Dr. Goodman has spent the past twenty years researching trance experiences from a very unique perspective. She searched through the world's neolithic art and artifacts, looking for representations that might depict meditation postures. Then she and her group of researchers experimented with each one, noting the kind of trance experiences each posture produced. She was able to identify thirty different postures in all, and has compiled her research in Where the Spirits Ride the Wind, published the summer of 1990. For any student of meditation or trance journeying, this book is a must!

Goodman has found that each posture produces a predictable experience or journey, generally falling into one of ten categories. For example, she has discovered four postures that take the meditator on a spirit journey. The first posture she ever worked with was of this type, and was found in one o the famous Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France. The second spirit journey posture hails from the nomadic reindeer herders of northern Europe, and the third from South America. The fourth artifact whose posture produces this kind of trance was found in a seventh-century grave site in Georgia.

Goodman describes the spirit journeys like this: "People fly away on birds' wings, peacock clouds spread their shimmering tail feathers, a woman with stars in her hair guards the entrance to the world below, and humans turned into albatrosses alight on the waves of the ocean." The experience produced by the Lascaux posture seems to raise the kundalini; people describe intense orgasmic energy surging up through their bodies before flying off into the wild blue yonder