A few days ago I wanted to give this
book to a friend of mine. I purchased a
Kindle copy of it and I sent it to her
as a gift.
However, Amazon refused to deliver it.
I don't like censorship at all. I think
that it holds humanity back when we
censor things. We have to be able to
decide for ourselves what's right and
what's wrong for us to read. As a
result, a few friends of mine and I are
going to read this book so that my
friend and others who may be living in
places where they can't purchase or read
this book; they can hear the story. So
this is in the great tradition of
storytelling, which is how we educate our
young. I'm reading today from Chapter 3:
"Nosing Out the Facts; the Retrieval of
Intuition as Initiation"-- [The basic story is] "The Doll in Her Pocket:
Vasalisa th Wise." [Begins at P. 74 of the hardbound edition.] Intuition is the treasure of a woman's
Psyche. It is like a divining instrument,
and like a crystal through which one can
see with uncanny interior vision. It is 
like a wise old woman, who is with you
always; who tells you exactly what the
matter is, tells you exactly where you
need to go left or right. It is a form of
"The One Who Knows, old _La Que Sabe_,
The Wild Woman.
It is a form of "The One Who Knows," old
La Que Sabe, The Wild Woman. Dedicated
storytellers are always under some Hill
up to their knees in story dust,
brushing away centuries of dirt, digging
under overlays of culture and conquests
numbering every frieze and fresco of
story they can find. Sometimes the story
has been reduced to powder. Sometimes
portions and details are missing or rubbed out.
Often the form is intact, but the
coloring is destroyed. But even so every
dig holds hope for finding an entire body
of story intact and unbroken. The
following tale is just such an
incredible ... the following tale is just
such an incredible treasure. The old
Russian tale "Vasalisa." The old Russian
tale "Vasalisa," is a woman's initiation
story with few essential bones astray. It
is about the realization that is ...  it
is about the realization that most
things are not as they seem. As women we call upon our intuition and instincts in
order to sniff things out. We use all our
senses to writing the truth from things
We use all our senses to ring the truth
from things; to extract nourishment from
ideas; to see what there is to see.
We use all our senses to ring the truth
from things to extract nourishment from
ideas; to see what there is to see; know
what ...know what there is to know; to be the
keepers of the creative fire; and to have
an intimate ... and to have the intimate
knowing about the life-death-life cycles
of all nature. This is an initiated woman
This is an initiated woman. The Vasalisa
story is told in Russia, Romania,
Yugoslavia, Poland and throughout the
Baltic countries. Sometimes it is called
"The Doll,"  sometimes "Vasalisa the Wise." We find evidence of its archetypal roots
dating back at least to the old horse
goddess cults which predate classical
Greek culture. This tale carries ages old
psychic mapping about induction into the
underworld of the wide ...  this tale carries
ages old psychic mapping.
This tale...  this tale carries ages old
psychic mapping about induction into the
underworld of the wild female God. It is
about infusing human women with wild
woman's primary instinctual power:
Intuition. This tale was given to me ...  this
tale was given to me by Aunt Kathé. [In the reader's case, by his Mother.]  It
begins ...  it begins with one of the old ...
It begins with one of the oldest
storytelling ...  It begins with one of
the oldest storytelling devices known, 
"Once there was and once there was not,"
"Once there was and once there was not."
This paradoxical phrase is meant to
alert the soul of the listener that this
story takes place in the world between
worlds, where nothing is as it first
seems. So let us begin.
