Excerpts
Enjoys these free teachings from the Storyteller. These are short excerpts selected from over 1000 classes. The classes don’t follow any particular order, so pick the one that intrigues you the most.
This discourse explores the relationship between joy and pleasure, revealing them as the twin forces guiding human decisions and creativity. Joy is the soul’s recognition of creation, while pleasure belongs to the body and affirms survival. Through participation—physical or emotional—both align, transforming complexity and distraction into harmony between body and soul.
Explore the difference between morals and ethics—and how society shapes what you believe is right. Are your values truly yours, or were they assigned to you?
We often confuse physical pleasure with emotional joy. But true joy arises not from carnal sensations, but from purposeful participation and perception.
Reflect on how societal habits tie us to the past, while true growth requires embracing uncertainty and participation. As the world shifts—economically, energetically, and collectively—value is moving from money to meaningful contribution. Lasting change begins when we release rigid expectations and open ourselves to a more connected and creative future.
Explores how your energy and emotions—expressed through attitude—shape interactions more than words. Rather than reacting to others’ behavior, we can choose to respond with awareness, seeing attitudes as coping mechanisms, not personal threats. True participation arises from relevance and intention, not defensiveness. Attitude, then, becomes a tool for purposeful living.
This teaching reframes paradise not as perfection, but as fleeting moments of peace, surprise, and choice. True paradise lies not in absolutes but in the freedom to explore life’s full spectrum—beyond black and white, into Technicolor. It invites us to let go of rigid right/wrong thinking and embrace uncertainty as the fertile ground where joy and possibility thrive.
This teaching explains the mind as a pattern of past-based, chemically-driven responses layered over the brain’s physical functions. Our thoughts are rarely about the present moment—they’re shaped by memory, biology, and emotional chemistry. Understanding this interplay reveals how nutrition, fear, and environment affect mental clarity and offers insight into true awareness.
Your true nature is a union of soul and body—spiritual and animal, conscious and unconscious. You are far more expansive than you appear, radiating emotion and energy that shape your reality. Beneath memory, instinct, and reason lies your purpose: to create and to connect. Understanding this unity opens the door to living with greater clarity, balance, and presence.
This exploration reveals that devas, nature spirits, and spirit guides are not separate beings but energetic expressions within the fabric of creation. We exist among them, and even act as devas between our souls and bodies. Through awareness, cooperation, and conscience, we can better understand our role in this interconnected, living universe.
This story uses parable to explain the soul as a creator beyond human concepts like pain, time, or emotion. Just as a child builds sandcastles unaware of how the grains affect its skin, the soul creates experiences without perceiving the physical or emotional consequences we feel.
Children in the Forest is a metaphor for self-esteem and perception. Two children each believe they’ve found the most beautiful part of the forest—one sees a glittering rock, the other a winding brook. Each believes their discovery is the best, unwilling to accept the other's perspective. The story illustrates about self-esteem, the nature of truth, and more.
This is a parable about personal responsibility, transformation, and balance. A once-wealthy but reckless camel trader loses everything, including his last sickly camel. A wise rug merchant offers him a second chance—on the condition that he follows a strict rule