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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare, The Tempest "Time is the moving image of eternity." - Plato, Timaeus 37d
In which reality itself is understood as creation, dream, quest, exile, revelation, and return. It gathers story, myth, archetype, fantasy, language, prophecy, and sacred time into one opening vision.
Existence can be experienced as a Great Story. The soul is simultaneously a participant in that story and a consciousness capable of awakening to a reality beyond its apparent drama.
- I. The One Great Story
- II. The Nature of Story, Myth & Reality
- III. The Dream and the Divine Drama
- IV. The Theatre of the World
- V. The Divine Storyteller and the Creative Word
- VI. The Eternal Fable
- VII. Dramatis Personae and Archetypal Powers
- VIII. The Grammar of Narrative
- IX. Mythopoeia, Tolkien and the Art of Fantasy
- X. Fairy Tales and the Perilous Realm
- XI. Providence, Destiny and Sacred Time
- XII. The True Story, the False Story and the Way of Awakening
- XIII. Myth as Initiation and a Way of Life
- XIV. The Divine Comedy, Restoration and Bardic Return