Volume Six of The Lost and Found Season of the Most Pope Joey
Number One of Kids of Lower Utopia
Chapter One of Daffodil Eleven and Softdoor Scout Finnagain.
Page 7 - (Introduction By Brother rbear)

 

Introduction
By Brother rbear

What if you could be present when one of the Great Stories of humanity was first told? Present when one of the great Myths of the world first took breath from the mouth of its seer. Myth being the narrated constellation of human experience, observation, and insight by which countless numbers of human beings have charted the course of their lives through unnumbered generations.

What would it be like to be present when the Seer first became the Teller? When the Story Teller revealed, within the haphazard jumble of human struggle and turmoil, its exquisite Truth? And when the listeners sitting around the sacred fire realized that the Story told was the Truth within themselves.

We live, unfortunately, in a period of time when the Great Stories have mostly receded from discourse and awareness. Myth, and the introspection it requires, has been superseded by the thoughtless consumption of nutritionless religions with stale dogmas and demands of uncritical allegiance. The old stories have mostly passed away.

But, since you are reading this, you already Know that you are present at a new fire and at a new Feast where a Great Seer*, with a Great Story to tell, is ready to begin.

Toc Fetch is like no one I have ever known. He and I have been old friends since before we met and I am more in love with him, and more in awe of him with each passing year. Both he and I are beginning to be old men now, but Toc's work remains perennially new. Of course, Toc is not just a teller of the Story, he is an embodier of the Story. This book is the interweaving of picture and story that is without comparison. I cannot but presume that if you have this book in your hand you Already Know (or certainly suspect) how valuable are its contents.

If you get that (or even have a suspicion), then you Know that this is about That which Always Was, just under the surface of our lives, never revealing Itself except through the disguises we give it. And here It is, again, revealed in Mythic guise.

This is The Story told through the most mundane adventures of two friends, two young girls, not yet women and no longer children, who are poised on the threshold of the Dream. Trust your Self to hear the Story in their story. Trust your Eyes to see what is revealed to them, even behind the blindfold. Sit back and let a Great Story enter your life and show you what You already Know.

-rbear

*(Toc has protested my use of the term "Great Seer", but I have told him that his request for my written introduction doesn't give him authority to delete it. -rbear)