About this episode
The episode explores the art of storytelling and its role in creating harmony, featuring discussions on various narratives and cultural figures.
“To love disharmony back into harmony creates a greater harmony than existed before!” Jupiter and the craft of Liberating Story… We live in a Story-Telling Creation- Everything telling us its story by its color, song, rhythm, and if we simply approached the world with informed reverent curiosity – our species would rejoin the Guiding Narrative…”Tell me your story & I will spiral it forth…” Jupiter and the lineage of story-telling- just returned from worthy arduous journey to Morocco, suffused with so many stories….re-combobulating, as be we all…. Honoring Jupiter, Idries Shayh, and his son Tahir Shah…. Whose books we be proffering as thankyou gifts for pledging to KPFA/KPFK /Pacifica. “Caravan of Dreams” by Idries Shah And “In Arabian Night- A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams” by Tahir Shah And always – Alf Lyla wa Layla – “A Thousand ands One Nights.” In which Scheherazade, quintessential liberating folk hero -liberates women, men, the land, even the crazed tyrant….the entire atmospheric circumstance….whoise bastion be handed to us all… To cultivate the craft of complexity, irony…. To be deeply informed of the world’s corrupt creepitude – and love it anyway….Art of Blessing.. Many…
People in this episode
Host: KPFA
Topics covered
- storytelling
- Jupiter
- narrative
- harmony
- politics
- art
- cultural commentary
Keywords
- storytelling
- Jupiter
- harmony
- narrative
- politics
- Idries Shah
- Tahir Shah
- Maya Angelou
- Algeria
- Morocco
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: KPFK, Pacifica
Books & works: Caravan of Dreams, In Arabian Night- A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams, A Thousand and One Nights
Places: Morocco, Algeria
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