It was, above all, the authentic life he lived that instructs us. When he said that myths are clues to our deepest spiritual potential, able to lead us to delight, illumination, and even rapture, he spoke as one who had been to the places he was inviting others to visit. What did draw me to him? Wisdom, yes; he was very wise. And learning; he did indeed “know the vast sweep of our panoramic past as few men have ever known it.” But there was more. A story’s the way to tell it. He was a man with a thousand stories.
