The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling

Storytellers, reclaim your power to shape the future through stories. You are descendants of the bards and the wonder-workers.

Imagination dreams that which knowledge makes real. It could be said that imagination is the proto-reality.

Stories are the infinite seeds that we have brought with us through the millennia of walking the dust of the earth. They are our celestial pods.

All good stories are practical guides for living, or negative guides on how not to live.

they come from beyond, from some uncommon living, ever-evolving, universal storehouse of wisdom.

Stories are the highest technology of being.

We live in a time in which we are being told that the main things of value are the things of science and the things of technology. Our lives are being compressed into this technological reality. But it is worth remembering the many-sidedness of being human. Great evil befalls us when we restrict ourselves to just one side of our being.

Stories have also been used for evil. They have been used for the denigration, the demonisation, and the extermination of peoples.

The true danger of stories is that they tend to bypass reason. They can bypass intelligence and go straight to the subconscious. Why else have very intelligent people in the past believed such absurd things about other races?