Contents -- Introduction -- My Observation Position -- Flannery O'Conner and Old Thinking (Still Valid) About Story Work -- My Brother, the Neurolinguistic Programmer, and the Idea of Reframing Events -- The Physical Keeping of Emotion in the Body -- The Energy of the Body -- Monkey Mind -- The Work of Imagination in the Body and the Energy Around the Body -- Shamanic Soul Retrieval and a Digression About "The Knock of the Spirit" -- The Holographic Model of the Brain and the Universe -- Three Nods to the Goddess Tiamat/Mama Chaos -- Intent! Intent! and "Praying Rain" -- Time and the Storyteller -- Agency -- Making Art -- Paradox -- Further Practice: A Bibliography -- Ackowledgemen ts.