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Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’

Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’ by John Keats (1891), Letter to his brother Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making.’ Then you will find out the use of the world… I say ‘Soul making’ Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence – There may be intelligences or sparks […] Essay

A Wondrous Fellow Appears Out of the Darkness – Part II

Part II of The Way of the Fool: the Fool appears as a guide out of the darkness, and what it means to recognise oneself among those who belong to him. Story

The Father and the Mother Make a Cage for the Boy

The Boy's parents — erratic Mothers, clockwork Fathers — build a cage around him: a story of the labels and expectations that quietly enclose a child. Story

The Boy Jumps Ship

The Boy has been at sea all his life without knowing it. The day he wakes on the deck and sees the ship for the first time, he jumps. Library

The rose celebrates by falling apart.

Rumi says just being in a body and sentient is rapture. Just being here is a cause for celebration. And a cause for grief too. Though grief is also a form of joy. The rose celebrates by falling apart. Foil by foil falling to the ground. And the cloud celebrates by weeping. Story

The Soul Phone Won’t Stop Ringing

The Boy paces a hallway that will not let him arrive, between the bedrooms of his family, as the soul's phone rings and rings with news of death. Library

Suffering is unnecessary. But one has to suffer before he is able to realise that this is so.

“Once I thought that I had been wounded as no man ever had. Because I felt thus I vowed to write this book. But long before I began the book the wound had healed. Since I had sworn to fulfil my task I reopened the horrible wound. Let me put it another way . . […] Story

The Right Time for Coffee But Not for the Boy

'I don't have to make you packed lunches to love you,' says the Mother. A story of a boy who learns to fend for himself, and of love measured out. Library

A Narcissist’s Prayer

That didn’t happen.And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.And if it was, that’s not a big deal.And if it is, that’s not my fault.And if it was, I didn’t mean it.And if I did… You deserved it. anonymous, found at https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/4nymz1/a_narcissists_prayer/, accessed 23.03.2020 Story

Of Grey Eyes Staring Black Holes Into the Wall

A scene from the Boy's childhood: the warmth of bedtime and being read to, and the grey eyes that stare black holes into the wall, slipping out of the shared world into an inner one. Story

The Scalding Porridge Remedy for Alleged Sibling Rivalry

A breakfast-table scene from the Boy's early childhood: a pot of piping-hot porridge, three small children, and a first reckoning with justice. Story

The Boy Slips Out of Himself

The Boy walks away from his family, closes his bedroom door and listens at the keyhole: a story of the secret, forbidden half-dark where he slips out of himself. Library

The impeded stream is the one that sings

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ~ Wendell Berry Poem

Bits and Pieces of the Soul

A boy sits on the floor before a heap of shards and takes the broken pile for the centre of his life. Story

The Tale of Two Tomorrows

A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows. Story

The Lifer

Short Story About the Awakening to an Imprisonment

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