Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
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
My dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one...
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
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I was late for work. They thought I was spacy...
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
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
I find a lost book of Freud's with a radical idea: Jung's Shadow is real, but there's a second Shadow:
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV instead. But it melts, and a huge terrifying figure rises...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to make his changes meaningless. Who's sabotaging him? Or should we ask... WHAT?
A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy?
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air...
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is..
CAUTION: IDEAS
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage...
CAUTION: MYSTIC IDEAS
As I reread decades of my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, soul-work goes calmly on...
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life...
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that girl she's been sitting on...
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 have a job setting up secret doors to other realities and creating paths through our world between them...
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
Two realities pester me like big spoiled babies to care for their mythic figures, till I go on shamanic strike...
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where a swordswoman in a red bikini gives me a unicorn. The next day...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage... nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon...
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, they meet me in my dreams...
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten...
CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar...
I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
A "friend" gives me her TV. Turns out there's a small-minded devil in it who cheats on all his deals...
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
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A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown treatment has an effect...
When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle.
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism...
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I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age?
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew...
CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
I'm in suburbia for the End of the World. A Vortex eats the block, licks at me. So I click some icons:
CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE. OH, AND THE APOCALYPSE, TOO. I FORGOT..
I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite shyness, I must lead our people's migration...
My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer...
WARNING: NUDITY
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
An empire of creatures who go into seasonal heat has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type...
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Do I want to? Even my dreams don't know. Then I wake to find my meditation itself was a dream, and the answer; as much of an answer as I'm going to get.
I visit a dude ranch where you learn to be other species. A white mare I barely recognize says hello...
I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them...
CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades...
Indescribable! I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the secret pool of the Oracle Harpist, 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!
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?