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The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need Author:Robert Bly Poet, Robert Bly says parents make it clear there are certain parts of us they don?t like, ?you?re too noisy? ? One image is to say we take that part and put it into a bag. Our independence and feeling goes into the bag, the bag is getting heavy and two miles long?You could say we spend our life until we?re 20 deciding what to put into the bag,... more » and we spend the rest of our life trying to get it out again." Bonus: Robert Bly poet, storyteller and mythologist reminds us that the mythology we have inherited is often defective. One story reports that the very moment we are born a snake appears with us which the doctor throws out the window and, unknown to us, has been growing large in the forest. Just as the church refused to accept the reality Galileo saw in his telescope, literalists have removed from mythology, by refusing to include them, the dark soul images that nourished our ancestors.« less