Hymn to the Mothers chronicles in poetry an odyssey into the spirit world. The poet, with shamanic aid, wanders the haunted house of his own mind, confronting his mother's death and coming up to the precipice of his own. He uncovers his body as a storehouse of past life imprints and parasitic spirits, while spelunking his consciousness and enduring repeated psychic surgeries on the trail of spiritual release. He meets again the shades of his adoptive mother and birth mother, and receives assistance from female healers, material and immaterial. His story becomes a song to feminine wisdom and its power to reveal hidden aspects of human sanity and the workings of the universe.