Jim Gilkeson
3 min readSep 20, 2021

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Index: Three Lost Worlds: A Memoir of Life Among Mystics, Healers, and Life-Artists

Little Fish, Big Sun by DeAnn Duteil. Used with permission.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Installment #1: Prologue: COVID Metamorphosis

PART ONE: THE WICHITA VORTEX

Installment #2: Acorns and Crazy Bones

Installment #3: Early Religion

Installment #4: Intimations of Another World

Installment #5: Walkabout: Leaving the Wichita Vortex

PART TWO: THE MYSTICS

Installment #6: A Tiny Conventicle of Light

Installment #7: One White Hair

Installment #8: Meeting the Order

Installment #9: Baghdad by the Bay

Installment #10: Fredonia Hermit

Installment #11: Duende and Astral Visitors

Installment #12: What Jesus Tells the Abbot About Me

Installment #13: Nashville to Nashville

Installment #14: 27 Cents an Hour

Installment # 15: Music and Light

Installment #16: Not Getting Married Twice

Installment #17: Surrendering to the Inevitable

Installment #18: San Francisco

Installment #19: What the Terrifying Abbot Does with the Abbey

Installment #20: Body Parts and Light

Installment #21: What You Can Do With the Rules

Installment #22: Stones in a Bag

Installment #23: Vows

Installment #24: Men in Robes (Part 1)

Installment #25: Men in Robes (Part 2)

Installment #26: Abbot Appearance

Installment #27: Northwest Passage

Installment #28: Ordained . . . Into What?

Installment #29: Learning to Savor the World

Installment #30: The Accidental Teacher

Installment #31: When the End of the World Doesn’t Come

Installment #32: The Order Mating Game

Installment #33: Northern Exposure

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Jim Gilkeson

Jim Gilkeson is an author, teacher, craniosacral therapist, and musician living in Ashland, Oregon, USA.