Christian Wonder Tales - with Dr. Martin Shaw

[@JonathanPageau]

Sign up for Dr. Martin Shaw's first-ever live online course, Christian Wonder Tales, starting November 12th. This 4-week, 8-hour course is hosted on the Symbolic World Circle Community. Patrons at the Involved level or higher get 10% off, apply your discount code at checkout: www.thesymbolicworld.com/courses/christian-wonder-tales Mythographer, writer, and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw takes us deep into the heart of what he calls Christian Wonder Tales. Profoundly mythic, these teaching stories range from the early saints through to the grandeur of the Round Table and Arthurian tradition. Shaw emphasises these stories as remerging providentially on time for the perils of modern life. Filled with vocation, sacrifice, and courage, these are an inheritance many of us simply didn’t know we had.

[@PilgrimTim]

Hey Jonathan, I absolutely love the artwork done for the Christian Wonder Tales course. Any chance that would be available as a t-shirt or poster in the near future? Thanks, Tim

[@ALavin-en1kr]

Native Americans went, and maybe still do, on vision quests. Isolation to meet one’s real self is innate in humans. One has to meet and conquer one’s personal shadow; the snake or the dragon within in order to be liberated from the limited ego self and realize the cosmic self.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

Also the symbolism of the Catholic mass is the ultimate story; bread and wine symbolizing body and blood which symbolizes the ultimate mystery which is transubstantiation.

[@PaulVanderKlay]

There are few people as fun to have a conversation with than Martin. So much refreshment.

[@strangetheology]

He is becoming one of my favorite people

[@AugustasKunc]

Please do a talk with him! We don't get enough Shaw content around here anyways.

[@dawnmuir5052]

@@PaulVanderKlay thanks to you, too, Paul, for being an integral connecting link in this growing network, and for my favourite descriptor "this little corner" (I know you don't take credit, but I'm giving it anyways 🙂) We have a small Estuary group here in Winnipeg now, which I started up but have since passed on to others, and hope it continues to grow. Lots of good things happening as the re-awakening to enchantment and spiritual reality continues to spread, and it's exciting to be a part of it. Hope to chat with you some day!

[@orthodoxboomergrandma3561]

My story is a book, out soon Lord Willing! “Confessions of a Controlaholic: Don’t Destroy Your Second Marriage Too!” My journey from 70s Berkeley to a Hindu cult for 13 years, a clinical psychology PhD, meeting Christ! Then through ten years Protestant, 8 years RC before God allowed me to come near His Holy Orthodox Church where I sit at 66 repenting joyfully!

[@olgakarpushina492]

Wow! Quite a journey. Funny how many people find Orthodoxy via Hindu stuff.

[@shellyweinhold6745]

It sounds like I'm on a similar path as you. See my comment above.

[@DerekJFiedler]

"Christian Wondertales" - I love it.

[@danmar007]

"The soul is not fed entirely by logic ... " Thank God, otherwise most people would go hungry!

[@cellospot]

I LOVE the story of Parsifal! Redemption and self-sacrifice are divine themes, and in part this story was a seed that lead me to Christ. Like Parsifal, I also need forgiveness and I pray that God gives me the strength to sacrifice myself for the Ultimate Good, for Christ.

[@ukcj4jonesy896]

“A constant low-level humiliation” is so great. We need to figure out how to “embrace” this. What a great discussion.

[@stevendouglas3781]

Martin Shaw is incredible. Would highly recommend watching one of his storytelling performances. The Fox Woman and the Hunter is a good start.

[@mountbrocken]

An idea or a concept or reason itself are strategies we employee to reconcile or make sense of a partially presented image or story which is our lives on this footstool we call the fallen world.

[@shellyweinhold6745]

This may be the only thing that saves my faith. Feeling very disillusioned and jaded with Christianity. Converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, but it hasn't been enough. So much toxicity and things that are problematic in this church. I may be on my way to Orthodoxy, but I think I need to wander in the world of story and myth for a while before I can even do that. I can't stand modernity and most of modern Christians of all persuasions. I feel like I'm a closet pantheistic pagan, but perhaps Christian Wonder Tales could be the bridge to help me find wonder in my faith again, or discover it for the first time.

[@Bella11264]

I was so excited for this!!! ❤❤❤

[@dawnmuir5052]

Wonderful conversation, as always. ❤ So many insights, wise gems, and a pervasive atmosphere of wonder and joy in your ongoing discovery of ever more truth and beauty. It has been an immense gift to watch the "Team" emerging from the trees around the world and converging in "this little corner of the internet" over the past years, and a great privilege to participate in this expanding movement as an avid observer of your conversations and other work. Thank you!

[@AmyMaris]

What a treat! Shaw can turn a single phrase that sends my imagination spinning.

[@christopherlamanna2501]

I needed to hear this intro at this moment…I’m making honey! There’s no such thing as wasted time…out Father makes use of it all…keep moving 🙏

[@SiccazHD]

I cant wait to listen to this!!!!!

[@IosuamacaMhadaidh]

A nod to medieval pole arms got me😅👍

[@user-md3yo7ge9b]

Thank you both! You two have been enriching my life and my faith so much!

[@strangetheology]

Stories are meant to prepare the soul but when we neglect the stewardship of stories we open ourselves up to deception.

[@maryadjalal5435]

In my Ruthenian church, I heard the legend that when the Holy Family fled to Egypt, their tracks were covered up by friendly spiders. Has anyone else ever heard of that ?

[@ThomasLimon-nv3dl]

No, I haven’t. Thank you for telling me. I’m excited to learn about it.

[@Ledhoven]

That struck me “you never hear someone say the one thing I can’t stand is a good story”

[@kellygooding9100]

I have been blessed today 🙏 two of my favorites, both incredibly gifted in the art of conversation 🔥 so much love, God bless you both 💖🕊️

[@asap397]

I literally yelled YES when I heard Dr. Shaw is leading a course! Definitely signing up for that one

[@TheDonovanMcCormick]

The two swords, sell your cloak and buy a sword part was always strange to me too until I really looked at it and it's to fulfill the prophecy that he will be counted among the transgressors so he has to tell the disciples to bring the swords so they will transgress against the law when the others come to take him by attacking the official. He knows what will happen but has to get them to bring the swords which will then allow them to do what needs to happen for the prophecy. The parts of the Gospels where Jesus does something seemingly out of character often seems to be to fulfill a certain prophecy that must come true about the messiah. Love this one, always great to have Martin on with you.

[@JonCrs10]

Wonder Tale makes me think of Wonder Ridebooks from Kamen Rider Saber. And honestly I'd totally love to see that show's designs reworked into a longer, deerper, less hindered by COVID and being a weekly series that wraps up in a year. It only scratched the surface of swordsmen with the power of stories and symbolism.

[@dccopi]

He’s exactly what you’d think a mythologist would look like

[@ScottMannion]

you must initiate, friends, before it is too late

[@truincanada]

Myth told me everything I needed to know about the conditions of life. Christianity showed me how to live it'...Word. Precisely my path past Campbell.

[@ibelieve3111]

Thanks

[@AmyMaris]

Failure can make honey. See he just did it.

[@marthinusdawidvanrooyen2508]

Something will happen in the second hour of the Divine Liturgy...... Dude, every single time.

[@CommonVisionUS]

Foundations of Discipleship HERE

[@BasedPhilosophyMom]

Groggily opened my phone and saw this started....tfw you realize you're on a different time zone then the poster. 😂

[@sandybassie1220]

Listening to this at physio. This.

[@citymonkmusic]

Let’s go 😤😤😤

[@jonnyschaff7068]

I feel catfished by Dr. Martin with that thumbnail

[@ISAYWORDS1]

I would be currious what stories in the Scandinavian pantheon he was talking about that are beyond redemption, or too suffused with witchcraft as he said

[@Jim-Mc]

Fun fact: the whole thumbnail photo reveals his boots are yellow.

[@PaulKapow]

I'm going to be telling the story of the ramayana to the other people from my childhood orphanage. Diwali lands on the same day as Halloween and All saints Day this year 🪔🎃🕯️

[@ElonMuskrat-my8jy]

Sounds demonically disgusting. Hard pass.

[@profeh3346]

This was way too short! ❤

[@iubestefrumosul1]

❤

[@sandybassie1220]

Pinpricks of eternity

[@truincanada]

Mick Fleetwood without the drumsticks as a storyteller rather using The Jaw as he posits. This will be maggy.

[@paulr5246]

Is Dr. Martin the secret brother of Robbin Williams?

[@ISAYWORDS1]

When and where can we watch your gospel series?

[@Shotzeethegamer]

God tells Abram HE will make his name great. This is the only way we can have our cake and eat it too.

[@Brad-RB]

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