Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is composed of revelations from the life of a world famous storyteller including extensive travel and projects spanning thirty years. It helps readers understand the power of storytelling as a profound and unique art form combining modern solo theatre, spoken literature, spirituality, and direct oral tradition akin to ancient ritual. The book is shaped with stories and poems and a remarkable fairytale that weaves in and out of a life of experiences: rescuing ex-child soldiers from a devastating war; working with epic singers, Native American storytellers and Tibetan meditation masters; designing a playground; telling tales to Roma mothers and children; and saving a zoo in Northern Romania. This is a unique combination of personal story, myth, memoir, and fairytales that will interest anyone involved in storytelling as performance; those using narrative in healing, business, or education; peacemakers and humanitarians; writers; anyone seeking a deeper spiritual practice; and those hoping to understand the psychology of personal memoir, myth and symbol, the importance of anthropology in our cultural life, and how communities are affected by the stories we tell.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Crossing into the Invisible: How the Storyteller Guides Us into an Unseen Realm (p. 1)
• What Storytelling Means to Me (p. 11)
• Summoning the Realm of Dream (p. 17)
• Seeing the Invisible (p. 25)
• The Secret Practice (p. 31)
• T'Boli Dreaming: Keeping the Channels of a Culture Open (p. 41)
• Through the Story's Terror (p. 51)
• The Lamplighter: The Storyteller in the Modern World (p. 61)
• Evil in the World: A Discourse on a Hassidic Tale (p. 71)
• Another Way of Knowing: The World of an Epic Singer (p. 83)
• Misfortune's Fortune (p. 95)
• A Language of No Words: Translation (p. 103)
• Natural Interruptions (p. 111)
• Journey to Jerusalem: City of Gold (p. 117)
• Sudden Story (p. 129)
• Deadly Play (p. 141)
• Strong Medicine (p. 149)
• Monkey Mind (p. 157)
• On Listening (p. 163)
• Afterword (p. 175)
• Notes (p. 180)
• Acknowledgments (p. 182)