
4/ Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco on the *structure of sacred time* that is actualized in masked rituals:“Through these rites, participants find themselves connecting to the time of origin, a time that does not pass by, because it is an eternal present”
4/ Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco on the *structure of sacred time* that is actualized in masked rituals:“Through these rites, participants find themselves connecting to the time of origin, a time that does not pass by, because it is an eternal present”
4/ Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco on the *structure of sacred time* that is actualized in masked rituals:“Through these rites, participants find themselves connecting to the time of origin, a time that does not pass by, because it is an eternal present”
“The ritual garments are not, by any means, a folkloric remainder stripped of ritualistic meaning, but a door of true sacred access to another time, which can be retrieved indefinitely because it is accessed consistently, as a continuum, ever year”
“The ritual garments are not, by any means, a folkloric remainder stripped of ritualistic meaning, but a door of true sacred access to another time, which can be retrieved indefinitely because it is accessed consistently, as a continuum, ever year”
“The ritual garments are not, by any means, a folkloric remainder stripped of ritualistic meaning, but a door of true sacred access to another time, which can be retrieved indefinitely because it is accessed consistently, as a continuum, ever year”
“The ritual garments are not, by any means, a folkloric remainder stripped of ritualistic meaning, but a door of true sacred access to another time, which can be retrieved indefinitely because it is accessed consistently, as a continuum, ever year”
“The ritual garments are not, by any means, a folkloric remainder stripped of ritualistic meaning, but a door of true sacred access to another time, which can be retrieved indefinitely because it is accessed consistently, as a continuum, ever year”
5/ Chika Okeke-Agulu on masking in Africa:

“Contemporary masking inhabits a space in which faith in new religions combines with residual beliefs in indigenous metaphysics to produce ontological uncertainties”
5/ Chika Okeke-Agulu on masking in Africa:“Contemporary masking inhabits a space in which faith in new religions combines with residual beliefs in indigenous metaphysics to produce ontological uncertainties”
5/ Chika Okeke-Agulu on masking in Africa:“Contemporary masking inhabits a space in which faith in new religions combines with residual beliefs in indigenous metaphysics to produce ontological uncertainties”
5/ Chika Okeke-Agulu on masking in Africa:“Contemporary masking inhabits a space in which faith in new religions combines with residual beliefs in indigenous metaphysics to produce ontological uncertainties”
5/ Chika Okeke-Agulu on masking in Africa:“Contemporary masking inhabits a space in which faith in new religions combines with residual beliefs in indigenous metaphysics to produce ontological uncertainties”
“Masks are seen as embodied spirits & ancestral beings who return to the world of the living at specific occasions. They are part of the cosmological complex within which life exists as a continuous cycle, perpetually mediated by the action of deities, nature spirits, ancestors”
“Masks are seen as embodied spirits & ancestral beings who return to the world of the living at specific occasions. They are part of the cosmological complex within which life exists as a continuous cycle, perpetually mediated by the action of deities, nature spirits, ancestors”
“Masks are seen as embodied spirits & ancestral beings who return to the world of the living at specific occasions. They are part of the cosmological complex within which life exists as a continuous cycle, perpetually mediated by the action of deities, nature spirits, ancestors”
“Masks are seen as embodied spirits & ancestral beings who return to the world of the living at specific occasions. They are part of the cosmological complex within which life exists as a continuous cycle, perpetually mediated by the action of deities, nature spirits, ancestors”
“Masks are seen as embodied spirits & ancestral beings who return to the world of the living at specific occasions. They are part of the cosmological complex within which life exists as a continuous cycle, perpetually mediated by the action of deities, nature spirits, ancestors”
“Masking entails the donning of the physical mask, which equally implies the ritual transformation of carrier and mask into an ancestral or metaphysical being. When fully activated, masks become “spirits made tangible“”
“Masking entails the donning of the physical mask, which equally implies the ritual transformation of carrier and mask into an ancestral or metaphysical being. When fully activated, masks become “spirits made tangible“”
“Masking entails the donning of the physical mask, which equally implies the ritual transformation of carrier and mask into an ancestral or metaphysical being. When fully activated, masks become “spirits made tangible“”
“Masking entails the donning of the physical mask, which equally implies the ritual transformation of carrier and mask into an ancestral or metaphysical being. When fully activated, masks become “spirits made tangible“”
“Masking entails the donning of the physical mask, which equally implies the ritual transformation of carrier and mask into an ancestral or metaphysical being. When fully activated, masks become “spirits made tangible“”
6/ on the symbolic power of masks for unearthing one’s shadow https://twitter.com/harveykrishna_/status/1286455360509874179
7/ we must try on ALL masks, not just the ‘nice’ ones

because our true power, authenticity & goodness are often hidden away behind those masks that others unrightfully dare to call ugly, shameful, unacceptable, and so on

we must try on the dark masks,
we must become the devil https://twitter.com/AmbroseAndreano/status/1290376845129666561
8/ on the use of masks as vehicles for personal transformation in the Canadian Pochinko style of clown pedagogy: https://twitter.com/harveykrishna_/status/1299089082425974788
9/ Joseph Campbell on masks and becoming gods:

“The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it (...)
9/ Joseph Campbell on masks and becoming gods:“The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it (...)
9/ Joseph Campbell on masks and becoming gods:“The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it (...)
9/ Joseph Campbell on masks and becoming gods:“The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it (...)
9/ Joseph Campbell on masks and becoming gods:“The mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents-even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it (...)
(...) The one wearing [the mask], furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.”
(...) The one wearing [the mask], furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.”
(...) The one wearing [the mask], furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.”
(...) The one wearing [the mask], furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.”
(...) The one wearing [the mask], furthermore, is identified with the god during the time of the ritual of which the mask is a part. He does not merely represent the god; he is the god.”
10/ The mask as authentic self: https://twitter.com/blunderbussted/status/1350138503871475716
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