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The
NEW
Story
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Personal
myths are not what you think they are. They are not false
beliefs. They are not the stories you tell yourself to explain
your circumstances and behavior. Your
personal mythology is, rather, the vibrant infrastructure that informs
your life, whether or not you are aware of it. Consciously and
unconsciously, you live by your mythology.
~~June
Singer [from the original Foreward to The Mythic Path:
Discovering the Guiding Stories of Your Past -- Creating a Vision for
Your Future, by Daniel
Feinstein and Stanley
Krippner.
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This is still very
much in process, with my apologies! Thus far I'm only one person
doing this and have put this on hold for the moment, while I focus on
soliciting for more support with this work. In the meantime, here
are hints of what is to come regarding the New Story and a few ways you
can explore this through other pages here.
A collective mythos or story is a most important element of our Human
existence, and is felt by many scholars and others to be essentially
non-existent at the moment, which is not good. In the past, this has
been examined within the context of individual cultures and
subcultures. Today, I believe there is value in looking into the
possibility of a story big enough for a global culture. So did Rhea
A. White. We both feel there is indeed a New Story breaking on the
vast shores of Human consciousness, and that Story is about the impact of
the exceptional human experience unfolding with us as individuals, and
ultimately on our society and even species and our world.
White points
out that ..
... What we need is a story that will unite science and
spirituality, self and world. But first it must occur at the
individual level. ... Each of us needs a story that charges our
daily lives with meaning and puts us personally in touch with
the sacred. There are many books about writing or better yet,
living one's own story, one's own myth. But the myths of old
contained an element that is missing from most stories told
today, and that is a link with the sacred. Exceptional human
experiences [and specifically, recording one's EHE-based story]
can serve as those links; they are those happenings in our lives
that can pull us out of boredom and disconnection into a world
of meaning and connection. We have to learn how to honor these
experiences and let them into our lives.
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This will be a major topic before long on Ahhh-TheLight. The
following pages also have much to say about the power of honoring and
sharing our deeply affecting stories of this nature -- our spiritually
transformative experiences / exceptional human experiences:
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Thank
you for your patience!
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