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-In this episode: Episode Description #01: Pulling us right into the shaman's realm of shapeshifting and trance, Chapter One relates how Isaac has a series of mind-shattering dreams which incinerate his previous self-image of hesitation and compromise. Nothing fazes h
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-In this episode: Episode Description #02: Isaac meets Georgia, a woman also determined to erase her past. Together they take a megadose of medicine, during which they merge joyfully with each other and, in a comical tour de force, are forcibly purged of the toxic deb
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-In this episode: Episode Description #03: Isaac still isn't free of his rage as a political activist, when he had a visitation from extraterrestrials trying to show him something he was unwilling to see. Believing he's begun a new life, instead he is swept into the d
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-In this episode: Episode Description #04: Isaac realizes that Georgia is only intermittently in possession of herself. Refusing to listen to his discoveries about 9/11, she reveals that she knows one of his deepest secrets. Spooked for real, calling out to the spirit
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-In this episode: Episode Description #05: Isaac learns that Georgia's father was an abusive, controlling figure whose behavior toward her as a child she's too traumatized to remember. They leave her apartment to wander Manhattan's streets, where for the first time he
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-In this episode: From below Georgia's apartment comes the nonstop noise of a TV, infuriating Isaac. Disregarding her warning, he confronts the menacing old man whom Georgia calls "Papa," who pulls Isaac into his lair and educates him in the ways of the worl
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-In this episode: Isaac discovers that the old man Georgia calls "Papa" can operate outside of space and time--except that, unlike shamans, his agenda is not to heal but to destroy. But his heart is failing. He begs for the healing light pouring from Isaac's
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-In this episode: Waiting in vain for Georgia's return, Isaac reprimands himself for not helping the old man downstairs, who has vanished. He is visited by Georgia's old friend Janine. Soon they make love, with Isaac asking her to join him in loving everyone and Janin
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-In this episode: Isaac encounters more people with barcodes on their foreheads: are they alien entities or normal, law-abiding citizens? He enters a store and watches the Vice-President deliver a speech on TV about the necessity of invading Iraq. That voice, that fac
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-In this episode: Isaac has a clairvoyant vision of the Vice-President in Washington D.C., striding into an elevator which descends deep underground. He understands he will have to confront Dick in his secret hideaway. Then he finally finds Georgia and rescues her fro
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