Svaka žena ima potencijal da dođe do
Rio Abajo Rio, rijeke ispod rijeke. Ona dolazi tamo kroz duboku meditaciju, ples, pisanje, slikanje, molitvu, pjevanje, bubnjanje, aktivnu imaginaciju, ili bilo koju drugu aktivnost koja zahtijeva intenzivno stanje promijenjene svijesti. Žena stiže tamo kroz čežnje i traganje za nečim što može ugledati tek krajičkom oka. Stiže tamo kroz duboko kreativnost, namjernu samoću ili kroz prakticiranje neke vještine (umjetnosti). Čak i kroz takvu spretnost i vještine - mnogo onog što je neizrecivo i neopisivo u svijetu ostaje nam zauvijek misterija, jer se protivi fizikalnim zakonima i racionalnim zakonima kakve poznajemo."
"Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts. And even with these well-crafted practices, much of what occurs in this ineffable world remains forever mysterious to us, for it breaks physical laws and rational laws as we know them."