Teaching Stories

The meaning of the teaching story cannot be unravelled by ordinary intellectual methods alone. The closest that we can come to describing its effect is to say that it connects with a part of the individual which cannot be reached by any other convention. It establishes in him or in her a means of communication with a non verbalized truth beyond the customary limitations of our familiar dimensions. Some teaching stories cannot now be reclaimed because of the literary and traditionalistic, even ideological, processing to which they have been subjected. This tale is given here in a form which is innocent of this and other kinds of maltreatment.