Crazy:  Unsound.  Unbalanced.  Cracked or flawed.  Insane.
Craze:  Crack, break, crackle or shatter.
Craze and crazy are words with origins in Middle English/Old Norse.  Crasen.  It means literally to crack, break or shatter.
Julia Cameron makes the statement in her book, The Artist's Way:  Going sane looks like going crazy.
You know the feeling.  You're trying to shatter the illusions, break down the walls, crack open the shell to find yourself and set yourself free.
Maybe you've been living in a glass jar or behind glass.  You could see out but didn't realize you were trapped inside or behind and were living life as an observer but not being able to feel or touch.
For a long time I have quoted the above saying, going sane looks like going crazy, but lately it just didn't feel right, didn't feel accurate somehow.  So I did what I always do, I asked the question, why?  
What does the word sane really mean?
It's origins are Latin, sanus, healthy.
Showing or having reason.
Sound judgment or good sense.
Free from mental derangement.
Sensible, practical, realistic, rational.
Level headed, balanced, NORMAL.
Wow and whoa.
With a list of words like that defining sane and sanity, my next question was, 
Do I really want to go sane?  
Aren't these the very things that create the illusions, the walls, the barriers, the glass that keep me from being my amazing, unique, irreverent self?
I WANT TO GO CRAZY SO I CAN GO REAL AND AUTHENTIC.  I DON'T WANT TO GO SANE!
What about you?

Ingrid the Rune Woman
Wise and Irreverent
Awaken Your Hunger
IngridKincaid.com

It's hard to imagine trying to use the same tool for everything.  A hammer is best suited for hammering and a garlic press doesn't do a good job of grating cheese.
The same principle holds true for the spiritual tools we use and for the beings we call upon to assist us in our daily, human activities.
This truth became quite evident recently in a reading I did for a woman. 

The rune that presented itself was Ac, rune of the mighty oaks, guardian trees of the Darkwood or Ironwood.  Ac showed me that there was a powerful, strong energy that was an obstacle standing in the way of what this woman was needing to accomplish.  Sometimes oaks are struck by lightening but this was one that literally needed to be cut down.
During the reading she wasn't quite sure who or what this tree might be but after a couple of days she contacted me and explained that she now understood who the oak was. 
I wrote back reminding her that oak is hard to cut and needed the invention of iron to accomplish the act.  I suggested she call upon the Forgers of Metal, the Duerger, also known as Dwarves or Swartalves.  They would assist her in creating something strong enough to use.
She replied that she had been using a screw driver to hammer nails.
She'd been calling on the beings of love and light and one of the saints but they were not the best suited for the job.  She ended the email by saying, 'here come the forgers of metal.'
There are many levels to the Nine Worlds of the Great Tree Yggdrasil.  To call only upon light beings is out of balance and rather foolish, not unlike trying to drive nails with a screw driver.
The runes teach us of the value, necessity, beauty and balance of both the light and the dark.

Ingrid Kincaid, the Rune Woman
Wise and Irreverent
Awaken Your Hunger
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