Surfing the Bardo


The Bardo Thödol [Tibetan Book of the Dead] ... is a book that will only open itself to spiritual understanding, and this is a capacity which no man is born with, but which he can only acquire through special training and special experience. It is good that such to all intents and purposes useless books exist. They are meant for those queer folk who no longer set much store by the uses, aims, and meaning of present-day civilisation.
— Carl Jung


These Images make up the visual reference file for my in-progress LOST fanfiction, Surfing the Bardo. STB describes life on the Island, and off, after Hugo Reyes ("Hurley") takes over as Protector.

STB isn't posted anywhere (yet), because I'm still writing it.

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7th February 2012

We have a bequest of stories, tales from the old storytellers, some of whose names we know, but some not. The storytellers go back and back, to a clearing in the forest where a great fire burns, and the old shamans dance and sing, for our heritage of stories began in fire, magic, the spirit world. And that is where it is held, today.

… The storyteller is deep inside every one of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is ravaged by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise. But the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us -for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
— Doris Lessing, 2007 Nobel Prize (literature) acceptance speech
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