Month: May 2019
Myths promise us our spiritual inheritance.
Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the pressures and limitations of daily life. Myth speaks to the extraordinary in us and to the innate nobility of our souls. Hearing a mythic story awakens the myth living in each of us. As the story enters us, we enter the timeless territory of myth. We become mythic again, a knowing participant in our own story and a seeker near its source. For, being in a “mythic condition” allows us to reconnect to the core imagination at the center of our soul.
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Read moreWhy Storytelling?
Storytelling can be a process of initiation that brings a person to understanding.
Read moreSome thoughts on Parenting in our time.
It was always understood in the oral Storytelling tradition that the parents were not the spiritual guardians of the children, but rather the physical guardians. The parents’ job was to house, clothe, feed and protect the children from dangers, such as wild animals, floods, storms and so on. This translates for us today as “don’t……get off the bus while it’s still moving” etc. The expectation that the Parents could or should be able to supply everything for the child is false and causes a huge amount of frustration for the child and the parents. I would like to disabuse both parties of this false and unreasonable expectation.
Read moreSam’s Bio.
Who is Sam? Sam has come to the understanding that the stories and myths that we love to tell our children are in fact blue prints for our own psychological well being and give us a metaphorical pathway to the goal of our visit on earth, “The Mystical Marriage” or “Squaring the circle”. The marriage between Ego and Soul.
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Read moreA Letter from the Dark Forest – Fireside Story Evening – 2015-11-17
Are we lost in the darkness of the Forest searching for answer? Or …. are we resting at the healing golden pond?
Read moreThe Hero’s Journey – A Storytelling workshop
The Hero’s Journey: A Storytelling workshop “People say that what we all seek is a meaning of life. I don’t think
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