Contents

Part One

1 The Tribe from Nowhere

2 Pillar of Fire

3 Deciphering Ancient Dreams

4 Transmission

5 The Aleph

6 Diverse Mytho-logical Speculation

7 Dreamscape

Part Two

8 The Ark of God

9 Machine from the Future

10 An Experiment with Time

11 Angel of the Lord

12 Cytogenesis

13 The Protoplast

Part Three

Acknowledgments