"Many prominent psychologists today are understanding the story as a
way of exploring the unconscious and a tool for making us ‘whole’. In
his writings on Re-visioning Psychology, Hillman stresses the
importance of experiencing myths “working intrapsychically within our
fantasies, and then through them into our ideas, systems of ideas,
feeling-values, moralities, and basic styles of consciousness.”3 C.P.
Estes, in her book Women who run with the Wolves, recognises the
healing power of storytelling, describing stories as ‘medicine’.4
Twelve-step recovery programmes, and the new discipline of journal
therapy, understand and work with the transforming, wholistic power of
storytelling."

. . .

"Storytelling as a pedagogical technique works with the more
expressive, imaginative ‘way of knowing’ or form of intelligence.
Until recently this ‘other’ way or form has lacked epistemological
support as a valid ‘intelligence’. But the last twenty five years has
seen a cognitive revolution of such major proportions that modern
learning theories now incorporate anything from two to eight
intelligences or ‘ways of knowing’.5"

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:30:51 -0700, ta wrote:

All very pretty but I do not buy it.

The story has been around long before any 'study'. The bible is a story
the mahabharata is a story, fables and tales. There are enough stories to
entice the imaginations of children, young or old.

Indeed the story is a powerful thing and in days of yore and far gone times
on Earth and today among many kinds of peoples - the storyteller was and is
of huge import to warriors and tribes and men.
Once a story is written down - it becomes a historical account or
literature - and is no longer a story in the true sense of the word. The
story has to be "told" not read. And it is the genius and talent of the
storyteller.

The storyteller can inspire and motivate men before they set out for a
mission or a war. Or indeed upon return of the men - battle weary and
tired - he can rejuvenate them.
But it is the talent of the storyteller to know which story to choose and
indeed how to tell it - as stories change depending on the requirements of
when the story is told and how times and peoples change.

Our Leader - is a fantastic Storyteller - and a few days ago he arrived for
a brief visit and told us the story of one of our previous missions.
He started with the words
"I remember the atmosphere at...

On Aug 7, 8:09 am, "THE BORG" heaven.co.uk> wrote:

"The Birth of Tragedy" by Nietzsche... Whereas Dionysianism [ie
archetypal Aryan religion] was based on works of theater claiming
allegorical truth, the Levantine religions were based on works of
literature claiming literal truth.