Celtic wisewomen used to describe the liminal space between what we now call 'conscious', 'unconscious', and 'superconscious' knowledge as 'walking between the worlds'. They likened it to having one foot in the water and one foot on land. Too far "out to sea", and one was simply mad, and of no use to anyone, while "on dry land" is the realm of the status quo. In order to bring in the treasures of the unknown 'out there' into manifestation for the betterment of the community, one has to be in balance, with a foot in both worlds. You have to be able to be imagining far reaching solutions and receiving wild flashes of insight while also peeling the potatoes. Many people don't deal well with this overt evidence of their actual lack of "control" over not only the world, but their own minds. In their effort to control the wilderness of their consciousness, they either invent monsters- or become them- or else they resort to folly. When I began working on this series, I was calling it 'the Wyrd" series, but this morning I woke up realizing that most of the work has been done around the monsters and the follies that come out of the inability to cope with our internal landscapes.