Make the Frame Bigger

David Price
5 min readOct 1, 2024
Lucy Campbell

The past doesn’t get left behind. It travels with us, and at certain times, it wants attention. So the therapeutic idea that interests me is to take elements of the personal story, and put them in a mythological context, make the frame of the story bigger, and all of a sudden it becomes possible to see that the neglected, abandoned child in me is connected to the myths of the orphans.

And the orphans are often the ones that, because the wound is so big, they’re open to big energies coming in. And they often become the visionaries, the ones who can see a world that includes them, because they felt they were in a world that they were rejected from. And so it doesn’t change the facts, or the elements of the story, it changes the context in which they’re understood.

~ Michael Meade

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…I discovered a quote from the pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones. He said that for every invention that comes from science he would paint an angel.

You are responsible to the soul of the people you serve.

You cannot be humble about what is gold.

By being big you take on the role of the inspirer and serve their psyche.

~ Thomas Moore

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.