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    • Book Info
    •    – Preface
    •    – Introduction
    • Prologue
    •    – Opening Words
    •       – About This Book
    •       – About Writing Style
    •       – Mysterious Author
    •    – On Knowledge and Wisdom
    •    – On Consciousness and Awareness
    •    – On God, Spirit and Soul
    •    – On Reality and Actuality
    •    – On Change and Transformation
    •    – On Interconnectedness
    •    – On Intelligence
  • INFINITΞ
    • Infinite World of Quantum and Zen
    •    – The Essence of Zen
    •    – The Birth of Infinite Quantum Zen
    • Infinite Living System – The Miracle of Life
    •    – Infinite Fractal of Creation
  • TRΛNSFORMΛTION
    • Towards An Era of Transformation
    •    – Outdated View of Life
    •    – The Emergence of a New Vision
    •       – Ancient Wisdom Resurfaces
    •       – The Living Earth (Gaia)
    •       – Metaphysical Paradigm Shift
  • LIFΞ
    • The Essence of Life
    •    – What Is Life?
    •    – In Search for the Meaning of Life
    •    – The Mystery of Human Life
    •    – A Species With Collective Amnesia
    •    – Humanity – The Pinnacle of Evolution?
    •    – Humans – Masters of Storytelling
    •    – The Game of Survival
    •    – The False Sense of Self
    • The Preciousness of Human Life
    •    – When Does a Human Life Begin?
    • The Existential Paradox
    •    – The Fear of Annihilation (Non-Existence)
    •    – Change is the Only Constant
  • CONSCIOUSNΞSS
    • The Mystery of Consciousness
    •    – Panpsychism – Dilemma of Consciousness
    • Living Consciousness – Vibrant Interconnected Reality
  • ΛWΛRΞNΞSS
    • Awakening From the Dream of Life
    • What Is Self-Awareness?
    • Living Awareness – The Heart of Living Life
    •    – What Is Living Awareness?
    •    – 7 Levels of Living Awareness
    • The Art of Lucid Living
    • The Art of Mindful Living
  • QUΛNTUM
    • Living Quantum World – A New Synthesis of Knowledge
    •    – Problems of Understanding the Quantum World
    •    – Crisis at the Edge of Physics, Science & Cosmology
    •    – Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Entanglement
    •    – The Role of Consciousness in the Quantum World
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & Multiverse
    •        – Interconnected Nested Multiverse
    •        – Shifting into a Parallel Universe
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & The Nature of Time
    •        – The New View of Time – Time Equals Life
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Humans – Masters of Storytelling 1/2 – The Essence of Life: Part III | Awaken the Living Awareness Within ∞ LIFΞ ∞

by Sambodhi Padmasamadhi Friday, April 01, 2022
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~ ∞ ~ Masters of Storytelling – Awaken the Living Awareness Within ~ ∞ ~



In the previous chapter, we touched upon the truth that the stories we tell build up our world. The context in which this was brought up involved something called the human condition, from which the false sense of self originates and springs. You see, the human condition is basically a collective story, an unstructured narrative we buy into and believe in. This collective condition, or story, if you will – has shaped not only the individuals themselves, but also our culture. This is because stories are the foundation of our lives and character, and because our lives are influenced by the stories we tell, they have the power to create our reality. This brings us to an important point: if there’s anything we humans excel at, it is most definitely storytelling. We make stories for everything, and this is why stories are how we learn and remember – they provide a way of understanding our place in the scheme of things by structuring our understanding of events. Stories are how we make sense of life because they root us in an on-going stream of history by providing us with a sense of belonging and helping establish our identities.

For thousands of years, we have used the art of storytelling to enlighten, to inform, to provoke, and to entertain. And so it can be said that at the very core, our shared reality is based on stories – the stories we tell build up our world. Indeed, every culture is built upon stories and beliefs passed on by its leaders, family members and elders. All cultures have stories about the beginnings of the universe, and thus all religions have stories at their heart explaining our existence and purpose here on Earth. Stories are our interpretation of reality – they describe to us how we believe the world is. Indeed, our entire worldview and memories are created out of our stories.

Stories are clearly a double-edged sword. You see, at best, stories can encourage, inspire, and inform; they can also be healing and cathartic for both the teller and the listener alike. At worst, stories can be harmful in several different ways: they can express falsehoods, half-truths, attitudes and dispositions that can lead people feeling and behaving differently than they would otherwise. This, in turn, can have much greater consequences and impact than most realize, even long-lasting, civilization-wide consequences. You see, unfortunately, often times, we adopt our stories as truth, and because we believe in them, stories become our reality – they create the world we perceive and inhabit. This leads to the creation of an agreed-upon concepts of reality – more specifically, a social construct*1 called “consensus reality.” It refers to an agreed-upon concepts of reality which people in the world, or a culture or group believe are real (or treat as real), usually based upon their common experiences as they believe them to be.
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*1 A social construct is something that exists as a result of human interaction – it exists because humans agree that it exists; some examples of social constructs are countries and money.

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In this type of consensus view of reality, we are often involved not only with our representations of the world, but with our representations of those representations. This is why we humans believe that there is a real world “out there,” but in all actuality, the “real world” is always interpreted by our mind and filtered through our senses, which goes on to say that what we see and hear are merely interpretations of reality through our minds and bodies. In other words, based on our beliefs we create representations of what might be out there in the world — see? It is against this backdrop that we can understand the following: each moment everything is happening on the canvas of Life, which is being painted with non-material things like awareness, consciousness, feelings, emotions, experiences, memories, thoughts, and will, but also with material things such as particles, cells, neurons, and endless other interconnected pieces that come together like the colors of the spectrum. It is precisely through our stories how we make sense of it all, you see?

Although storytelling has evolved along with our language, communication and technology — the basic premise remains intact — stories (narratives) communicate ideas, and thus we teach and learn through story. In so doing, we learn to perceive the world around us through the stories we tell each other. And because the stories we tell create our future, it is paramount that we learn to tell better stories. To begin to break away from the old, outdated and outmoded, limited narrow view of the world, which is colored by the human condition — we need a new collective story, that of empowerment, equality, compassion, and unity — see? Hence, it is reasonable to ask ourselves: What would our life be like if we would include the storyteller into our stories? Not as some external unspecified entity narrating the story, but as an intrinsic part of the story — the listener, the story and the storyteller becoming one intertwined symbiosis of Living Life; we humans ourselves being active storytellers of our collective human story, you see? Now, let me ask you this: What could we accomplish if we truly cared about each other and each others’ well-being? What could we accomplish if we really took care of the whole world — allowing people to think clearly and express themselves in creative ways instead of suppressing every non-conventional creative endeavour?

Because stories are the foundation of our lives and character, they have the power to create our reality, and this is precisely why the stories we tell ourselves can make or break our future. This realization has many implications that have not been fully recognized. You see, without awareness, we give our personal power to the story, and in so doing, the story writes itself. But with awareness, we recover the control of our story, and in so doing, we can choose what stories we believe, and in turn we can change the old story to better fit our needs and values. Should we choose to reclaim our personal power and recover the control of our story is entirely up to us, is it not? Should we choose to learn from one another and help each other along the way, is once again, up to us — both individually and collectively. Now, take a moment and imagine the endless possibilities we could achieve, dream, envision, and create together.

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What will our future hold and what will it look like is but anyone’s guess, what matters most is the truth that our future is ours to envision, discover and co-create together. We are the ones who write our own destiny, with how we choose to live our lives, with what we choose to learn, unlearn, and relearn, with what we choose to let go and leave behind, with what we choose to envision and create, and what we choose to cherish and value — see? Should we choose to use our free will to rewrite our story and redefine how we do things — is entirely up to each and every one of us. Is it not, indeed, up to us to choose our path? The decision is ours, and ours alone, and has been so from day one. Should we choose to acknowledge it, is once again, up to us. Whichever path we choose, it will surely determine the fate of our species for a long time to come.
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~ ॐ ~ Sambodhi Padmasamadhi ~ ∞ ~

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