I'm touring a gloomy, firelit Victorian mansion filled with icons and idols
of every faith in the world, while this funny theme song runs in my head. What is that song?
CAUTION: MUSLIM RANTER; EMBARRASSING SONG
I was an angel slipping through matter, who, like a shark, needed to
keep moving to breathe--stop and I'd drown in the world, lose myself...
After reading Jung's dreams, I have an anti-Jungian dream of sexy nightmare-statues
waiting to come alive, like the tree I draw and bring to life...
CAUTION: NUDE STATUES
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God
in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful...
In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why?
A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman,
starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)...
CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
Two DC-6s catch burn over New York. Me? I'm a naked child in a Babylonian temple in Jersey...
Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they co-operate to save a woman from the Nazis?...
The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a
bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them...
CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand.
Fighting an abolutist theocracy, my dragon-soul burns the
church's dragon-nursery. The cost is terrible: a black vortex...
CAUTION: ROMANTIC THREESOME GETS BURNED
My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING...
CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods.
But all their calls are messages to pass on to others--none for us...
I pay the price, but learn the difference between merely getting off the ground, and true mastery...
Abducted as a kid by alien angels, raised in a luminous cloud, I find it hard to keep a human perspective...
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole.
My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream...
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
Saints and devils in a sunken statuary garden turn too real for comfort; so, creating my own wings, I fly...
A carpenter demolishes a ruined abbey despite dreams he’ll be crushed by stones falling from a window...
Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
The wolf and deer people are getting along well--a relief since I like both.
Now, can the wolves learn from the deer how to open their third eye?
A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
In a museum I talk to a stained-glass artist who's a dreamworker like me.
But a meme seems to be spreading that says dreams mean absolutely nothing...
CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK
Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up...
CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood, full of talking tigers. I must enter it to live a while...
I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
I'm in Mexico. The mountain of the gods looms over Coyacan. Around it, silhouetted
on the rising moon, wheel terrifying griffinlike winged horses wearing capes...
Tibet, 1910. A cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down UFOs. But were they really hostile?
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy...
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop...
A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief...
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander. I'm drawn to one graveside...
In Europe, I enter a cave-shrine. The rocks are lined with breasts. I suck one. It gives milk. They all do. A plaque says...
CAUTION: WEIRD
I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore
their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter...
CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts...
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels...
CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet...
As the train pulled into the cathedral William Burroughs and I saw amid the pews
the Hound of the Baskervilles transform into a great black bird and fly...
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers.
So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see...
CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
It takes time to build yourself out of found objects and trash...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes.
But the other tribe's more powerful flow-state magic is harder to define...
CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it.
I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago!
CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope!
Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it.
Last, I zoom back to ancient China, where I find a candle-lit shrine dedicated to... me?
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
In a Scythian church, a painting says:
"Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell
the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
I'm the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter?
CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging
our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"...
As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests
given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant,
go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet...
Two of us meditation students dreamed one night that we were ice skating in Holland, helping each other...
The Well of Emotion, guarded by the Black Unicorn, the shadow of all the feelings you deny...
I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees.
That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me...
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species...
CAUTION: A TEMENOS IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)...
CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
In a Tibetan monastery on an ancient lakebed, I swim through a vast sunken library.
Books open like sea anemones, letters float to the surface like kelp...
I find the Well of Women's Wisdom. Lucky I'm female tonight! A girl sneers "Narrow!" Is it, or her?
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was
the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
This man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, catches fire, and burns right down to his shoes...
I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool,
into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female
and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves...
CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT!
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...