Sam Sleeman
Iron John Chapters

Commentaries on the Iron John Story

The beginning of the Iron John story. The first part till the Golden Pond.

Chapter 004 and 005  Audio file, the narrative of the story right through.

Chapter  004            The Narrative: The first half.  Once upon a time, there was a King……TO  “You know a lot about gold but nothing about poverty you must leave me now.”

Chapter  00.           The first line of the story.  Once upon a time, there was a King who lived in a Castle next to an enormous forest”. The context that this line informs us of our context in this world.

Chapter  01.           The hunger for something wild. The king sends out hunters,  and the enigmatic line a    Hawk, and an Eagle flew over it.

Chapter  02.          The arrival of the adventurer. The Call to adventure the Hero’s journey begins. Meeting the Boy.

Chapter 03:            The Boy the Hunter adventurer and the dog. The conspiratorial wink.

Chapter 04/ 5         Bucketing out the pond, what binds the Wildman in the pond?    

Chapter 06             Who or what is the Wildman in the Iron John Story?

Chapter  07.           Chaining the Wildman. The Iron Cage. The Queen & the Key.

Chapter   08.          Loss of the Golden Ball. The loss of Soul. Three Days at the Cage. 

Chapter   09.           Stealing the Key. An act of rebellion. Defying the Status-quo. Separating from Mother.

Chapter   10.           Opening the cage. Skin in the game. Allowing wildness again in our life.

Chapter   11.            Arriving at the Golden Pond. The Great Mother, Nature. Finding our medicine, finding our own gold, learning about the Pond and the Great Mother.

Chapter  12             Finding the Gold in our hands. “When a finger turns to Gold”

Chapter 13              “A single hair turns to Gold” is lesson two for us in our path to Kingship.

Chapter 14             “A whole head of hair turned to Gold”. Coming to stand in our Golden Kingship.

“The devil’s sooty brother’s” story. Don’t show your  Gold to the false Innkeeper. With Audio file.

Iron John.             The Axis Mundi, the world tree, and the Parsifal story. Mankind’s expression of freewill

Chapter 15            Mentoring moments in the Iron John story. FRAP-ing and LAAMB-ing.

                             The end of the first book.

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