Author Archives: Story Practices

The self realisation of the spirals within is a way of understanding that basic chakra shapes pervade the living realities of perception and feeling.

African Art is based on ATR or African Traditional Religions. It is often depicted on wooden masks, ostrich eggs and wooden carvings. It represents the spirits of nature that African people look up to.

Stories of humans who are half plant, half snake and all intelligence abound in early folklore of humanity. Have we forgotten our post human roots?

The arts and crafts of India often depict carved fishes and birds in wood etc. These images of fishes and birds which are hollow and cool to hold help in unblocking our artistic aversion to non realistic depictions of the living world.

It is important to understand that a particular pattern, rhyme, and rhythm is needed to create nonsense storytelling.

Logic as a way to experience maths and science reality can be disrupted in the realm of nonsense storytelling to communicate language based ideas better.

A contemplative brood of dissimilar birds – to disrupt logic – the familiar and the more familiar along with the most familiar – must be brought in.

The Serpentine Tales

The cat was looking at a pool of water. It had a line of fishes The fishes were swimming in line and having fun. The cat watched them and resolved never to eat fishes again.