compassion Archives - Sam Sleeman

Newsletter 20 12 23 A Johannesburg Christmas story.

20 December 2023 Sam Sleeman 1335 Views across time, Big city, bread, Castle Quo, Child redeemer, Christ, Christmas, cleaning, community, compassion, fear of darkness, for storytellers, giving, Healing, King, lonely, Malchizedick, peace, sadness, saviour, sharing, sick, small boy, soul, soul retrieval, water, why storytelling, Wounds

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.

Essays

A Johannesburg Christmas story.

15 December 2019 Sam Sleeman 1332 Views across time, Big city, bread, Castle Quo, Child redeemer, Christ, Christmas, cleaning, community, compassion, fear of darkness, for storytellers, giving, Healing, King, lonely, Malchizedick, peace, sadness, saviour, sharing, sick, small boy, soul, soul retrieval, water, why storytelling, Wounds

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.

Rites of passage

The way of the Shaman storyteller.

26 June 2019 Sam Sleeman 1061 Views bound, compassion, reclaim, rights of passage, ritual space, Shadow, shaman, soul, soul retrieval, the other world, transformation, why storytelling, Wounds

The task of the Shaman is to set free the energy bound up in our stories. the story of our own shadows. To bring us into the presence of our own divine self, to suspend shame, to grant acceptance of our own souls love for us. To heal.