Origin Story

The Magic Tortoise

Chapter One — Welcome Home

The Magic Tortoise cover — an ancient tortoise on a flat rock at the center of a firelit circle deep in an evergreen forest, children wrapped in blankets sitting around him.

This is the story I wrote before I had a name for what I was teaching.

It began years ago as a tale for young children — a tortoise, a fire, a circle deep in an evergreen forest — and grew, over time, into the taproot of the practice you find on this site. Everything here Our Belonging Signature™ is the working out of what the tortoise says in this story.

Chapter One is called Welcome Home. It reads as complete on its own. More chapters will follow when they are ready.

Read aloud, in my own voice. Nothing is asked of you to listen. Sit down, press play, and be with it.

— James

Listen · Chapter 1

Welcome Home

About 12 minutes · read aloud by the author

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