Gate: The Night Sky Above the Indus Valley I stepped through the vision gate and stood upon a barren plain beneath which leviathans tunneled, pushing the dirt up as they swam underneath the ground. A great mound of dirt came towards me and it exploded beneath my feet, creating a tunnel down which I fell […]
Read more "Chapter 75: The Gaze of the Tiger God"Gate: A Falcon Statue I entered the vision gate and found myself walking in the moonlight through thick reeds beside a dark river. At first, Badger trundled along beside me in his animal form. But then, he shifted into his human aspect and carried a brightly shining torch to light my way. Dream appeared to […]
Read more "Chapter 74: Propitiating Khonsu"Gate: A Sugar Cube I stepped through the vision gate and found myself skating on ice with snowflakes falling all around me. I swooped and twirled over the frozen landscape, aware that something large was rising beneath the ice. Then, there was a tremendous crack, the ice broke, and an enormous turtle emerged from the […]
Read more "Chapter 73: Dream’s War with Enduring Heartbreak"Gate: The Animus I stepped through the vision gate and was running with a herd of buffalo- panicked and fleeing before a pack of wolves. Badger pushed his way through the herd and we ran together beneath a moon-lighted sky. “We’ve been running from the enemy a lot lately,” I observed, wiping a drop of […]
Read more "Chapter 70: The Wolves and the Devourer in the Garden of the Mind"Gate: Scattered Rose Petals I stepped through the vision gate and was running through a forest with Badger by my side. “Hello…” I started to say but he shushed me. “The hunters are too close,” he said. “Do not speak, do not even think of speaking, or they’ll find us.” Badger found a standing tree […]
Read more "Chapter 69: Freeing Psyche from Misogyny’s Tower"Gate: Prince of Spades or Prince of Swords I stepped through the vision gate and stood upon a plain looking up at an ivory tower set high upon a cliff. Badger appeared beside me and he began digging in the soil so I also knelt down and began shifting aside the dirt with my hands. […]
Read more "Chapter 68: The King of Spades and Starry Ivy"Gate: The New Moon above a Desert Oasis I stepped through the vision gate and was floating over a field full of living, grasping thorns. Thick vines flowed out of a central growth and snatched at my feet. “Badger!” I cried out as I was pulled down into the plant. “Help me, please!” A moment later my badger […]
Read more "Chapter 67: An Oasis for the Fox Prince"Gate: Nimue’s Grotto I stepped through the vision gate and stood on a barren plain. Steel escalators exploded from the ground and wound their way into the air in a suddenly chaotic scene of noise and motion. A set of stairs came into being under my feet and propelled me upwards into the sky. At […]
Read more "Chapter 66: Returning Nimue’s Sun to the Cave of Madness"Gate: Hestia’s Oven I stepped through the vision gate and stood upon a path made of black volcanic stone that shone with its own inner light. A blood red glow began to emanate from the stones beneath my feet so that a way forward was revealed and I followed the red path through the darkness. […]
Read more "Chapter 65: The Grief of Hestia"Gate: The Fool I stepped through the vision gate and saw myself as a star falling from the night sky. I fell along with other bright, shining stars. We tumbled towards Earth together. When I hit the ground, I stood up and looked at the other falling stars/people. Some hit the Earth as I did and […]
Read more "Chapter 62: Taking the Leap from the Tree of Life"
The Light Congress 