These stories come from a long tradition of spiritual storytelling. Stories have been used for thousands of years to elucidate spiritual truths. Teachers from all ages and religions have found that stories are uniquely suited to this task.

How do you teach a fish about the sky? The journey of spiritual evolution often involves taking a leap into the unknown. The knowledge we have now will not help us understand what is coming next. It’s at this point that we need stories. With their symbolism and playfulness, stories can explain the unexplainable.

These stories don’t espouse a specific religious viewpoint, but rather seek to guide the listener to open up to life. And what does that mean? To live each day with love and courage; to question everything we think we know so that we can come closer to the truth about ourselves.

And what is that truth?

That we are divine beings here on Earth having a human experience. That everything that happens to us is really happening for us, such that we can grow closer to the giant that we really are.

You are not here to struggle and suffer. You are here to unfold a precious jewel: the “hidden treasure” that so many of the old stories speak about. The revealing of this “real you” is the ultimate purpose of this site.

Let’s fill the journey home with delight.

The mythic core of our culture has collapsed. In the last few hundred years we’ve done away with most of the old stories that we previously lived by. And whereas our outer, material lives have improved immensely during this time, our inner lives have been thrown into turmoil.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, we had no words for the world around us. But as we developed language, we started to tell stories. And we used those stories to define who we were, what the world meant and why we were here.

For thousands and thousands of years, stories helped to create our view of ourselves and our world. Our brains became tuned to stories, for a specific kind of meaning-making. Our brains are still tuned to stories. And that’s one of the problems we now face.

Today we are still looking to stories to define who we are, where we belong and what the purpose of life is. But the vacuum left by the collapse of the old stories has been filled by many new narratives.

Television and movies tell us that we only deserve love when we are beautiful and successful, and that money can measure the worth of anything in the world, including people.

Advertising tells us that we are what we buy and that the purpose of life is to consume stuff.

Science tells us that we are merely a physical body, that our consciousness is a by-product of chemical reactions in our brain, and that the purpose of all this is unclear.

Most of the stories around us now reflect the surface-level everyday world that we live in. As our mythic vocabulary shrinks we have fewer and fewer ways of talking about what is unseen and mysterious, both in the universe and in ourselves.

When we find less and less of our inner life reflected back to us in the stories we hear, we can feel alienated from our own depths and believe that no-one else has the internal struggles we have.

But when life is challenging, we need to draw on our inner resources. And when the stories in our life do not affirm those resources, we are weakened and less able to respond.

We are living in times of great upheaval and change, and the challenges we face call for great wisdom, compassion and creativity. More than ever we need the stories around us to affirm our inner strength and our limitless potential.

Stories will do this when they :

• Reflect our inner dilemmas back to us and address those dilemmas in intuitive and non-rational ways.

• Engage the subsconscious mind by using the language of symbolism.

• Show characters attaining wisdom, thus giving us a felt sense of how to access that wisdom ourselves.

• Are entertaining and well told, so that listening to them is easy and enjoyable.

Stories that have these four elements will support us to feel at home in ourselves and at home in the universe.