Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains enlightenment...
I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what?
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin...
A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed...
Little flying creatures hide in the shadows. But when I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher looks on amused...
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or...
CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
I wondered where a friend was, and felt as if I were walking at night near the Sphinx. Months later...
On our expedition to the black hole, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with the singularity! He could become anything...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
Hokusai's wild mad lines inspired me to draw myself his way, floating asleep on the astral sea...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My sister Althea meditates. With her aura quiet, I mistake her for furniture! That blind to the physical...
I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone...
CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila!
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford. Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation...
The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only someone's broken into my house...
CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece...
Meditation's hard for me; I expect to turn on instantly, like a lamp plugged into Enlightenment...
A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman...
CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I couldn't see how to act on the dream. Then a friend visited...
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE!
I'm a stratospheric bat who catches a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism, a Hindu blessing, or...?
My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I did, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed...
CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATION.
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow...
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 flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me?
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
I closed my eyes at work and saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing a letter home, and I asked...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted my love for him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream! Swim out past the foam to the deeps and you'll find...
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Two of us meditation students dreamed the same night that we were ice skating in Holland together, helping each other...
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask without planning, in a flow state. I really do “follow my bliss”!
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: no sex, meat, alcohol, or cooked food; just meditate in rural solitude...
CAUTION: EXTREMISM
I wanted a dream on my recurring headaches & bellyaches. I meet my illness--a yogic saint who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for their worldliness...