Transcending Fables

Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Transcending Fables is the luminous final volume in Linda A. Lavid’s Fables Trilogy — following Summoning Fablesand Illuminating Fables — and a cornerstone of her Chronicles of a Wandering Mind series.
In this concluding exploration, Lavid traces the evolution of storytelling from its primal origins beside the fire to its rebirth in the digital age. She begins where language itself began — with the night voice that comforted the tribe — and follows story’s long arc through myth, scripture, morality, printing, and algorithm. Each chapter reveals how narrative both shapes and reflects human consciousness: how it teaches, transforms, and survives.
Through lyrical prose and philosophical reflection, Lavid shows that every era — from clay tablet to AI — reimagines story anew, yet the same ember endures. Story becomes sacred, written, coded, and finally transcendent.
The final section, Story Transcendent, gathers fable, philosophy, and poetry into one closing ritual — a meditation on the flame that connects all tellers, listeners, and dreamers.
Part cultural history, part spiritual meditation, Transcending Fables is an invitation to remember the oldest truth of all: that story is not only what we make, but what makes us.