Table of Contents
I Genesis
New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Frankfurt, Ulm
In the Chapel of Miraculous Healing 3
Pilgrims and Strangers 8
Departure from Home, Wherever That May Be 38
II Illustrations of the Unseen World: Venice
Imago Mundi 61
The Body Is Such a Strange Home 72
In the Pause Between Two Eternities 87
III Landscape With the Fall of Icarus: Dalmatian Coast, Greece, Cyprus
In the World As at Sea 103
Our Lady of Medjugorje 118
Landscape Without Divinity 134
Putting the Leaves in Order 151
IV Om Phalos: Holy Land
In the Courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher 167
On the Jericho Road 176
A Brief for the Defense 189
The Way 197
Looking for the Field of Damascus 212
The Pools of Bethesda 224
V Into the Void Sinai Desert
Prelude to the Wilderness 235
What the Desert Said 251
Translations 266
Revelation 280
The People of the Garden 295
VI Paradise, Wherever That May Be Cairo, Alexandria
Leviathan 309
The Place of the Cure of the Soul 33
Epilogue: Home
The Kingdom Within You 343
Acknowledgments 349
A Note on Sources 350
Credits 352