Journey into the Dreaming

A Journey into the Dreaming takes author James Cowan deep into the mythos and land of the Aboriginal Australian indigenous peoples. To enter into the Dreaming is to enter into the myth of world-creation that embodies every aspect of being, all woven into a single entity. To understand the Dreaming is to understand how mythos transfigures matter and re-natures nature. The journey follows James Cowan and his guide Two Bob as they embark on a personal-spiritual quest that reminds us all that the primordial moment of creation is very much alive.

A Journey into the Dreaming, written shortly before the author's untimely passing, is here published for the first time as part of the Balgo Hills Publishing mandate to honor the life and work of James Cowan and to make his previously unpublished manuscripts available to readers.

James Cowan (1942 - 2018) is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art monographs, and philosophy. He is a recipient of the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal for his novel A Mapmaker's Dream, as well as an honorary doctorate in the USA. As part of his commitment to improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians, James worked in the Tanami Desert for two years in the mid-1990s as representative for local Aboriginal art and artists. His books have been published in over twenty languages.