Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage

Foreword by Ruslana Remennikova

Acknowledgments

Preface: The Basis of This Book

STELE ONE: THE HEART OF CREATION

Part One: A Whirlwind Bypass

1. A Boy and a Girl: November 1974

2. Between Love and Fascination: 1962–1965

3. Back to Egypt: November 1974

4. The Hearth: November 1944–October 1962

5. Stalling Apocalypse: November 1974

6. Astral Projection: November 1974–December 1974

Part Two: The Alchemical Wedding

1. Ann Arbor: June 1966–June 1967

2. Badlands: July 1967–September 1968

3. Totems: October 1968–March 1969

4. Epistemology: April 1969–August 1969

5. Ethnography: September 1969–March 1970

6. Job and Home: April 1970–August 1970

7. The Ghost of Honor: September 1970–July 1972

8. The People’s Republic of Vermont: July 1972–December 1972

9. Kohoutek and the Madness That Calls Now:
January 1973–October 1973

10. The Supergalaxy: November 1973–January 1975

Part Three: The Knight of Pentacles

1. City of Nowhere: January 1975

2. Amor and Psyche: Lindy’s Story in Her Own Words

3. Like a Ripple on a Stream: October 1963–August 1970

4. Chimeras: March 1975

5. Anthropology: April 1975

6. Surf Street Girl: April 1975

7. The Turning of the Wheel: April 1975–June 1975

8. Step Back Like a Monkey: July 1975–September 1975

9. Powwows, Tlingit and Other: October 1975–September 1976

10. Of Enchantments and Coelacanths: September 1976–June 1977

11. The Demise of Eros

STELE TWO: FEMINA MYSTICA

Part One: Undone Business

1. California Wake-Up: June 1977–September 1979

2. Earth Guys Are Easy: September 1979–September 1982

3. Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage

4. The Middle Ford: October 1982–October 1983

5. Crossroads and Watersheds: November 1983–December 1987

6. Marital Dialectics: January 1988–March 1989

Part Two: Mysteries and Keys

1. A Stranger’s Knock: October 1989–November 1990

2. Breema and Cranionsacral Therapy: November 1990–April 1991

3. Transferring the Chi Ball: April 1991–June 1991

4. Amorous Snails: June 1991–August 1991

5. The Origin of Sex

6. Happier Without a Body: August 1991

7. Cupping a Hummingbird: September 1991

8. Of an Owl, a Capybara, and a Swarm of Bees: August 1992

9. Sitting Here in Limbo: August 1992–October 1992

Part Three: Sacred Dance

1. Boot Camp: October 1992–November 1992

2. Rebirthing and Korean Zen: November 1992

3. T’ai Chi with Br’er Coyote: November 1992

4. My Word is Enough: November 1992–December 1992

5. Epithalamium: December 1992–March 1993

6. Erotic Blueprints: March 1992–May 1992

7. Samurai to Shrink: May 1993–August 1994

8. Devil Woman: October 1993–August 1995

Part Four: Οδὸς

1. Past Lives

2. Psychic Lessons

3. Eternal Return

4. I Will Never Walk This Path Again

5. The Alembic

Part Five: Fugue

Prologue: The Anthropocene Back Loop: August 2014–June 2018

1. Walker Between Worlds: June 2018

2. Metamorphosis: June 2018–June 2020

3. Mars Fifteen Degrees Scorpio: June 2020–February 2021

4. Melancholy Baby

5. Curtain Call

Author Biography