title: Earth Dreams: Finding Light in the Shadow
author: Elizabeth A. Brensinger
description: A heroic story of one woman's journey through shadow and into light -- <i>Robert A. Johnson</i><br /><br />Earth Dreams taught me about myself, about how I deal with memory, and about the relationship between memory and enlightenment. -- <i>Steven Foster</i><br /><br />Highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in metaphysics, spirituality, Jungian psychology, and the phenomena of the 'vision quest' -- <i>The Midwest Book Review</i>
zlib_text: **Black Light**
  
   **Elizabeth Hand**
  
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   _For John Clute, who helped me map Kamensic,_
  
   _and_
  
   _For Kathleen Hart, Anne Wittman, and Steve Plaushin, who lived with me
  there_
  
   **Contents**
  
  PART ONE: DECADES
  
  1\. Helter Skelter
  
  2\. Some of These Things First
  
  3\. Ghosts
  
  4\. No Fun
  
  5\. Children of the Revolution
  
  6\. Things Behind the Sun
  
  7\. Dancing Days Are Here Again
  
  PART TWO: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
  
  8\. How Do You Think It Feels
  
  9\. Houses of the Holy
  
  10\. The Punk Meets the Godfather
  
  11\. Beyond the Green Door
  
  12\. You Set the Scene
  
  PART THREE: THE ETERNAL
  
  13\. White Light/White Heat
  
  14\. Harvest
  
  A Biography of Elizabeth Hand
  
  Author’s Note
  
  And all alone on the hill I wondered what was true. I had seen something very
  amazing and very lovely, and I knew a story, and if I had really seen it, and
  not made it up out of the dark, and the black bough, and the bright shining
  that was mounting up to the sky from over the great round hill, but had reall