Remember that Hercules, Orpheus, Aeneas, Psyche, and our Odysseus all traveled into realms of the dead—and returned! Most mythologies include a descent into the underworld at some point. Jesus, as we said, also “descended into hell,” and only on the third day did he “ascend into heaven.” Most of life is lived, as it were, on the “first and second days,” the threshold days when transformation is happening but we do not know it yet. In men's work we call this liminal space.7
