the nature of story itself
—the realization that myth is not just something we tell but something we live inside.
What is a Story? – The fundamental structure of narrative and meaning.
A story is what life is, what your life is. The arc of a being coming into being and living a life and then dying and the end of the story
Everything from beginning to end
A tracing of a journey of adventure, discovery, conflict and resolution but it has to go somewhere, there needs to be something entertaining to follow and participate in
Reality is a Story
It is structure as a story, like a story
It unfolds with the logic of a dream
Reality is Structured Like a Story.
The arc of our lives follows the Hero’s Journey, the Quest, the Trial, the Victory, and the Return
We Live Inside A Story
“We live inside a dream” - Twin Peaks, the Return
you are already inside a story.
The world is a mythic landscape, and you are both its hero and storyteller.
You are the writer, the director,
the protagonist, the antagonist, the love interest/beloved,
you are all the characters you are the audience
You are the projector, the light, the film, the screen…
The Story
Reality is not merely made of matter, mechanism, and sequence. It is made of meaning, pattern, image, relation, drama, and unfolding.
Existence is narratively structured.
Time itself is the medium of a story.
Conscious life is experienced as plot, memory, desire, crisis, transformation, and destiny.
Myth is therefore a higher order of truth: the form in which reality becomes intelligible to consciousness.
The world is not a machine accidentally producing consciousness. It is a meaningful, imaginal, dramatic order in which consciousness awakens to itself through story.
God is the source of that order.
The soul lives within it as exile, pilgrim, hero, dreamer, witness, and eventual co-heir of the Kingdom.