Stories, Myth, Belief, Mystery and Manifestations
We love stories. We see, hear, create,
concoct, derive and deliver stories. The history of homo sapiens is story based,
eons on eons. Stories are used to direct and define borders of our thought, accessible and
the non-accessible domains and building phenomenon of and from them. Stories
become myth, your and my. On myth then we further weave our paradigm and build
a thought which becomes our belief. Thus the story, fact or otherwise, gradually
get a life of its own, with narration after narration. In the process of the repetitive
narration, we imbibe a sense of authenticity to the story and as a consequence
many a mystery and manifestations are imbued. For the powerful and
supernatural, we instill the concept of impeccable birth, to validate the awe. This
we can come across all the religions and followings of ideas and philosophies
of the Gods and their Messengers. The theism (believing in god or deities) –
poly (many gods), mono (one god), panentheism (the universe is part of god),
atheism (no god), henotheism (many gods , but only one is supreme) and a host
of other individual or collective beliefs, but is always ingrained in stories
made to convince self and the others. Stories build the varied nuances of
emotions. When others are convinced, we get sects, religions and communities -
religious or otherwise.
Stories have the ability to transcend to individual and percolate to the conscience of one and many, and drive them, righteous or otherwise (which perspective lies with the observer).
Just wondering what is the story of the story. Someday, a
tale to tell ...
