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A Fairy Tale of A Good but Endangered Boy

VonSchönwerth’s “The Knight’s Sash” is a story about an intrepid son without a father, who continually does his duty, eventually wins love and devotion.  We summarize and then discuss the story.
A hunter’s widow and her son, Hans, were always wandering around, but they espied a castle in the forest, and the giant living there eventually married his mother.  He loved hunting, and one day he saw a tree with no branches, and a knight’s sash at the top that he got.  Written on it was: “Whoever puts me on will have superhuman strength.”  He shot a deer and carried it home.  The giant and the mother started worrying about the boy’s strength, and the giant feigned illness and they told Hans the only cure was lioness's milk.
Hans went to a lioness in a nearby cave, who was standing in a submissive gesture, and he threw away his weapons and embraced her.  She followed him home and his parents cooked up another mission.
 
Not far away, a giant’s castle supposedly had apples growing on its grounds that would cure his stepfather.  The giant was out robbing and looting, and Hans picked some apples, and then broke into the castle and found a princess tied up, stark naked.  He started a bonfire in the yard and that attracted soldiers from her country, who offered to take Hans with them, but he refused, for his father was sick.
Hans’ mother noticed the sash, and she prepared a bath for him so he would take it off.  The giant poked out Hans’ eyes and threw him out of the castle.  Hans traveled with his lioness, and almost died of thirst, but the lioness jumped on the cart of a passing wine merchant and revived him with the wine.  The merchant took Hans to the city, and the princess noticed him from her window, and she ran down, embraced him, and took him to an oculist who made him artificial eyes.  Her father the king was happy to have a successor, but after the wedding, the people rioted, not wanting to be led by a blind man.  
Hans and his wife wandered.  One day they came to a brook, and they witnessed two mice, one blind being led by the other, who washed the blind one’s eyes, and it regained its sight.  The princess did the same for Hans, and they returned joyfully to the town.  They lived happily until Hans died, whereupon the lioness lay down in his grave until she too died.
 
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Short Breathing Meditation
04:55 Summary of “The Knight’s Sash”
12:05 A Short Story Chock full of Information and Drama
14:07 A Giant Threatened by Hans
15:56 Hans, Son of a Hunter
18:05 Hans and His Mother Find a Castle in the Woods 
25:00 Nonviolent Hans
25:54 A Giant and a Bad Father
27:50 A Bad Father Threatened by Hans
32:14 Maturing, Dutiful Hans, is Thrown Out
37:53 Hans, Guileless with His Parents, Gets a Lion 
45:50 Why Aren’t the Princess and the Lioness Ever Seen Together?
47:56 The Marauding Giant and His Dead Father
51:13 The Tale’s Good Father & Hans’ Brokenness
52:45 Hans is Helped by his Wife
54:34 The Stark Naked Woman & Hans’ Bonfire
1:00:45 Hans Finally SEES at the Story’s End
1:03:30 Hans’ Power from Lowly Creatures
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

Acceptance of Folly & Death

LL and I do a short breathing meditation, then a zoom out contemplation.  After checking in about recent challenges, we discuss Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book 12, Entry 36, the last in the book, seemingly shortly before his own death, which discusses one’s place in the cosmos and the relation to death.  
 
Man, thou hast been a citizen in this great state [the world];121 what difference does it make to thee whether for five years [or three]? for that which is conformable to the laws is just for all. Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature who brought thee into it? the same as if a prætor who has employed an actor dismisses him from the stage.122⁠—“But I have not finished the five acts, but only three of them.”⁠—Thou sayest well, but in life the three acts are the whole drama; for what shall be a complete drama is determined by him who was once the cause of its composition, and now of its dissolution: but thou art the cause of neither. Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
 
Gratitude to Standard eBooks for the translation: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditations/george-long/text/single-page#book-12
 
00:00  Introduction
00:47 Invitation to do an Exercise Snack
01:23 Brief Breathing Meditation
08:07 Zoom Out Contemplation
16:02 Reflection on Zooming Out
18:10 Spirituality Without Dogma? 
22:23 Daily Spirituality Despite Bad Decisions
33:20 Anger is Usually a Secondary Emotion
35:17 Magical Thinking in Difficult Situations
40:50 Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations,” Last Entry: “The god who lets you go is at peace with you.”
48:27 Coming to Terms with Death & Chuang-Tzu’s Dialogue with a Skull
53:37 Near-Death Experiences (NDE) & Acceptance
 
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The Bearskin and Vulnerability (Clip)

The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest full of thieves and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest, full of thieves, and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.
In life, in spiritual development, it is a mystery what will happen next. 
Sometimes we are saved by the feminine.  Goldchild’s wife talks to her father to save her husband.
(A Clip from the Episode “The Gold Children, by the Brothers Grimm”)
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

"The Gold Children," by the Brothers Grimm

A fisherman catches a gold fish, which makes a deal with him: he’ll have a nice big house if he lets the fish go, on the condition he tell no one how he got the house.  The man objects: and what’ll I have to eat?  The fish says the cupboards will be full.
 
Back home, his wife, decked out in finery, itches with curiosity, and he eventually tells her, and their house disappears.  This happens once more, but on the third time, the fish has the man take the fish home, cut him up, and distribute him, making two gold children, horses, and lilies.  
 
His gold children, itching to leave, are cautioned by their worried father.  “I must and will go!”  
 
They come to an inn, where they are jeered at.  One returns home and the other goes on.  He comes to a forest, which is thick with thieves, and the people warn him.  “I must and will go on!”  
 
Both horse and man clothed in bearskin, he ventures into the darkness.  Within, he hears voices on either side of a bush, debating whether to rob him, but they allow the seemingly worthless victim to go on.  
 
Out of the forest now, he meets the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and asks her to marry him.  She agrees, and they are betrothed.  But then her father returns, and seeing Gold Man’s rough accoutrement, he intends to kill him, but his daughter intercedes.  Still, he must peek behind the curtain, and the next morning sees a magnificent gold man beside discarded bearskins.  
 
But the happy husband, following a dream, decides to hunt a stag.  His worried wife objects.  “I must and will go on!”  
 
In the woods again, the stag just escapes his aim, but a curious cottage catches his attention.  At the door, a witch asks him what he is doing there so late, and her little dog yips at him incessantly.  He threatens it, and she touches him with her forefinger, turning him to stone.
 
Back home, the other gold man sees the gold lily droop, and he goes out to save his kin.  At the cottage, he threatens to shoot the witch, and she touches the statue with her forefinger, returning him to human form.  The long-lost brothers embrace and return to their respective homes, and live happily the rest of their lives.
 
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00:00 Reading of the Grimm’s “The Gold Children”
11:00 The Wife’s Arrogant Restlessness
12:23 The Father-in-Law Doesn’t Kill the Golden Opportunity
13:49 The Gold Fish’s Sacrifice
15:45 The Fisherman, and Adam and Eve
17:30 Similarities and Differences to “The Fisherman and His Wife”
18:08 The Golden Tulips, Horses, & Children
19:23 The Golden Children Go out into the World
20:15 The Golden Brothers Separate
21:15 The Dangerous Journey
21:48 The Bearskin
28:58 The Father’s Proof
30:15 The Golden Fish is the Story’s Throughline
30:41 Losing the Thread
39:00 Dr. Goldchild and Mr. Goldchild
41:15 The Grimm’s Dreams & Immovable Stone
45:00 The Timid Brother’s Boldness

Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths (Clip)

In the fairy tale time logic, the fisherman's son practically becomes a priest after he is born, and after he leaves the house he doesn't see his parents again.  But he is not done with the watery bargain he is doomed within from birth.  
When he makes it to the castle, he is shown in royal garment, signalling he is ready to be the heir to the kingdom.  But he is still not united with the feminine--either of his wife, the princess, or the mermaid he is owed to.  
Now when he goes out hunting, in spite of his wife's warnings, he is dragged underwater by the cthonic feminine mermaid.  (He also forgets his mother's warnings.)
 
And with that, the contract made by his father is fulfilled.
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The Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood

“Little Red Cap:” A little girl, beloved by her grandmother and known for her red cap, is sent by her mother to bring her grandmother a meal.  Little Cap assures her mother she’ll follow all directions, and goes off on the trail.  
 
She is not afraid of the wolf when she sees him, and he peppers her with questions, learning of her destination, where he’ll get two victims.  They walk together and he points out the natural life around them she is not paying attention to.  She raises her eyes and runs after nosegay after nosegay off the path for her grandmother, and the wolf runs ahead of her.
 
At G-ma’s house, the wolf pretends he’s Cap, gaining entry into grandmother’s cottage, devours the old woman and disguises himself as her.  Little Cap, arms full of flowers, is surprised to see the door open, crying “good morning” as her mother had admonished, and walks in.  The famous dialogue proceeds, with the little girl noticing the wolf’s features, crescendoing into his devouring her.  
 
Wolf, sated, snores loudly, drawing the attention of the Woodsman, who goes to check on grandmother.  He snips open the carnivore’s stomach and his meal pops out.  Little Cap fetches stones, and they fill the wolf’s belly with them and he falls dead.  Grandmother is revived with the cake and wine her granddaughter brought.
 
Another time, Cap took cakes to her grandmother and was approached by another wolf, and they shut the old Greybeard out after she arrived, and he lurked.  Grandmother got Red Cap to carry sausage water outside and pour it into the trough, and the wolf, smelling it, slipped off the roof and drowned in the trough.  And Little Red Cap was free of the wolf menace.
 
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Little Red Riding Hood Reading
08:59 Beloved Little Girl Goes Out to Visit Grandmother
10:23 Mother Sends Riding Hood Off
12:10 Naïve Hood
14:21 The Wolf’s Knowledge
16:04 Finally, Red Cap Feels Unease
17:33 Stories End with Her Being Eaten
20:02 Crafty Red Riding Hood
20:51 A Didactic Tale
22:20 Wolf vs Red Cap
22:52 Red Cap’s Innocence and the Wolf’s Lust
26:08 The Wolf’s Sinning
28:05 The Hunter vs. the Wolf
28:38 The Female Characters Weaknesses
30:01 This Tale Warned You
32:50 The Second Wolf & Sausages
34:30 The Black & White Contrasts of this Story Heighten its Drama
 
(A Clip from the Episode “The Red Silk Ribbon” by Franx Xavier Von Schönwerth)
 
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The Mermaid’s Manipulation (Clip)

The mermaid's deal with the fisherman: she gives him an abundant catch without telling him, and then takes it away unless he'll agree to her demand.  In order to get his livelihood back he must sacrifice his child to her.  He appeals to a higher authority in a Christian society, and this forstalls the child offering.  These complexities and moral ambiguities remind me of great power negotiations, which, unlike those within a country and a system of laws, are more like those done in a state of nature.
(A Clip from the Episode “The Red Silk Ribbon” by Franx Xavier Von Schönwerth)
 
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Ancient Greek Theater was Nothing Like Our Own (Clip)

Why Dionysus May Be the Patron of Theater: A well-told story will shake you and has the power of psychological transformation.  A death to your former self.  A communal experience with a large part of those you grew up with and knew well, seeing a story that you knew deeply, with the reflection of your reactions in the chorus on stage.  It seems that Greek theater could be a transformative religious experience. 
 
(A Clip from the episode “Dionysus: Death, Rebirth, Transformation”)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
Background Photo by Alexandro Pasqualicchio on Unsplash
Statue Photo by MIGUEL BAIXAULI on Unsplash
 
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Von Schönwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”

A fisherman employed by a Count that paid him well for how big his catches were suddenly stopped catching fish and was let go.  Sat out on water, weeping.  Mermaid came to him and said she was the one who gave him all the fish and then took them away, and that if he wanted more he’d have to give her something he didn’t know he had.  He agreed and caught a large load.
Went home and shocked his wife with the news– she told him she was with child.  They were saddened but said they’d make the boy be a man of the cloth, and comforted themselves with the catch, which the man brought to the Count and thereby became re-employed.  
When the boy, whom they named Lucas, was of age, he took the vows, but he could not perform his first sermon because he was promised to the Mermaid.  So he became a cooper (maker and repairer of casks and tubs) and went on the road with that.
One day he saw a bear, a fox, a falcon and an ant quarreling over how to divide a horse’s carcass.  Lucas gave the fore- and hindquarters to the bear, the back to the fox, the innards to the falcon and the head to the ant.  He walked away but the bear sent the fox after him to express their gratitude.  The animals gave him the power to change into any of their forms at will.  He burst out laughing and went on.
To test his power, when he came upon some partridges pecking at grain Lucas turned into a fox and got as many of the birds as he could carry.  He then went on and came to an inn, where he had the birds roasted.  After he went to sleep behind the stove.  Four men entered and started playing cards, and one amassed quite a small fortune.  Lucas became an ant, crawled over, transformed into a bear and overturned the table, scattering the money and frightening the cardplayers into fleeing.  
Lucas took his “catch” back on the road and came to a town with a black flag and people in mourning.  A king had three beautiful daughters and had decided to make the middle his heir, but the sisters looked so alike that people could not tell them apart.  Anyone who could choose the middle could marry her, but if he failed, he’d be executed.  Many had tried unsuccessfully, and that was why the town was in mourning.
Lucas decided to try his hand, and he espied in the castle, which was surrounded by a deep moat, a garden, and in it three beautiful girls.  He flew as a falcon into it and allowed one to capture him.  She put him into a golden cage in her room and went to sleep, and he emerged as a man in splendid clothing and took her hand.  He professed her love to her and she said she was the middle.  She tied a red silk ribbon around her finger to distinguish her from her sisters.
The next day, Lucas showed up at the castle to claim his bride.  The king and others mourned for this handsome lad to be the next victim of the executioner, who was getting ready off to the side.  But when the three daughters were presented, the middle stepped forward slightly and he saw the ribbon.  Everyone rejoiced at his pick and he was made heir and they lived together happily for years.
 
One day Lucas wanted to go off hunting, but his wife had a bad premonition and asked him not to go, but he insisted.  Carrying a deer he’d killed, he ignored his mother’s warning to stay away from water, and he was snatched below by a mermaid.  The wife heard the news and mourned him at the stream, and the mermaid came up and said not to worry, that he was happy.  She asked to see her husband and she was shown his face, offering her golden comb, and by giving away her ring, then her slipper, he was allowed to progressively emerge until he was in his wife’s hand, and can you imagine, he then turned into a falcon and escaped.
The mermaid disappeared and came back and blew blue sand into the face of the queen, who turned into a dragon.  The kingdom was again in trouble, and the king announced the need for help throughout the land.  A magician came and asked if the princess could endure the difficult cure.  Three ovens of progressive heat were procured, and she was put into each one, emerging first with soft skin, then split out of the skin, then naked as herself, each time cooled with water.  Lucas threw his cape on her and they lived happily ever after now that the mermaid no longer had claim to them.
 
00:00 Introduction to VonSchönwerth’s Newly Discovered Tales
03:04 Summoning of the Muse for Odysseus, Another Lost Man
04:49 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”
11:05 The Mermaid’s Blackmail
15:36 Nature She Giveth and She Taketh Away
17:12 From Priest to Caskmaker, Lucas Struggles on the Mermaid’s Line 
21:01 Lucas and the Four Animals 
28:01 Interest in the Wisdom of the People
29:10 A Wily Man Searching for Higher Things
32:49 Getting in Touch with the Father
36:31 Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths
42:07 The Princess and the Mermaid
46:11 End of the Story: The Prince Must Be Drowned
51:33 Complications and Cross Forms in Stories
57:57 Folktales and the Unknowns of Parenting
1:00:46 You Have to Offer Something Real in Life, Something Vital
1:05:29 The Warning of the Mermaid

Communism and Strong Men (Clip)

We talk of the danger of applying strict logic to every situation, without using discernment.  But we live in a world with a lot of mystery to our brains.  So you must have wisdom to best know how, when, and how much to apply logic.  Our conversation meanders to Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” where there is a rigorous discipline around the use of words.  Ian opines that there is an overemphasis on belonging in this society, and he contrasts this with strong man fascism.  
(From a discussion on Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood: “Little John Lives with the Sheriff”)
 
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The Episode Playlist:
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.