BOOKS:
ALICE
HICKEY: Between Worlds is a dizzying, unpredictable, sometimes troubling
story about two people flung together by inexplicable psychic forces. Poet
Justin Spring is rummaging through a bin of tomatoes in a Florida supermarket
when an elderly woman, a complete stranger, approaches him and seemingly speaks
to him from inside his mind. Stunned, he instinctively knows the
voice was not of this world, but before he can regain his composure, the woman
disappears into the parking lot without a word of explanation.
In the months that follow, he is assailed by a series of equally mysterious and troubling psychic events. Just when he is sure he is losing his mind, Alice reappears and slowly unwinds the poet’s tangled skein of voices, spirits, dopers, psychics, psychiatrists, poets, strippers, scholars, archeologists, and drunks to show the poet what the psychic world has been trying to tell him—that a new consciousness is evolving—one more balanced between intuition and reason.
This is a totally unpredictable story about the roots of human consciousness, the psychic roots of poetry, the early Mother Goddess period, and our constantly evolving consciousness—but even more than that, it is a story about an extraordinary friendship that somehow blossomed on the unruly border between the two worlds.