And likely, believing. The women wear flowing gauzy skirts and stand on a floor marked with chalk from a drawing class. Her inspiration for alternative spirituality was Jim Morrison, she says. They gather to honor Samhain, which in Celtic tales is the end of the harvest. On a tiny altar sit lavender candles and castanets, for dancing.
Smoke curls out of a burner that holds a woodsy incense.
Teamwork is tricky in any religion. A woman, Schmidt says, is in the cave. Someone saw her own mother. Another, a woman in a gorgeous black dress. Later, the women do the grapevine around a shrine.