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Sam Sleeman

Sam Sleeman

Shamanic Storyteller

Sam Sleeman

Shamanic Storyteller

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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 vertical direction 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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The Moon Palace
Stories The Moon Palace 

The Moon Palace

12 Apr 20205 Dec 2020 Sam Sleeman
The Frog Bride. a shame.
Stories 

The Frog Bride. a shame.

21 Jul 202020 Aug 2020 Sam Sleeman
Iron John Chapter 04  5 and Chapter 6 The Bucketing of the pond and what binds the Wildman in the pond.
Iron John Chapters 

Iron John Chapter 04 5 and Chapter 6 The Bucketing of the pond and what binds the Wildman in the pond.

16 Jun 20204 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 0
Iron John Chapter 05 The narrative. Book two The road less travelled
Iron John Chapters 

Iron John Chapter 05 The narrative. Book two The road less travelled

5 Feb 202029 Jun 2020 Sam Sleeman
Why Storytelling? 

The Hero’s journey. The journey from head to Heart.

16 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 Sam Sleeman 0
News letter 11th August. 2020 Women’s Month.
Newsletter posts 

News letter 11th August. 2020 Women’s Month.

8 Aug 202011 Aug 2020 Sam Sleeman 0
Men Standing up.
Events 

Men Standing up.

5 Sep 201911 Nov 2019 Sam Sleeman
Iron John Chapter 08 The loss of the Golden Ball.
Iron John Chapters 

Iron John Chapter 08 The loss of the Golden Ball.

29 Mar 20204 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 0
2nd Call to staff NWTA 69 September 12th till 15th 2019
Events 

2nd Call to staff NWTA 69 September 12th till 15th 2019

15 Jun 201915 Jun 2019 Sam Sleeman
Poets know about the “Other”. The hidden one that always walks beside us.
Poetry 

Poets know about the “Other”. The hidden one that always walks beside us.

9 Jun 201911 Nov 2019 Sam Sleeman 0
The Maiden Czar chapters 

The maiden King Roberty Bly and Marion Woodman’s version Chapter 3

8 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Sam Sleeman 0

There is a book by Robert Bly and Marion Woodman called the Maiden King and well as a video workshop on the whole story I recommend both. I have included it here because this story is important for our relationships. Our relation with the Ego and Soul and the hero quest of Ego for Soul.

Stories The Maiden Czar 

The Maiden Czar Chapter 02

31 Dec 20208 Jan 2021 Sam Sleeman 0

This story carries us into a realm the enables us to see the effect of the absent father on the developing Ego (Ivan), the glamourous stepmother,(the female captured by the status quo) the false tutor,(the status quo). the capture of the tutor by the promises of the status quo. The Soul in the form of Vasilisa,

The lizard in the fire Narrative, Michael Meade’s version
The lizard in the fire The Lizard in the Fire Chapters 

The lizard in the fire Narrative, Michael Meade’s version

27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 Sam Sleeman

The Lizard in the fire narrative. Michael Meade’s version

Iron John Chapters Uncategorized 

Iron John Chapter 008 How the beginning of the story describes the collapse of the Axis Mundi.

28 Oct 202028 Oct 2020 Sam Sleeman 48 Views 0 Comments

What the beginning of the Iron John story tells us about the current state of the Axis Mundi. The tree

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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 105 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 70 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 116 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 266 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 132 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 1634 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 116 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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