they come from beyond, from some uncommon living, ever-evolving, universal storehouse of wisdom.

We live in a time in which we are being told that the main things of value are the things of science and the things of technology. Our lives are being compressed into this technological reality. But it is worth remembering the many-sidedness of being human. Great evil befalls us when we restrict ourselves to just one side of our being.

Stories are the infinite seeds that we have brought with us through the millennia of walking the dust of the earth. They are our celestial pods.

The historian deals with the past, but the true storyteller works with the future.

Stories are not innocent. We should be careful about the stories we listen to. We should be sceptical and critical. We should always ask questions about them and seek to make a distinction in our minds between good and false stories.

A nation is shaped by the stories its children are told. A nation is sustained by the stories it tells itself. The good stories can liberate its potential, or help it face the dragons of its evils.

We want to travel the untravelled road. We should learn to tell untold stories; stories that wander off the high road; stories like roads untaken. This is the only cure for the despair that all the stories have been told, that there are no new stories under the sun. All the high road stories have been told, but not the hidden roads stories that

Stories are the highest technology of being.

All good stories are practical guides for living, or negative guides on how not to live.