Telling Our Stories

In the shamanic tradition, the hero/heroine’s journey begins with the call to adventure and culminates in the return journey. There is a departure from the community, from the center to beyond the edges, and a return to the community into the center. A story is always a circle.

In all cosmology of storytelling, the return is complete once the story is shared, brought back to the community, seeded in the land, and digested by the ecosystem of all relations. It is not only our human kin that needs to hear our stories but the trees of our land, the river that flows through it, the soil we step on…