Rites of Passage- Katie Randazzo

In Image and Pilgrimage, the aggregation phase of rites of passages was very interesting to me. Here, the pilgrim is back into the world in which they have previously come from before their pilgrimage, submerged in their culture. I think of how much a pilgrim changes on a pilgrimage, that they have undergone so much spiritual, physical, and emotional change. All this change is extremely hard when reentering a space in which they were formerly not changed. Connecting that to the Appalachian trail movie we watched in class, I thought about the aggregation phase every time the individuals reached a trail town. Personally, I have spent long periods of time in the wilderness and even going into town for a break or a meal causes stress and anxiety after being out of the mainstream for a long time. When entering the marketplace after being in the wilderness for a while, how would you deal with any stress from the aggregation phase? Do you think that it would be a problem for you to adapt after aggregation phase or would you be able to cope?