“The Milky Way”

“By now it was late. The scene before, below, and above the friends was marvelous. The Milky Way looked like a gigantic brain spread across the middle of the sky. A central spine of plum purple rose up to their left at a sixty-degree angle. This spine overlay a roughly elliptical patch colored in faint […]

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“Beyond Differences”

“My friends, words and concepts and logic are not the tools we will need to accomplish our quest. The world is already at war, with words the first of its weapons drawn. It is fighting to the death over concepts that, in most every case, are simply rallying cries for blood lust. Logic is being […]

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“Keyhole Arch”

“The overpowering physical and spiritual beauty of the scene blessing their eyes continued to hold everyone’s attention. What were words in the face of this? The keyhole arch beckoned to them. Brightly glowing in soft golden light, it might have been the passageway leading to a brighter world. They all felt like knights or priestesses […]

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“Big Sur”

“Ten eyes stared in the same direction. Five souls stirred at the sight presented to their eyes. Something about the surrounding scene seemed to bear directly on the wild and wonderful idea they had been thinking and talking about for several days. On the beach below the cliff where the friends reclined, natural grandeur was […]

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“Transcendence”

“She had no orientation for her awareness. It no longer faced forward. There was nothing, and that nothing extended forever in every direction. There were no objects. There was no sound. There were no lights or shadows. There was only Infinite extension. Then her awareness-space flamed bright. As though a bank of brilliant lamps had […]

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“Lovemaking”

“As she stared up at his eyes, which looked straight back into hers, Lucinda felt, for the first time in her life, that she had entered her inner paradise in the company of another. Danny was right there with her as her consciousness blossomed out to fill the entire room. He rippled with her in […]

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“The Cloud”

“Lucinda stared up at the sky. A gigantic, solid mass of shell-pink cloud stretched across three quarters of the firmament, billowing like a baby’s covering blanket. The edge of the huge cloud was curled up, scroll-like. The surface of the formation was completely smooth, not in the least ruffled. A wonderful sense of peace and […]

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