1. Introduction: An Earth-Based Sensual Spirituality of Art, Ritual and Trance -- 2. A/r/tography as Ritual and Dreaming in Matrixial Borderspace(s) -- 3. Trance, Sacred Place and Collaboration -- 4. Artists and Trance -- 5. Gestare Art Collective: With Nané Jordan and Medwyn McConachy -- 6. Attending to Ancient Voices -- 7. Performance Ritual: With Tannis Hugill -- 8. Dreaming into Lines of Matrixial Time.

This book provides insights into the practice of trance-based inquiry through arts-based research, serving as a beacon to guide the way to thresholds of ancient, yet novel, transmissions. Embedded in lived experience and theory, this book introduces the reader to the liminal space of place and trance-based inquiry processes entwined with creative artworkings. The interweaving of art, ritual, and trance-based inquiry opens sacred spaces for learning and unlearning that bring spirit into form. Each chapter presents examples from women artists and culminates with experiential practices drawn from the author’s decades of creative peregrinations to assist artists, teachers, and researchers in transmitting a conscious way of practicing and creating with trance. .