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ALTHEA'S CHICKEN: by Wayan; 1990/3/27, a nightmare-farce. My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that... |
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night... |
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ARCTIC UNICORN: by Wayan; 1989/8/2, a self-flagging predictive dream I'm in a gypsy wagon that always creeps north; to break the spell, I need an arctic unicorn. Four days later, at work at the library, a new book appears: Nancy Luenn's Arctic Unicorn... |
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BEAR READ DUNE: by Wayan; dreamed 1981/1/28, painted 10 years later. There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair... |
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THE BEES' ANSWER: by Wayan; 1994/8/2, a diagnostic dream. A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied... |
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THE BLACK CURRENT: by Wayan; 1985/6/16, a slice-of-life dreamtale. A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village... CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE |
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BLACK MAGIC: by Wayan; 1986/11/10, a dream of love and rage; Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone. A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab. They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn... |
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THE BLUE MILLIPEDE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5 (Election Night), a political dream. I'm a wizard chasing crooked politicians in a big city. They have a car, I hop a trolley-- only on the astral plane it's a giant blue millipede, and... CAUTION: RECKLESS DRIVING, THEFT OF PUBLIC MILLIPEDE |
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BODY-SWITCH: by Wayan; 2000/6/10; a dream of a castaway soul Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Thrive? The TV dance show helps... |
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BONES DON'T LIE: by Emily Joy; 2006/12/13, a gruesome nightmare on guilt. I know I'm a murderer; what isn't so clear is what I killed and why... CAUTION: DISMEMBERMENT, GUILT, DREAD |
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BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war-dream. 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 |
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BOYS WHO RUN WITH THE SCISSORS: by Wayan; 1986/1/26, a shamanic dream-joke Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are... |
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BRICK AND SKIN: by Wayan; 1988/10/18, a dream of spiritual stretching. I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ... |
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BUT I WANT TO LIVE!: by Wayan; 1995/8/5, a life-altering dream. My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die... CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES |
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A CONVERSATION WITH ANOREXIA: by Wayan; 1994/6/25; two wild shamanic dreams. 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... |
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COSMIC EGG AND ENERGY BIRD: by Wayan; 1971/12/4, a childhood mystical dream. A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes... |
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COYOTE PAJAMAS: by Wayan; 1983/12/17, a Dantesque dream-epic. I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal... CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE |
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COYOTE'S DINNER PRAYER: by Wayan; 1998/6/5. A waking prayer-poem for you hungry coyotes. Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet.. CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION |
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COYOTE'S VAULT: by Wayan; 1994/5/4, a shamanic dream of the future. One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in... |
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CROC BOY: by Wayan; 2008/8/17, a dream-poem, Dreamverse #7. I visit a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, she freaks out... |
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CROSSTIME HEALTH RISK: by Wayan; 1999/7/23, a warning dream of parallel worlds. A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks... |
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CURSES!: by Wayan; 1995/7/29, a rant on how we fear the power of wishes. Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet the fear of curses fueled the witch hunts... CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE |
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DEER-MAN DANCING: by "Cmmndrblu"; early 2006, a shamanic dream-within-a-dream at least six layers deep! I met a deer-man in the woods. I go lucid, then wake up... to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again, and wake, and wake... |
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THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human... |
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THE DEER'S HOLY LAKE: by Wayan; 1995/5/15, a dream of holy turf. A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake... |
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DEVANGELS: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a numinous but ambivalent dream After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations... CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS? |
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DON JUAN AND THE FLYERS: by 'Rasselon'; 2009/12/17, a shamanic dream about focus. Winged things lurk in the shadows. When I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher watches amused... |
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(THEIR) DREAM HOUSE: by Wayan; 1986/1/1, a New Year's nightmare. A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault.... |
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DREAMRIDER: by Wayan; 1986/4/15, a short, startled rant, chapter 5 of UNICORN TAG. A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life way too closely for comfort... |
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THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHIC INVASION: by Wayan; 1999/4/17, a dream about ESP What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's bodies invade you, it's molestation... |
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THE EGG PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1990/3/2, digital painting of a magical dream. I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs... |
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EMADRO: by Wayan; 1983/6/4, a wild dream on clinging--and letting go. An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help? |
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EMISSARY: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an astral dreamtale. I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it... |
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THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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THE ETHICS OF LUCIDITY: by Wayan; 1994/2/19, a thoughtful dream on time and cause. I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST... CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS |
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FALL FROM A STAR: by Edwin Muir; 1920, a hypnogogic shamanic initiation Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits... |
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FILLING THE ANCESTORS' SHOES: by Wayan; 1995/9/24, a shamanic dream. A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred... |
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FIRE IN THE CRUCIBLE: by Wayan; 1996/11/5, a confessional essay on genius. A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone? |
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FIRST DREAMFLIGHT: by Wayan; 1969/11/11, two dream-results from my first dreamwork experiment. I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight... |
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FLEEING KAMPUCHEA: by Laura Lawrence; early 1990s?; recurring nightmares of a future client's life My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids to the border... |
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FLU PRESCRIPTION: by Qu'lad and Togumalis, 1918 or 19, two shaman's dreams that saved lives Qu'lad, dying of flu in the pandemic, dreamt a wolf told him cold-water baths would save him. He staggered to the river. He lived. He told others. They lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, prescribed the same. A century later, hospital records show why it worked... CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR |
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FREE THE HICK? A Dream Left Hanging: by Wayan; 1999/9/15, a shard still bearing a message With an ignore-us spell, our team plans to free the angry Hick from the Submerged Court. But the Coyote Girls can see us! Will this really work? |
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FREEZE!: by Wayan; 1984/5/29, a surreal dream of asymptotic political advice Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do? |
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GARDEN OF THE GODS: by Wayan; 1995/10/6, a dream of slowth. In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop... |
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GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
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THE GHOST OF CREATIVE CATASTROPHE: by Wayan; 2020/3/25, a dream of Covid as... playful? A whimsical spook causes a chain of crashes--a pedestrian dodges an elephant, swerving a car that shoves a cyclist into a luggage-wrangler whose rolling suitcase panics a dog who runs into... |
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GISLI THE OUTLAW: by Gisli the Outlaw of Iceland; 966-973, a series of at least ten life-saving dreams. Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years! |
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GREENBIRD SAVIOR: by Wayan; 1983/6/2, a divine comedy. Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right... CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS |
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GRIEF KIVA: by Wayan; 1980/2/16, a lucid psychic dream. In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come... |
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GROUNDHOG DAY: by Wayan; 1994/9/2, a dream-comic (or text with pix) James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE... |
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HALF SHAMAN, HALF STATESMAN: by Wayan; 1986/4/21, a parallel-world dream: Chapter 6 of UNICORN TAG I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because... CAUTION: LANGUAGE |
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HEALING DANCE: by Wayan; 1997/5/14, a dream of shamanic shop talk. A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship... |
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THE HEDGEHOG DISPENSARY: by Wayan; 2004/10/2, furtopian watercolor 12-page dreamcomic (or text + pics) A rabbit shaman makes his student drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. How to free her? CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR |
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HIS MINE: by Wayan; 1985/12/2, an epic Wild West dream I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate? But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits... |
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I AM NOT A MAN: by Wayan; 1996/11/28, a dream of Middle Earth. I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human. My denial has grave consequences, but it's absolutelytrue... |
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I FIGHT FOR BEAUTY: by Wayan; 1990/1/1, an incubated dream within a dream within a dream. From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new... |
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ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
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AN INTERVIEW WITH WAYAN: by Wayan; 1994/3/20, an interview. Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming... |
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ISHI AND SNOID: by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a dream on uncomfortable growth I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping our secret of time-travel from reckless white guys... |
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JUNG'S DENIAL: by Wayan; 1994/12/16, a journal extract on Jung. Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!... |
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THE KRELKIN SISTERS ON MISSION ST: by Wayan; 1995/6/7, a dream of superior beings I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY |
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LACED WITH TERROR: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, an anti-nightmare. Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear... |
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THE LADY BATHES IN GRIEF: by Wayan; 1983/5/31, a long-haul psychic dream. Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us... |
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A LAKE DEMON: by Wayan; 1979/11/3, an anti-lucid dream. I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid... |
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LAYANASHA'S DREAM: by Layanasha, laibon of the Maasai, c.1850, a prophecy spanning 65-70 years Layanasha foresaw the British would bring a great snake spanning Maasai territory, then a plague killing half the tribe, a second plague killing nearly all the cattle, and finally huge birds flying over the veldt... |
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LEARNING SCALES: by Wayan; 1985/6/26, an epic dream of Chinese dragons. I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need an Imperial Dragon... |
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THE LION KING: by Wayan; 1995/9/15, a time-travel dream on social skills. When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex... |
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THE LIZARD LESSON: by Wayan; 1996/12/12, a hard-hittin' shamanic dream. I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits... |
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LOBSTER ECSTASY: by Wayan; 1970/11/1?, a teenage lobster love dream. One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love... CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX |
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MAMA BEAR'S ADVICE: by Wayan; 1985/12/8, a dream on love-tactics. A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom... |
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THE MAN WITH THE SNAKE: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/9/3, dream of an aborted shamanic duel I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened... |
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MANTA-SQUID: by Wayan; 1986/3/13, a nightmare on the Senoi hoax DAY: I read an exposé on "Senoi dreamwork"--the Malaysian Senoi people disavow it. Some white guy just made it up! DREAM: I'm a dream researcher in Malaysia. A manta-squid attacks! Now the "Senoi" focus on my needs makes sense... CAUTION: TENTACLE-RAPE ATTEMPT |
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MARCO TO WIN: by Violet Tweedale, 1893 or 4; a predictive... something We went to visit a well-known psychic. As an afterthought I asked about an upcoming race. The answer was firm: "Marco to win..." We made a lot off her tip. But when I thanked her later, we were shocked to learn she'd never heard me! Then who had spoken?... CAUTION: WEIRD EVEN FOR SPIRITUALISTS |
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MARTIAN AIRLOCK and JAGUAR MASK: by Wayan, 2015/6/22, twin shamanic near-nightmares Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?... Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged... |
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THE MARTIAN FEUD: by Wayan; 1994/3/10, a warning dream. On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning... CAUTION: VIOLENCE |
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MASTER OF THE HOUSE OF DUSK: by Wayan; 1994/10/10, an initiatory dream. To enter the House of Dusk, I must say what haunts the Pass. Even if I guess right, do I really understand? |
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MAYAN FORCE: by Wayan; 1992/12/6, a political dream-fable. First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people... |
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MEMORY SNIP!: by Wayan; 1999/5/15, a dream on the cost of kindness. My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous! CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF |
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MENTOR: by Wayan; 2001/6/13, six advisory dreamlets. I meet a shapeshifting mentor who warns of coming war (9/11?). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved... CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA |
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THE MIWOK RITE: by Wayan; 1999/11/20, a dream fable. A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really a old Miwok rite... |
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MOA: by Wayan; 1995/9/9, a dream on assertion. I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother... |
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MY NAME IS WAYAN: by Wayan, 1986/5/23, a dream of names and manes. A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?... |
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MY SINE-FRIEND: by Wayan; 1984/3/6, an emotional dream of time and rebirth. An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero... |
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THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream. Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup? |
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NEST, EGGS AND LEGS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; l993/9/7, a comic mystical dream Two friends send energy through me, transforming me. Now that my legs are detachable, I can sit comfortably on my eggs... |
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A NIGHT ON MOUNT DIABLO: by Wayan, 1984/6/8, an allegorical four-phase dream. I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus... CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS |
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NO VACATIONS?: by Wayan; 1999/8/14, a spiritual nightmare. Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations? |
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NORASINGH: by Wayan; 1987/1/15, a Tantric Frankenstein dream. I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in... CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS |
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OLDER AND YOUNGER: by 'Rasselon'; 2009/11/17, a dream of erotic deviousness The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue... CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR |
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OTTER MEDICINE: by The-Fringe, a Crow healer, early 1850s; a shamanic dream with physical effects I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore... |
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PASTLIFE TRAINING TRACKS: by Wayan; 1981/5/5, a bikin' buddha dream. I'm biking around a railroad switch-yard. Slowly realize they're life-paths. People start following me out... |
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PIGEON SHAMAN: by Rick Veitch; Feb 1974, a dream-comic on Jungian shadows. Bums tap on the diner window. I tell them to buzz off, until I really look at the latest--a shaman dressed as a huge pigeon. He's no panhandler!... |
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POTLATCH SMOKE: by Wayan; 1988/5/10, a shamanic dream-inside-dream 4 levels deep! Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why? |
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THE POWER OF SUGGESTION: by Wayan; 1995/10/11, a dream on shamanic tactics. After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival... |
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A PRISONER OF ZEN: by Wayan; 1980/11/9, a dream on isolation. The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him? |
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REALITY LOOPS: by Wayan; 1996/12/26, a dream on the multiverse. My dream shows me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams aren't simulations but windows into worlds. So be nice to dream-figures! Turns out you ARE one... |
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REFLECTIONS IN THE POOL: by Wayan; 184K total, 2 panoramas; a 1994/7/2 dream. 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 |
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REVOLUTION IS MESSY: by Emily Joy; 2006/4/26, a political dream When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally... |
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RING OF WHITE WATER: by Wayan; 1983/1/30, an epic astral dream. I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead... CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS... |
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ROBINSON JEFFERS AS A SHAMAN: by Wayan; 1996/7/28, a life-review, with 2016/10/22 followup Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)? CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL |
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SEA EAGLE: by Robert Moss, 20th century, a psychic dream I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream... |
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SEA OF TIME: by Wayan; 1989/7/26. Digital sketch of astral dream. I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. Painful questions... |
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SELF-MADE GIRLS: by Wayan; 2000/2/15, a public dream. Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly... |
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SERAFINA AND RAM DASS: by Wayan; a 2000/11/6 dream anticipating an 11/9 experience with auras A Finnish shaman/witch gives me a lesson in night flying; in the waking world I meet Ram Dass and sense him speak astrally before his body can get the words out... CAUTION: HIGH MYSTICAL QUOTIENT; IF ALLERGIC, AVOID |
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THE SHAMAN INSPECTOR: by Wayan; 1996/7/31, a dream on core values. My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles: |
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SHASTA OCCUPATION: by Wayan; 1996/11/1, a dream of telepathic spill-over. I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another... |
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SHASTA STANDARDS: by Wayan; 1998/9/19, a dream of social change. In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils... |
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SILKY'S WEDDING: by Wayan; 1988/1/6, a dreamtale. Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last... |
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SOCK PUPPETS OF THE GODS: by Dee and Wayan; 1994/4/14. Parallel shamanic dreams! I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual. NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is... CAUTION: IDEAS |
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SOUL-BOARD: by Wayan; 1989/1/12, a dream poem. Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself... |
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THE SPHINX APPROVES: by Wayan; 1991/5/2, a dreamtale on growth. A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now... |
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SPILL SPELL: by Wayan; 1995/9/30, a mini-dream. I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway? |
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SPIRITUAL TESTS: by Wayan; 2000/8/28, a predictive dream 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! |
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SWALLOWED!: by Wayan; 1990/7/30, a warning dream. An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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TAHOE DRAGON: by Wayan; 1980/8/16. A dream of flight and fire. A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe... |
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THE TAO OF DENNIS THE MENACE: by Wayan; 1986/4/17, a dream of a wise mentor. Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me... |
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TAROT: THE WINGED COYOTE (Freedom!): by Wayan; tarot card from a dream, 1979/3/14. I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon... |
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TELEPATH TREES: by Wayan; 1993/9/11, a how-the-other-half-lives dream with 7 pics I dream Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, in my dreams inside my dream, they meet me... |
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TEN THOUSAND MAD GHOSTS: by Wayan; 1996/9/3, a psychic nightmare. 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 |
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THREE DREAMS & A COINCIDENCE: by Rick Veitch, c.1996, predictive shamanic dreams Three dreams set on Abenaki holy ground, of weird shamans--one ashen, one pumpkin-headed, the third goofy-faced--lead me to visit the site. Where I find the river's washed up that third shaman's face... CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS |
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TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders... |
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TIBETAN DISASSEMBLY: by Wayan; 2007/7/5, a dream of a desperate ploy A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment to backup her memories and... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME |
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THE TIGER'S THROAT: by Wayan; 1994/4/12, a psychic dreamtale. I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea.... |
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TORTILLA EARS: by Wayan; 1994/6/2, a short shamanic dream. Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked... |
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THE TRAIN ON TIME CAFE: by Wayan, 1981/12/20, an epic political dream. Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then... |
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MY TUTELARY UNCLE: by Wayan; 1993/5/28, a shamanic dream. I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine... |
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TWILIGHT'S OVAL GAME: by Wayan; 2017/10/4, three dreams arguing "Friendship is Magic"--literal magic. 1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt... 2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends... 3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself... CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL |
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TWO BISHOP APPLICANTS: by Wayan; 1984/11/21, a surreal but mercilessly logical dream. My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel... |
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UNDER THE FUR: by Wayan, 1997/10/7; a 5-page dream-comic (or as ill. text) A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit... |
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UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works... |
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UNICORN FEEDBACK: by Wayan; 2009/1/3, a double dream of advice A telepathic unicorn gives me some subtle advice. I wake, and tell a friend, who easily proves my account is distorted by my own biases. Telepathy's confusing! Wake again. Her correction was part of the dream... |
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UNICORN TAG: by Wayan; 1986, a linked series of illustrated dreams.
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism... Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus. Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus. Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus. Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus. Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus. Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus. Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus. |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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VERTICAL PLANES: by Wayan; 1990/3/7, an astral pirate dream. We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out... |
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THE VORTEX: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a nightmare countered. 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. |
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WABOSE'S VISION: by Catherine Wabose (Ogeewyahnoquot Okwa), Feb. 1814? shamanic initiation dreams After fasting for six days, I dreamed of three spirit helpers who aided my village, guiding hunters toward game and healing others. But I lost so many loved ones... CAUTION: SPOUSE MURDERED; CAREER BURNOUT |
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WAPATO BIRDS: by Wayan; 1986/2/2, a subtly psychic dream. I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite my shyness, I must lead our people's migration to the Grand Teton lakes... |
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WARIA: by Wayan; 1987/3/23, digital painting of a pointed advisory dream. My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained: WARNING: NUDITY |
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WARM FUZZIES: by Wayan; 1990/2/20, an origin-myth dream. I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies, boating on lava through the earth's core, and now when a volcano erupts, I know who it is that's quarreling beneath.. |
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WATERCATS: by Wayan; 1987/9/10; an epic, clear predictive dream I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them, brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats! |
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WELLS'S QUEST: by Wayan; 1992/7/14, a benevolent dream. I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power... |
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WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy... |
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"WHAT SHARKS?": by Wayan; 1990/4/22, a dream of multiple viewpoints. A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she? |
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THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of my anima I visit a dude ranch where you learn to turn into other species--see how others live. A white mare I barely recognize says Hello... |
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WHY I BECAME THE SEA: by Wayan; 1980/6/19, a vengeful flying/transformation dream. I get so mad at some gaybashing cops and gangsters that I become the sea itself and chase them... CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE |
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THE WIZARD'S HORSE: by Wayan; 2018/9/3, a magical dream about... toxic waste? I'm a wizard's horse, trying to warn him about a toxic spell on a roadside corpse... Wake into a second dream, but try to return to being a dream-mare and warn my rider... And then wake to realize my Nightmare was warning about a home-renovation project! |
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THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
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WORKIN' FOR PEANUTS: by Wayan; 1990/12/11, a crude but perceptive dream. I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal... CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM |
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WYVERN: by Wayan; 1997/9/3 to 9/18, 22" ceramic sculpture; recurring dream figure. 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 |
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YOU'RE THE EAGLE: by Wayan; 2000/2/8, a dream fable. A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier? |
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ZELIG FLIES: by Wayan, 1984/4/29, a psychic, lucid dream epic. 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! |
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