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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:07:47 +0000
X-cc: Cristy West Shalom. When Story reaches me, it is usually something beyond the words, beyond Ego, and certainly deeper than logic. It amazes me that we can tackel your question in this medium of faceless, worldwide media. Maybe it would help to give personal examples of how a story delivered the needed perspective or Zing for transformation. ( Sometimes I need to make-up words cuz I don't have the correct one.) Thanks for giving us a good place to focus at this special time.Nyanna Susan > In a message dated 1/6/02 2:45:42 PM, nyannatobin@ATT.NET writes: > > << This dream > reminded me that I have helpers. I just have to remember > to find them and ask. >> > > Dear Karen, Nyanna Susan et al.-- > > I find it so interesting that when I posed the question to this list about > the transformative power of story, most of the responses coming back so far > have related to people's dreams. So what does this suggest? Perhaps that we > all instinctively feel that story and dream come from the same deep > transformative source within the unconscious... ? Nevertheless I am also > reminded that in the horrific videotape of Ben Laden some weeks ago, he and > his central advisers were shown as giving central importance to dreams and > the dreaming mind.... A whole culture of death and destruction apparently > built around dreams. Well, lord knows, this has certainly caused > "transformations" to occur, for better or worse! But perhaps we need to be > cautious to make dreams alone our central guiding intelligence... Dreams > and the raw energy of the unconscious mind may form one important "vertical > axis" of creativity but perhaps we also need to consider some sort of > balance from a "horizontal axis" that, especially through story, can > establish vital connections to community, history, culture... > > Perhaps all this is too big a question to be considering so soon after the > holidays when we are all tuckered out. Still, I do wish others on the list > might take a crack at answering that question I posed before--i.e., to repeat: > > "What do we mean anyway when we speak of "transformation" and > how is this accomplished through story?" > > Cristy W. > > > > > | ||