Fairy tales aren’t just for children – they carry ancient wisdom for navigating change, grief, and the unknown. Discover how stories can support your personal transformation and awaken your inner strength.
We believe that fairy tales and play belong to childhood: how shortsighted! As if we ever lived in any stage of life without stories or play.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stories as Gateways to the Invisible
Stories allow us to enter the anima mundi - the soul of the world - and connect with the unconscious.
They have always held a magnetic pull on the human spirit. Through story, we access something beyond logic, something that helps us understand our own existence at a deeper level.
The messages hidden in stories are not only for children. They reach into us, awakening something ancient and wordless, something that lives not only in the conscious mind but deep in the body, the heart, and the subconscious.
The Power of the Unchanged Word
Stories are like living beings - changing them too much, simplifying or altering their essence, can sever their inner meaning. The symbols within them speak a language older than reason.
Distorting or diluting their core can make their wisdom less accessible.
“A fairy tale is not an escape from reality - it is a longing for it.”
Folke Tegetthoff
Fairy tales are not childish fantasies, nor are they sentimental distractions. They are archetypal maps, born from collective experience and ancient memory. They do not offer escape - they offer orientation.
Analyzing them only through intellect cuts off their transformative energy. We are not meant to dissect them, but to be moved by them - to let them work on us from within.
Meeting Our Shadows Through Story
Every true story invites us to meet ourselves - not just our dreams, but also our fears. Abandonment, loneliness, failure, and death are not abstract ideas. They are universal experiences, mirrored in every myth and fairy tale.
When these archetypal fears are approached with imagination, they stop being monsters and begin to show us hidden doorways:
- the golden key
- the healing forest
- the hidden path
- the water that renews
These are not metaphors to be explained, but inner symbols to be experienced.
The Forgotten Wisdom of Imagination
We all carry light and shadow. And we all long to give expression to both.
Imagination is not frivolous. It is essential. It helps us navigate the unknown. It allows us to feel our way through inner landscapes that cannot be mapped by logic alone.
Avoiding imagination - or neglecting symbolic expression - can silence the part of us that knows how to move through hardship with grace and creativity. Without it, we may lose access to our most essential human tools: resilience, adaptability, and soul-wisdom.
A Fire That Has Never Gone Out
We have always told stories.
In caves and temples. Around fires and family tables. Through songs, dances, pictures on walls.
Long before we wrote them down, stories were passed from mouth to mouth, heart to heart. The storyteller enters a different state of consciousness - and the listener is drawn into a shared vision, a world of images, emotion, and truth that lives beneath the surface of things.
This ritual is not lost. It is still alive. And we still need it.
We Remember Who We Are
In times of transition, we often lose the thread of who we are. Stories help us find it again.
They remind us that we are not alone in the dark. That others have walked before us - and that within us lies a strength waiting to be remembered.
Imagination is a guide. A compass. A healer.
And stories are the language it speaks.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.”
Albert Einstein