Calling up your genie

Genevieve Boast
Sep 5, 2018 · 3 min read

When we were kids, many of us would have heard the story of the genie that lived in a magic lamp and would appear when you rubbed it to grant you three wishes. Few of us however, would have believed the truth hidden within the metaphor of this ‘fairy-tale’.

Every story has a grain of truth within it, and yet it is partial.

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Genevieve Boast

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Founder of Beyond Human Stories, an organisation that redefines and restories what it means to be human in our times of transition on Earth.

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