Research help: transient-ness and spirituality

[Kristofski]

Hey guys! I've not had a chance to be on the boards much recently, been very busy with this real life thing. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with some reserach I'm doing, I'm trying to find out about traditions/cultures etc that spiritually revere and/or use the idea of transient spaces, states of mind and people. By transient I mean not fixed, not defined, transgressing various states, a place that is passed through rather than stayed in etc. I know it's kind of vauge, I guess that's why I've had trouble finding information about it!
Anything anyone can send my way would be muchly appreciated.
Laters!
Kristofski xx

[SpiritTalker]

Carlo Ginsburg Night Battles
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests.

They’d’ve been in a transient-state.

[Firebird]

At first I was thinking the guy meant folks who don't have a home.
Not sure I get what their talking about, probably why no one answered in 14 years, lol.
My mind is nearly always in a transient state!