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Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Hummingbird's Message

A Close Encounter of the Feathered Kind

Birds of a Different Feather

The New Religious Consciousness

Paradise Regained: Magic and Reason Together Again, for the First Time

1: “I Fell Asleep Under the Tree”

The Missing Link

“So, You Want to Be a Wise Man?”

That'll Be Five Senses (Only), Please

And Now for Great Rabbit's Next Trick…

A Sickness unto Health

2: Child Sacrifice

Shades of the Prison House…

…Begin to Close

Upon the Growing Boy

Earliest Intimations

The Shadow Dancer

The Secret Source

Parallel Tracks

Interlude: Mother Earth Remembers Me (Even When I Don't)

The Doppelgänger Effect

3: The One Forbidden Thing

Prelude: Some of My Best Friends

Eve's Question, Our Answers

“Go Find Your Tree”

Bungle in the Jungle

The Pathology of Mythology

But Are You Religious?

“But What Would Be the Answer to the Answer Man?”

Loitering at the Doorway of Change

4: Fairy Tales Can Come True

Once Upon a Time in Midwinter…

If and Only If Snow Is White

The Snow Begins to Pile Up

Signs of Spring in Winter, Signs of Winter in Spring

Espresso for the Soul

5: The Goblin Factor

The Only Thing We Have to Fear?

Writer's Block, Goblins Score

But Where's the Rest of Me?

Around the Medicine Wheel

Opening Inward—a Crack

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

The Truth Is in Here

6: Through a Gateway, Lightly

“But Becoming What I Do Not Know”

The Laugh's on Me (or, The Eyes Have It)

The Three Weird Sisters Enter a House of Mourning

Enter (and Leave) Laughing

Sauntering through the Doorway of Change

7: A Fountain Not Made by the Hands of Men

Wallowing in the Trough of Despond

More Signs and Portents

The Lighter Side of the Trough

Return Engagement

Crossing the “Boggle Threshold”

Grabbing the Lifeline

Reset, Revisit, and Release

Janet Stuns Me at Dinner

Ari's Wall and Carol's Fountain

Metaphysical Cross-Dressing (and Other Feelings of Inadequacy)

Golden Retrievals

Moment of Revelation

Epilogue: Aftertime

Questions Galore

Parapsychology en Route

Further Explorations

Eve's Way: Paradise Renamed

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