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Sam Sleeman

Sam Sleeman

Shamanic Storyteller

Sam Sleeman

Shamanic Storyteller

  • 2019-11-28 king to from
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    Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the pressures and limitations of daily life
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    Myth speaks to the extraordinary in us and to the innate nobility of our souls.
  • frog to prince – 2019-11-27-8sec
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    Hearing a mythic story awakens the myth living in each of us.
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    As the story enters us, we enter the timeless territory of myth.
  • prince to king – 2019-11-27-8sec
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    We become mythic again, a knowing participant in our own story and a seeker near its source.
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    For, being in a “mythic condition” allows us to reconnect to the core imagination at the center of our soul.

  • About Sam
    • Sam’s Bio.
    • Testimonials
    • About Storytelling. Why I created this site.
  • Why Storytelling?
    • Story telling, Journeying with Ego to the other world.
    • The Hero’s journey. The journey from head to Heart.
    • Rites of passage
    • Resources for Storytellers
      • Iron John Chapter 00 Before we begin, understanding these stories, as our personal journey, following the signposts left by stories along the way
  • Stories
    • Iron John
      • Iron John Chapter index and Bones
    • Iron John Chapter 008, The Axis Mundi of the world tree, The Star Woman story, and the Parsifal story
    • The parodical King. A story and a prayer for our time.
    • The Devils Sooty Brother. Chapter index and story Bones
    • The Half Giantess
      • The Half Giantess Bones and Chapter index
    • Jack and the Bean stalk
    • Off with the rats head
      • Off with the Rats head. Bones Chapter 01.
    • The Star Woman
      • The Star Woman Chapter 01 The bones and the Chapter Index
    • The Maiden Czar
    • The Moon Palace
      • The Moon Palace Bones and details
    • The Firebird story.
    • The Frog Bride. a shame.
    • The lizard in the fire
  • Bookshelf
    • Essays
    • Poetry
    • Audio-recordings
    • The apothecary shop of prose. Remedies for unsettled Souls.
    • Reading List.
    • Videos
  • Events
    • Men Standing up.
  • Newsletter
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Bookshelf

Audio-recordings Essays 

Violence in our land, Where is our outrage??

30 Nov 20202 Dec 2020 Sam Sleeman 77 Views 2 Comments loss of soul, rage against the dying of the light of our Soul, soul retrieval, Status quo, wasteland, Wounds

Our land, South Africa is being torn apart by violence of all sorts. Not all of it physical, some political, some economic, some ideological. Where are the people in all of this? African proverb. When the Elephants make love stay off the grass.

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Poetry 

Poem. Last Night As I Was Sleeping

26 Oct 202026 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 101 Views 0 Comments life's mistakes, loss of soul, poems, soul, soul retrieval

Our mistakes are the steppingstones to our Soul retrieval from the banishment by the status quo.

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Poetry 

Poem. Is my Soul asleep?

26 Oct 202026 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 104 Views 0 Comments loss of soul, poems, soul, soul retrieval

Even in this material world, our Soul is not asleep. It waits for us to return.

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Iron John Videos 

Zoom gathering Iron John, The journey of a lifetime

22 Oct 202022 Oct 2020 carlosadmin 65 Views 0 Comments
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Aubrey Marcus Painting ©️ Wojciech Siudmak
Poetry 

Poem. To be a slave of intensity.

11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 115 Views 0 Comments intensity of the work, poems

When the guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work.

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Audio-recordings Rites of passage 

Audio, When the Father is absent by James Hillman, The axis Mundi

11 Oct 202024 Dec 2020 Sam Sleeman 258 Views James Hillman, When the Father is absent

A piece about the loss of the Senex the old father of tradition and code. What happens when he is missing. The implications for the Axis Mundi and for us humans in the middle.

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Audio-recordings Poetry 

The mystical marriage, the finale of the Iron John Story.

11 Oct 202012 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 130 Views 0 Comments Audio recordings

The Mystical marriage.

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Audio-recordings Poetry 

The apothecary shop of prose. Remedies for unsettled Souls.

10 Oct 202024 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 1632 Views A phial of words to sooth the Soul, Healing, healing and sovereignty, I am not a mechanism, poems, poetry, The wind one brilliant day

The human Soul sometime requires a draft of medicine to return Soul to the centre of our being.

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Audio-recordings Poetry 

Poem. The wind one brilliant day Antonio Machado

10 Oct 202010 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 96 Views 0 Comments

  The Wind, One Brilliant Day   The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of

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Audio-recordings Iron John Chapters 

Audio. The narrative of the whole Iron John story

4 Oct 202029 Nov 2020 Sam Sleeman 115 Views 0 Comments A Rite of passage story, audio, Audio-recording, Iron John, The narrative Iron John, the way out of the labyrinth

The Story of Iron John. The narrative.

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Recent Posts

  • The maiden King Roberty Bly and Marion Woodman’s version Chapter 3
  • The Maiden Czar Chapter 02
  • The lizard in the fire Narrative, Michael Meade’s version
  • Newsletter Post for Christmas December 2020
  • Violence in our land, Where is our outrage??

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The Maiden Czar Chapters

  • The Maiden Czar or the Pin Chapter 01
  • The maiden King Roberty Bly and Marion Woodman’s version Chapter 3
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