[3][4] In Witching Culture, Sabina Magliocco noted that Nightmare played a key role for several years in the "Spiral Dance", a ritual and dance commemorating the dead performed by Reclaiming for the San Francisco Bay community's Samhain holiday.
[5] Nightmare's comments on significant aspects of the emergent Neopagan culture appear throughout Magliocco's book: trance and deity possession,[6] the importance of dance in ritual,[7] rites of passage,[8] design of an initiation ceremony,[9] and the role of folklore in the development of Neopagan consciousness.
[10] Jone Salomonsen also cited Nightmare as an authority on Neopagan culture in San Francisco throughout her 2002 book, Enchanted Feminism.
[12][13] NightMare represented Pagans on the Biodiversity Project Spirituality Working Group.
[14] In 2019 she founded the Earth-based Spirituality Action Team within Citizens' Climate Lobby.