Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Story Telling Ritual
I think the playful is is key. So much of the religious narrative and situation is so heavy. And at some point i was interested in story telling, and i thought id be interested in theatre and in drama,. Because i was working in a high school with kids who couldn't care less about any of us. But they did care if you got them on their feet. I began understanding the role of masks are both literal and figurative. The as if of story and the imagine of story telling and myth allows our soul and our mind to interact with possibilities that just plain facts and legal thinking is opposed to more legendary thinking. There's something very passionate and playful, also as serious as it
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