Salmon of Knowledge: Stories for Work,Llife, the Dark Shadow and Oneself

How can we develop deeper and more satisfying relationships with our work, our world, with others, and most of all with ourselves? How can we go beyond the current limited understanding of ‘wealth’ as the ownership of material possessions to a deeper recognition that true wealth embraces so much more than this? Two strands of human thought and experience point to possible ways of achieving deeper connection, awareness, and wealth. The first is cutting edge science with its notions of indivisibility and inter-connectedness found in quantum mechanics, relativity, complexity and systems theory. The second is the body of stories and analogies handed down from the great secular and spiritual wisdom traditions. There is far more overlap between these two strands than one might imagine. This collection contains well over 140 stories, from ancient to contemporary, from all points of the compass and organized by theme. The stories invite us to wake up, stop taking ourselves so damn seriously, look at the world from perspectives other than our own, and recognize that only by changing ourselves can we reconnect with what is truly important in life.