Sam Sleeman

Castle Quo

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Newsletter 20 12 23 A Johannesburg Christmas story.

In the Christian world, Christians celebrated the birth of the child redeemer. We as children once also have that expectation placed on us by those who have preceded us.

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Why Storytelling?

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

The return of the Inner king, squaring the circle, the Mystical Marriage, and they “lived happily ever after” seems to describe the purpose of the second half of life. The return to sovereignty and the Ego’s alliance with soul.

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Rites of passage

A deeper look at Jack the Beanstalk and Iron John for our youth.

Across space and across time, between here and Castle Quo (read the status quo) – I hear the anguished cries of women and children; I hear the complaints of men, I hear the cries of our planet, the spaceship earth…

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Jack and Bean Stalk Chapters 03 The back story.

The back story of Jack, his widowed mother, his father and of course the Beanstalk. And how the Giant fits into all of that

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The Half Giantess Chapters

The Half Giantess. Chapter 06 Final chapter. Dressing for dinner and the return home.

How Giants dress for dinner and use their wealth to separate themselves from the hoi polloi. returning home keeping mum.

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The Half Giantess Chapters

The Half Giantess. Chapter 05. Preparing dinner.

The first energy that our collective Mothers demand from boys is the witchy/bitchy feminine energy.  The next thing to go when there is too much Mother is Fathering. When the Mother makes an alliance with the boy. The second energy that is demanded by the status quo is our connection to soul.

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Essays

A Johannesburg Christmas story.

In the Christian world, Christians celebrated the birth of the child redeemer. We as children once also have that expectation placed on us by those who have preceded us.

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The Half Giantess Chapters

The Half Giantess. Chapter 03 The Lake of tears.

This lake is filled with the silent tears shed as we mutilated our soul by repression and denial, and actual acts of soul betrayal, tears that were never shed never seen, in this world. These are the silent tears of men and women, boys and girls as they cut away sometimes the best parts of themselves in order to be acceptable, to be “nice” to be a good boy or girl, to be loved, to be praised, to be admired to fit in by parents, peers, lovers, spouses, bosses the status quo.

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