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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
The One Great Story
Book 0 is the threshold of the Royal Art: the Book of the Great Story, the mythic frame 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. Before the Opus becomes doctrine, lineage, initiation, or practice, it begins as Story.
- Story, Myth, & Reality
- The Great Story
- Story Metaphysics & Narrative Laws
- Dream, Awakening, & Redemption
- False Story & Anti-Story
- The Eternal Fable
- Dramatis Personae & Archetypal Powers
- The Structure of the Play
- The Hero: The Protagonist
- Narrative Architecture & The Grand Story of Time
- JRR Tolkien's Legendarium
- Fairy-Stories, Fantasy, & Sub-Creation
- Recovery, Escape, & Consolation
- Myth, Language, & Living Tradition
- The Quest & Its Elements
- Story Forms & Patterns
- Lore & Lineages
- Language, Word, & Creation
- Fairy Tales: The Perilous Realm
- The Deeper Dimensions of Story
Story, Myth, & Reality
What is a Story? The Nature of Story & RealityThe Reality of Fantasy: Myth is Truer than HistoryFantasy as Ontological DisclosureMyth & ConsciousnessSacred StorytellingThe Sacred Function of Storytelling & MythsEnchantment of One’s Reality-StoryThe Mythic High Fantasy RealmLiterature & The Story of ExistenceThe Play Within a Play: Story, Recursion, and Meta-NarrativeThe Fourth Wall: When the Story Becomes Aware of ItselfThe EpicGod Loves a StoryThe Great Tales Never End… And you are in itThe Great Story
The Great Story as the Meta-Frame of the Royal ArtThe One Great StoryOnce upon a time, in the beginning…The Eternal Story: Cosmic High Fantasy EpicThe Master Storyteller: Prime CreatorThe Author, the Character, and the ReaderThe Storyteller: MythweaverSub-Creation: Creating As A CreatorThe Book of Lost TalesMytheme, Memes - the fundamental narrative elements…Story Metaphysics & Narrative Laws
The Soul as a Narrative BeingThe Story in the SoulPlot & ProvidenceSynchronicityRepetition as Divine SignatureNarrative Laws of the WorldThe SceneSetting as Soul-LandscapeDream, Awakening, & Redemption
Dream as Unfinished StorySalvation as Re-readingSin as False StorytellingThe Narrator: Ego, Spirit, and the Voice of the StoryFalse Story & Anti-Story
The False Story of the AgeThe Danger of the False StoryThe Enemy as Anti-StoryCore Oppositions of the Mythic NarrativeThe Enemy of Story: Literalism, Reductionism, and the Death of MythThe Eternal Fable
The Beginning of the Story…The Eternal FableThe Sleeping PrincessThe War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of DarknessThe War in HeavenThe Dark TowerTruth vs. The LieThe RemnantThe Long Exile: The Middle of the StoryThe Mythic Structure of Time: Cycles, ages, prophecies, and eschatologyDramatis Personae & Archetypal Powers
Dramatis PersonaeThe Forces of LightThe Forces of DarknessAmbiguous FiguresArchetypal PowersSacred ObjectsPlaces and RealmsPilgrimage and Sacred Geography
Narrative TropesDeeper Mythic ElementsArchetypal Characters in The StoryMeeting A New CharacterThe Sons of Light & the Sons of DarknessThe Dark Lord: The AdversaryThe Children of DarknessThe Shadow & The Dark LordBelialEvil Shapeshifting Reptilians