What is a Story? The Nature of Story & Reality

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…