Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book builds and builds itself. To a certain extent, you have become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses -- or in biblical language, `God.' This is not fancy, it is fact. Since the inspiration comes from the unconscious, and since the unconscious minds of the people of any small society have much in common, what the shaman or seer brings forth is something that is waiting to be brought forth in everyone.

So when one hears the seer's story, one responds, "Aha! This is my story. This is something I had always wanted to say but wasn't able to say."

Dialyn, this is a wonderful quote, I would so love to be the seer, isn't that what being a writer is about? Shanna :-)

I love those moments when you read something that is your own heart and spirit put into words. Often they even deepen your own understanding of yourself or of whatever the writer is writing about. Kind of like when you've had a piece of a song running through your head all day but can't remember the rest of it, and then turn on the radio and there it is in its completeness.