To the Grail Castle: Just down the road a little way, turn left and just over the drawbridge

fisherkingThe Fisher King.

I recommend the movie and the myth.

The King provides directions for everyone’s healing:

…a place of comfort and safety is not far away. The specific instructions are to go down the road – whatever road one is involved with at the moment – turn left, which is to say go toward the unconscious or the world of imagination an fantasy, cross the drawbridge – the division between our conscious world and the inner world of imagination – and one will be in the Grail castle, the miraculous place of healing…

A detail of the story is encouraging: Parsifal need only ask the question; he is not required to answer it. Once the question is asked the answer comes from a source greater than his store of personal wisdom.

You get to visit the Castle every night when you sleep.

- – The Fisher King & the Handless Maiden: Understanding the Wounded Feeling Function in Masculine and Feminine Psychology, Robert A. Johnson

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About Les Stewart

Les Stewart is an independent Canadian franchise researcher. He founded the WikidFranchise.org site and the FranchiseFool weblog. Stewart was an expert witness for Ontario's first franchise law. He has his MBA and BA from The University of Western Ontario.
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