Life itself is a story
We are God’s dream
reality is structured as a story
The story of the soul is a story
- We live many lives, each a story- shakespeare quote - “all men are players”
The Fall/Separation, we created our own demiurgic egoic story of separation, fear, guilt
- and now the story is of our long journey of awakening from the dream, of completing our heroic quest….
In the beginning was the Word All is the Logos, the Word, the speech of the divine - this creates EVERYTHING
The importance of myth to humanity and human beings
we need stories and a great story to orient us and structure our lives and give us a guide
the importance of a national spiritual/religous myth that unifies and gives purpose and direction - like the hebrew old testament stories
without sacred myths and stories we then create shallow ideological narratives, beliefs and stories - we become materialistic and obsessed with drama
the modern world is suffering from a lack of great stories, a lack of myth, imagination…. - and especially one great epic story that is the story of US, of our lives, our people, our past, present and future destiny…
Modernism, postmodernism, etc. - the breakdown of the old narratives and stories and myths The rapid pace of progress which causes people to throw out Tradition and myth and religion…..
Perhaps a necessary stage - letting go of the past so as to evolve and innovate - but it goes too far (pendulum analogy) Now is needed a synthesis. A remembering and restoring of our Tradition - myth, religion, spirit, lineage,….
The most successful movies and books of our time, and all times, are great epic stories
- LOTR, star wars, harry potter, ….
- arthurian legends, dante, homer,
- the bible, the gospels, …
People love a great story. We turn into little children who just want to close their eyes and hear a great story told by a great storyteller and for it to come alive in their imagination…
You are meant to see yourself as the hero of your own mythic story and quest, to have a divine purpose, to be heroic
But people are not taught this, not helped to be their true self and follow their passion adventure - and so, so many are miserable and doing things that they don’t like, and greedy for money and status as substitutes, and contributing to the Machine of this modern word….
The great story of all it is.
Story of the soul.
All and everything is a tale, and experience, story, a dream in the mind of God.
Unfolds and takes the narrative and the structure in the logic and the grammar of the story structure.
We are Storytellers and characters.
We are Created and we are sub creators
“real life” is nothing but a story, a dream But most of us most of the time are not dreaming consciously - and so it is often an unpleasant dream full of anxiety, fear, loss…….
Epic stories take the shape of a great battle between the forces of dark and light. The Hero must go on a great Quest to find something or destroy something or vanquish the dark lord……
The idea of the chosen one - YOU are the chosen one. You are the key, the catalyst, the only one who can do it, and if you fail then all fail - for you ARE the representative of the people.
incarnation Your incarnation into this world and this life is one iteration of the story. It is a multidimensional story of one soul having many incarnations simultaneously - and these selves dynamically influence one another…..
The idea that life is a story, and ultimately God is the author, but the human world and life is created by the demiurge, the fallen human ego and so it is imperfect and characterized by death, separation, etc. And the whole journey and point of it all is to wake up, forgive the illusion, return to Reality We are meant to be the Divine Son and co-creator of our Father - but the whole Fall happened when we wanted to be creator’s of ourselves, we wanted to be Father rather than eternally the Son….
The recent in vogue idea from scientific materialism that our reality is a simulation. Yes, it is, a simulation of consciousness that unfolds as a story.
The Divine Comedy Tolstoy said there is only two kinds of stories - a traveler sets forth or a stranger arrives in town Traditionally stories were either comedies or tragedies
Eucatastrophe - the sudden turn in which a tragedy turns into a comedy The Crucifxion and Resurrection of Christ as the ultimate Eucatastrophe and “Greatest Story ever told”
Dante’s title of his masterwork was just “Comedìa” - the “divine” was added later
All story’s end in “happily ever after” - if this isn’t the case yet, then you know the story is not over yet….
Initiation into Sacred Myth The point is for you to imbibe the myths and stories of humanity, and find your place in them, to find your place in the great story of humanity that we are in the midst of. The point is to write your own gospel, live your own myth, craft your own masterpiece….