The Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to fill in and explain things to the waking world...
Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes, and their effect on the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
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
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with real life?...
CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME
A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2 in the air...
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather?
CAUTION: STUPIDITY
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human.
I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right...
If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream...
CAUTION: RABID RANTING
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
A scholar on Middle Earth warns our obsession with public transparency keeps our psychology crude...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
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 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
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage...
CAUTION: MYSTIC IDEAS
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo harangues me on the Space Race...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen? What do we fear?...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...