![]() ![]() ![]() Ria's childhood nightmares made her fear she was mad, till she learns the hard way that she was picking up broadcasts from a violent crazy person-exactly as I learned, at 17, in The Murders.I WAS such a horse in MY recurring dreams-like I Am Three! A recurrent dream haunted Ria as a child: riding a dreamhorse up cloudpeaks toward the Other World.Dark humor, and the joke's on us.īut as I read on, the parallels between Ria's inner voyage and my own life get uncomfortably personal. Yet her world grew from legitimate environmental and health concerns that most of us support. ![]() It's a safety-obsessed world, an oppressive psychiatocracy where everyone conforms out of fear they'll be judged crazy or a potential terrorist. sane? Her experiences form a classic shamanic initiation, and soon even madness seems irrelevant. But her night work gets wilder and wilder, as Ria dreams further and further off her particular branch of the Tree of Time. I'm reading Sandra Miesel's book, DREAMRIDER, (a new edition is out now, retitled SHAMAN).īy day, mousy Ria works as a historical researcher in a sleepy Midwestern college. ![]()
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