Relating

There is a process that can occur between people that will allow for growth. We have been doing it for as long as we have gathered together socially. Narrative or storytelling. The narrative is a collaborative effort. If you start engaging someone in storytelling collaboratively, you will send the right signals to activate the characters in their story. Then you can corrupt those characters. Introduce new ideas and behaviors relating to that specific thing. This leads to what people call realization, and we all want to be realized.

We don’t live myriad separate lives. There aren’t separate threads of life that have any substance by themselves. We all are living one epic story of love and loss, conflict and resolution, confusion and sudden enlightenment, even epic journeys into the unknown.

“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.” Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss writer known for his masterpiece Journal intime, 1821-1881)

“My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)