REPORTS TO AMFORTAS

This Is A Book About Stories. Plato Described Socrates Saying Remember The Stories For They Will Save You In The End. And It'S About Stories Within Stories. And It'S About Forgetting. About Losing Remembering And Finding. A Native American Once Told Me A Story Of Going Through The Woods Finding A Fork In The Trail And Deciding On One Of The Paths. He Discovered That The Trail Ended Nowhere And That From There It'S Best To Go Back To Where The Fork Was Rather Than To Try And Find Your Way From Where You Discovered An Error Which Is Very Much Like A Well-Known Middle Eastern Story Of Nasreddin Who When A Neighbor Found Him Crawling In His Front Yard Looking For Something And Asked Him What It Was He Said It Was A Key. The Neighbor Joined Him On The Ground Looking For It. And For A Long Time Not Finding It He Asked The Mullah Was Heu Sure He Dropped It Here? And The Mullah Said Oh No I Dropped It In The House. The Neighbor Said Why Are We Looking For It Here? The Mullah Replied Oh It'S Too Dark In The House. And It Is Also About Language. How Do We Decide What A Word Means And How It Travels From One Language To Another? The Great Storyteller Leo Tolstoy When Setting Himself The Task Of Understanding The Story Of The Gospels And Looking At The First Sentence Of John En Arche En O Logos And Noting That Logos Has Either Eleven Or Thirteen Chief Meanings (Which Could Boil Down To Four That Are Possible In The Context) And Then Finding What He Could Use In Russian Used Razumyenie Since It Actually Can Carry Those Four Possible Meanings. So We Can See The Undertaking Might Be Quite Complex.