Story Medicine

I am feeling sad and lonely. It hangs heavy on me, but I try to bear
it lightly.

I meet Simon and he's playing with his son. He's a magical child. He crawls over to me, full of bright eyed curiosity and we play silly things for a while. Well, I make some faces at him, and he stares back
with big eyes, big smile and fat fingers that like to grab things. He cheers me for a while, but then I wander on. I'm looking for someone, someone who can cheer me. Babies are great cheer but they can't empathize with this sadness I feel,  at least I think they can't.

I meet my brother Joe, and he plays me some music, and I meet my
brother James and he shows me some of his latest musical instruments.
I meet Leanna and we chat for a while. I'm at a kind of house
gathering. Yoza is there and his little kids. I chat with Yoza and he
empathizes with me. He knows where my sadness is coming from. He gives
me a book to look at.

This is a magical book all about a prince who will come in the future, a hero god, a saviour of humanity. I see how he is born from the skies. He is called the Son of Man and the images that are used in this book are runes encoding magical symbols and meanings. Everything is beautifully drawn.

For the first few years of his life he is carried on a disc on four elephants.

Then he is taught by magical women the arts of magic and spells, and
as he grows up he becomes a powerful wizard prince.

This story is the remedy for my sadness. I am drawn into the story as
if I am living in it, and my sadness is left behind.