Meta (μετα): over, across, with, between, beyond.

Metaxy (μεταξύ): philosopher Eric Voegelin described the metaxy as an ontological space, a dwelling in-between two modes of being.

Axial: of or relating to an axis (a center line, often mediating a turning or rotating motion). Karl Jaspers’ notion of the Axial Age (ca. 800-200 BCE) suggests a historical turning point marked by a transformation in consciousness with intertwining ramifications in cosmology, religion, civilization, and the very structure of thought. A growing number of contemporary thinkers suggest that we, today, may find ourselves amid a Second Axial Age, a historical turning point of comparable significance effecting equally radical transformations.

Reverie: a pleasant state of being lost in thought; a waking dream; an instrumental piece evoking a dreamlike or musing state; a fanciful or impractical idea or theory. From the French rever: “be delirious.”