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
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
- The Eternal Fable
- Dramatis Personae & Archetypal Powers
- Narrative Architecture & The Grand Story of Time
- JRR Tolkien's Legendarium
- The Quest & Its Elements
- Story Forms & Patterns
- Lore & Lineages
- Language, Word, & Creation
- Fairy Tales: The Perilous Realm
- The Deeper Dimensions of Story