Our secret territory : the essence of storytelling

Simms, Laura. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781591811725 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1591811724 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: First Sentient Publications edition.
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Sentient Publications, 2011.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Crossing into the invisible : how the storyteller guides us into an unseen realm -- What storytelling means to me -- Summoning the realm of dream -- Seeing the invisible -- The secret practice -- T-boli dreaming: keeping the channels of a culture open -- Through the story's terror -- The lamplighter : the storyteller in the modern world -- Evil in the world : a discourse on a Hassidic tale -- Listening -- Discourse -- Tikkun : repair -- Another way of knowing : the world of an epic singing -- Misfortune's fortune -- A language of no words -- Natural interruptions -- Journey to Jerusalem -- Sudden story -- Context -- On listerning -- Afterword.