Stories are Powerful Medicine

"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in"
-Harold Goddard-

Story is powerful medicine. Stories require nothing from us other then that we show up, that we listen with deep ears. Life is a great treasure hunt for its buried nuggets of gold.

They call forth some of our grandest emotions, luring them out of the depth world and into the light of day. As a result, they help connect the archetypal world of the inside imaginal to the daylight world of consciousness.

Stories are thick with hidden codings that guide us through the murky waters of life. They flame our inner life into motion, especially when stuck in a cocoon of forgetting, denial or pain. Human connections are deeply nirtured in the realm of shared story.

Great Story, mythic story, allows us to see patterns of connection, symbols and metaphors that help us understand our life. When we align with story we team up with larger evolutionary forces that can carry us past the same old, same old into new ways of being. Even if we were to break down amidst the despair of the world, if we continue to honor and value story it will help to gift us with a deeper journey filled with patterns of understanding and connection.