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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:10:35 +1100
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The aborigines of Australia have stories that cannot be told unless you a= re of that tribe and live with the totem that is associated with that particular 'country'. Or until you have been deemed ready to hear it by = the elders, who are the custodians. Some stories are deep secrets and only known to a chosen few. It is felt that the stories have power and are dangerous if held in the hearts of those not yet ready. =0D =0D In some respects I think we too carry stories that wait for the moment to reveal themselves. If they are uttered too soon, in my experience, they are in danger of losing their potency. I am often aware of the desire to speak of a story that is only just begin to stir, and sometimes even have the restraint to hold it still and quiet, giving it time to form.=0D =0D Its good to be in dialogue with you,=0D Donna=0D =0D =0D Donna Jacobs Sife =0D Storyteller/writer/educator=0D 0417241418=0D www.donnajacobsife.cjb.net=0D =0D "stories reveal the meaning without committing the error of defining it." Hannah Arendt.=0D -------Original Message-------=0D =0D From: storydevi@earthlink.net=0D Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 6:34:16 PM=0D
=0D What an interesting question. What made you think about this...=0D =0D it seems to me that there are stories, and ways of telling these=0D stories, that open us up and wean us from fixed tales we tell=0D ourselves. These fixed tales, sometimes ingested so insidiously and=0D secretly that we are totally ruled by them without remembering that we=0D have constructed them and believe in them. The tales that unravel the=0D fixation, awaken awareness, provide ceaseless alternatives and disturb=0D the habits of comfortable self destruction.=0D =0D And then there are tales that shut us down or merely entertain us so=0D that we are not penetrated at all and can hold firm our own opinions and=0D fears, etc.. where concept meets concept -=0D =0D there are also secret tales that need to do their work and demand time=0D and process as they ripen and refresh with image and unnerving dream or=0D a kind of needed pleasure of unfolding journey knowledge. these may=0D remain within for a long time marinating before being told.=0D =0D is this what you were thinking about.=0D Laura=0D =0D -------------------------------=0D To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingsto= ry=0D to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu=0D -------------------------------=0D =2E ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||