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Radiant Quotes on storytelling

Storytelling, practiced with full consciousness and an oxygenated sense of responsibility, is one of the most dangerous and liberating of human activities.

Ben Okri - A Way of Being Free

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The Dark of the Woods:
Rites of Passage Tales

by Terri Windling

In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood," writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to trans-formation and redemption.

A journey through the dark of the woods is a motif common to fairy tales: young heroes set off through the perilous forest in order to reach their destiny, or they find themselves abandoned there, cast off and left for dead.

The road is long and treacherous, prowled by wolves, ghosts, and wizards — but helpers also appear along the way, good fairies and animal guides, often cloaked in unlikely disguises. The hero's task is to tell friend from foe, and to keep walking steadily onward

The inner king is the one in us who knows what we want to do for the rest of our lives, or the rest of the month, or the rest of the day....... The inner king is connect with our fir of purpose and passion

Robert Bly

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Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.”

— Joseph Campbell

Come away, human child
To the water
Come away, human child
To the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand

W.B. Yeats - Come Away Human Child

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RADIANT STORYTELLING

Storytelling for spiritual direction

David Whyte:

It's All Storytelling

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From the outer landscape to the inner one, Whyte takes us on a poetic journey of the soul.

He describes the Irish culture as one that refuses to choose one context over another. He says, "One of the useful things about the Irish psyche, or the Celtic psyche you could say including Scotland, Wales and Brittainy is that it refuses to choose one context over all the others.

Whereas the old native Celtic tradition would tell you that you can actually hold many different things together, but you must have a deep interior focus in order to actually do it.

He tells the story of the Tuatha De Dannan who are supposed to have lived betwixt and between things and how, in the Irish myth, they turned sideways and disappeared.

Whyte encourages us with his storytelling and poetry to live in the world without engaging in conversations that make you too small for yourself; to not be pinned down by the names others put on us or, we put on ourselves.

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Theatre of the Imagination

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The cycles of life and death
How the language of symbols translates into everyday life
Community, and healing the homesickness within the soul
How to stop your destructive inner critic
Reclaiming the bodies we were born with
Facing the cycles of change in a relationship
Agelessness and theaerial view of the elder
How to awaken the1, 000 eyes of your intuition
Transformation through the four vital steps to forgiveness
The power of the Divine Child
Finding courage and the sacred center of the psyche
When others try to silence you: how to claim your strength.

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

The Theatre of the Imagination

HEARTACLES FOR LIFE

Tony Cuckson is a storyteller and Anam cara. He tells stories about the people in Irish mythology known as the Tuatha de Dannan. These are the people who were once the Shining Ones and who were driven underground by the invading Milesians. The Tuatha de Dannan are the people who then became the fairie folk known as the little people.

As a storyteller Tony takes this metaphor and turns it into stories for modern minds and hearts. Using storytelling, songs and poetry from Ireland and beyond you are invited to reclaim the beauty that you are. Tony invites this return to beauty and power through writing and in live performance using storytelling, song and poetry.

You are invited to awaken the beauty that has been asleep within you. This storyteller reminds you that the story of Sleeping Beauty is really your story. He reminds you of your radiance and that this radiance is natural to your humanity.

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reaking out of the prison of the intellect so that you can feast on the life of the heart at one with its unlimited creative intelligence.

e willing to go to the magic mirror you have within you and learn that the answer to the question "Who is the fairest of them all? " I am!"

eckoning to you is a voice, calling you by your name to return to what we in Ireland call the Homeplace. This is your place of true belonging and unlimited creative potential.

e done with the inner voice of the critic that entangles you and your courage in doubt, keeping you out of your birthright of being wedded to beauty.

Storytelling for the spiritual journey

egin to learn a new language. This is a language that will take you into places that are beyond time and space. In Ireland these are called threshold places. These are places of transformation.

eauty is truth, said the mystic poet Keats. Discover through poetry, story and song this truth that is awaiting to awaken in you. It never goes away and cannot be lost in the dark wood of doubt and despair. It is however mostly forgotten.

In each and every moment you are telling a story. You cannot be a non storyteller. The choices you make now is your future story. However, to make the right choice you have to be rightly informed.

Discover through the power of storytelling, song, poetry and writing the

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Let this storyteller and Anamcara share what it is to know that which is deep within you and which is awaiting for you to answer the call. This is the call to imagine yourself beyond the limit.

THE ANAMCARA INVITATION

The invitation to Soul Friendship is always available. It is FREE for everyone. There is, however, a price to pay. You are invited to trade rags for riches. You are invited to give away doubts, fears, sorrows and other rags for the diamond that you already are. There is no greater invitation than to become an Anam Cara - a friend to your soul.

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