Stories and Articles by Jim Gilkeson

Recovered Vignettes from Three Lost Worlds for Your Summer Reading — Three Lost Worlds, underwent a major weight-loss program along the way. This resulted in a series of “autobiographical fantasies,” spawned from what hit the cutting room floor in the editing process. Here are links to ten vignettes that are not in Three Lost Worlds. I hope you will enjoy them. …

Installment #70 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists “You, who saw it all, or who saw flashes and fragments, take from us some example, try and get yourselves together, clean up your act, find your community, pick up on some kind of redemption…

Installment #69 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Copenhagen, March 2016 I awaken in a land of bicycles and swans. Copenhagen is a flat, open feeling city with lots of sky and color when the sun is out. Bridges are guarded by naked…

Installment #68 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Well, nothing ever happens in this little town / Unless you count the day that the whole place burned down / People were staring a hole in the sky / Hoping that black cloud would…

Installment #67 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Harbin lives atop a volcano of competing forces. Fire and water collide beneath the surface of everyday life. The building of the Watsu Center marks an uptick in the perennial clash between the Harbin-as-a-spiritual-community faction…

Installment #66 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Much as I love the attention I’m getting, I worry. Most students like what they learn with me, but purists in the worlds of bodywork and energy healing find my work to be different from…

Installment #65 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists My classes expand. Bodywork is viewed as a desirable profession in Northern California, and student enrollment is at a peak. Part of the trend at massage schools is to include instruction in energy healing. Most…

Installment #64 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Harbin’s allure as a world-apart for guests is unmistakable, but it’s an island, and I soon find out that I am not a good islander. I’m not good at hanging out. I’m also not good…

Installment #63 of Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists Harbin has been a well-kept secret up to now, but the Internet and word-of-mouth change that. The tragedy of 9/11 opens a door, and through it comes a surge of guests from the East Coast…