ASSOCIATED WITH LEWIS'S WOOD BETWEEN THE WORLDS or, alternatively, the Dark Wood in which the pilgrim Dante finds himself at the beginning of the Commedia. We invoke this legendary woodland, whether a kind of inter-world as depicted by Lewis or, allegorically, the Earthly landscape of confusion and oppression commonly obscuring the Divine Light and its guidance. In a sense, we start in a place of undue and confusing complexity, and (ideally) end having surmounted all our objectives during the allotted three hours. Or consider a wooden footbridge-- we need to test every semi-rotted board comprising it so not to be plummeted into the Abyss stretching between the two sides, this one and... the Other. Yes, that "Dark Wood" most famously refers to Dante Alighieri's Selva Oscura (Dark Wood of Error) in Canto I of the Inferno-- it's a symbolic, terrifying forest of Sin and Confusion. In reality, YOU can experience a literal Dark Wood of giant trees right in your backyard, in Northern California. You can pick up the Show from there, provided you have the proper equipment. With: SubGenius Sacred Scribe Ivan Stang's Pufferdome address to the Pagans at Starwood 2018.