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If fiction is not real, why can it wake us up and turn a life around? Lyam Christopher opens with that small wonder. You read a book or watch a film, change completely, and share it with a friend, only to hear, it is just fiction, it never happened. And yet, the change has already taken hold. Story does its work not because it is factually true, but because it rearranges something deeper inside.
He traces that pull all the way back to our biology. Our ancestors gathered around the fire to hear how Ugg barely made it home from the hunt, and we still slow down to look at an accident on the highway, hungry for the tale. That same storytelling instinct runs through gossip, fear of missing out, and the way we give the weather a face and call it angry. Because the impulse is so deep, others can use it on us, through news and media designed to make us feel righteous or afraid. Learning how stories work, he says, is how we stop being carried away by them and begin writing our own.
Then the deeper magic appears. The story a wounded person tells about being nothing but a victim can be rewritten into the story of someone who looked at that same pain and became strong enough to help others. Even the claim that Columbus discovered America is a story that shaped a whole world, and it could be told differently. Goals, he suggests, are also useful fictions, worth following but never to be clutched too hard. The most powerful fiction of all may be the line itself, the boundary we draw and then watch our energy obey. Once we see that, the Tree of Life and every ritual become invitations to redraw the world, not cages to live inside.
Full Video Transcript
Alright, it is Sunday night and it is time to do another video. This week, we are talking about the power of story. Yes, a story can be a non-count noun. So let’s start out by talking. This is basically about the power of fiction. Okay.
Suppose you have a movie that you’ve seen or a book that you’ve read that has changed your life and you recommend this movie to a friend.
You yourself went to see this movie and after you came out of that movie, everything changed for you.
Your life turned around. You started doing things differently.
It’s like the movie saved you.
So you tell a friend about it, about your life-changing experience with this movie or this book.
and the the so your friend goes and checks it out and then your friend comes back to you and says
what are you an idiot or something that you know that story never really happened right
that’s just fiction so you’re basing that life change on a fictional event okay so now this
might draw a question uh some attention to the nature of religion in other words like um some
Some people in religion require that their religion be true.
This calls into question the nature of faith, too.
Like, what is faith exactly?
Is it trust or is it belief that something is true?
Okay.
So they go to you and they say, you know, like, oh, I saw this movie that you recommended or I read this book that you recommended.
And it’s just a work of fiction.
How can that possibly change your life?
It’s not real.
Never happened.
And then your response is, oh, well, it’s too late for me.
My life has already changed.
So the proof is in the pudding.
I’ve already had the experience of the change.
And therefore, I would still recommend the movie or the book to others.
And how sad for you that you weren’t able to experience that change
because you dismissed it as unreal.
So story is very powerful.
and a lot of times many like many of the things that we believe to be true factually true those
are also stories because anything you say about reality is just a story about reality what you
say about it isn’t really quite what happened you might be making an attempt to portray it as you
know accurately let’s say and that’s fine but you have to remember that it’s still a story so your
retelling of something that happened can have a variety of
effects on your audience. Okay, as as you well know, if you if
you’ve been if you’ve been paying attention to biased news
sources, which they’re all pretty much biased these days,
right? They put their spin on it. And you can tell somebody’s
trying to manipulate you, you know, somebody’s trying to
change the narrative. And that’s a big buzzword. Now it’s like,
oh it’s they’re spinning a narrative okay so people who spin a narrative in regard to politics
or sales or business um or religion uh they are more or less aware that story is very powerful
okay and they’re using story to possibly manipulate you but also to help you change your life okay or
to find meaning or purpose or power. Magic relies most heavily on this faculty, on the
ability of you to process story, but not only process story, but to participate in the creation
of story. Let’s go back into the biology of that. Okay, so why is story so powerful for
us it’s kind of weird too we enjoy it a lot we why do we go to the to the movies and watch this
horrible movie about evil villains oppressing people and then the hero comes along and has to
suffer so horribly to overcome all the obstacles why do we enjoy that it’s terrifying it’s horrifying
so it’s really an instinct that we have we have an instinct for storytelling
so when when our caveman ancestors sat around the campfire possibly we were eating something
like a fresh kill and and then you know one of the hunters says to the group it’s like oh well
Ugg here almost died in securing this bison or this antelope or this gazelle you know and then
of course everybody goes oh no tell us the story tell us the story everybody wants to hear because
so-and-so almost died, but he didn’t die, did he? And so we developed a natural instinct to want to
hear how Ugg survived, okay? Now, this is why when you’re driving along the superhighway,
like here in South Florida, it’s I-95, driving along I-95, and suddenly the traffic slows down.
It’s like, what the heck is going on? Who’s blocking traffic? And lo and behold, you eventually
make it up to where the blockage is, and there is no blockage. Somebody has just had an accident
and their car is off to the side of the road. There’s no blockage of traffic, but people are
simply slowing down to look. It’s what they call rubbernecking, right? That’s an instinct. People
are looking to see what happened, okay? So it’s a storytelling instinct kicking in saying,
what can I learn from this? What’s the narrative? What happened? How can I avoid misfortune like
this in the future. This is the storytelling instinct in its most raw form, okay? And this
is why we enjoy stories, even the most frightening ones. And this is why horror movies can be really
cool, can be really fun, you know, especially if they’re pointing out real types of danger
and how to overcome that. So you can start looking at our faculties in regard to storytelling.
all of these things are basically instincts okay so let’s start out with FOMO the fear of missing
out this is something that your smartphone oh my gosh I have one right here oh um it uh the the
people who design the software for this the apps for this they um they take advantage of your FOMO
instinct especially that infinite scroll I don’t want to miss anything I need to keep scrolling
because this is all important, right?
This is news, news, news, news, and dancing cat videos.
So there is that tendency to want to feel like you’re not missing out.
So I know as much as my neighbor knows, okay?
And that instinct or that fear of missing out is unconscious,
and people are taking advantage of that.
How much news do you really need?
And yet many people can’t seem to get enough of it
because it just keeps triggering that instinct boom boom boom boom that fomo instinct keeps being
they’re pushing your they’re pushing your button don’t miss out this is what happened look you you
want to be just as informed as the person next to you right yeah right uh when you become conscious
of that then you can start to let’s let’s stay away from the news in fact i recommend staying
away from it entirely. Gossip, same thing. We want to hear what’s going on. We want people to
come from other areas and report what they’ve seen there. It’s the same kind of instinct.
Gossip is an instinct because when we hear about what happened to Ugg on that hunting expedition,
not only do we enjoy it and learn from it, but we share it with others. We could also
warn others too about well ugg’s not a very good hunter he’s kind of like you know he’s kind of
dangerous like let’s warn you about him and start you know spreading tales about because he’s not
really that reliable as a hunter gossip right but uh both a good thing and a bad thing so
when you see people gossiping or you find yourself participating in gossip don’t be so hard on
yourself because it’s an instinct okay it’s kind of unconscious when it’s just kind of keeps going
but then you can now that you know this you can catch yourself in the act of doing it
and say to yourself well how much gossip do i really need like in fact what purpose does gossip
serve let’s just um participate in it so that it’s constructive it actually does something
that’s useful and then the rest of it you just don’t participate in you know uh these other
things are um literary devices personification okay so there’s a tendency to personify the
forces of nature let’s say it’s like oh the weather was very angry today and when we do this
the elements in the story also are characters so we can more easily remember them okay not only that
but it also acknowledges that the forces of nature are somewhat alive or potentially alive
okay so it’s kind of a living universe or it’s a or a universe that is potentially alive
it is not necessarily biologically alive but it certainly has self-organizing systems within it
that have personalities characteristics okay and if we personify them then we can sort of remember
them better it’s a natural tendency for us to do that it’s not superstitious necessarily as long
as you’re aware that you’re doing it same thing for metaphor symbolism these are all things that
the psyche does automatically in fact it’s going to do it all over you if you’re not careful
So metaphor and symbolism is not something that you learn how to do. It’s something that you become aware of your mind already doing, and then you can begin to recognize it, harness it, and then use it more effectively, just as you can also use FOMO and gossip more effectively.
Okay, characterization is also very important. I think we’ll get to that later. And one of the most powerful things and most dangerous things is abstraction. We’ll also talk about that later. That is most certainly a human instinct. It’s sort of right along with our language instinct. Humans have an instinct for language, auditory language, you know, spoken language.
also you know sign language symbols hand signals a lot of facial language going on a lot there’s
a lot communicated in the face and in body language but we have an especially strong
instinct for spoken language which other animals do not seem to have not to the same degree that
we do they do seem to have other forms of communication I wouldn’t call it spoken
exactly, but similar, yeah, signaling and transmitting like sonar and things like that.
Let’s do some examples of the power of story, like the magical power of story or the magical
power of myth. Suppose that there is an adult who has recently realized that she has been abused
as a child, okay? And didn’t really remember. The memories are now surfacing, okay? And now
she realizes, oh my gosh, this is why my life has been so screwed up. And then maybe a therapist
might help this person realize that, okay, this happened to you, yes? What are you going to do
about it? So what we’re realizing now is that all through your life, it has defined you as a victim,
somebody who’s there to be kicked around somebody who’s not good enough somebody who is usable and
discardable you know you know um you’ve been defined this way and you’ve been treating yourself
this way okay and the more angry you get at the person who or people who did this to you
uh it’s probably just going to end up perpetuating that see you made me who i am today and everything’s
your fault and i’m my life’s a mess and i’m just victim victim victim and you’re the villain villain
villain you can see what’s happening here that story has taken over your life you are the victim
they are the bad guy and now the only thing that can help you is i don’t know some heroic therapist
is going to swoop in and save you if the therapist is worth his or her salt they won’t do that because
they’re going to say no no no you are going to save you you are going to rewrite what happened
to you it doesn’t mean you gloss over what happened to you but you revisit what happened
and then you redefine it and you make new new meaning out of it it’s like okay this happened
it has made me who I am today somebody who can look this kind of evil in the eye and not flinch
I’m stronger now not only that I can help others focus or or face down the same kind of fears
within themselves okay they start to rewrite this thing as oh this adversity whatever it is
happened for a reason, let’s say, and now it’s given me the abilities and the endurance and the
strength to now do so-and-so, okay? None of this is necessarily true, but neither was that victim
villain scenario. That wasn’t true either. Stuff just happened, and then suddenly, automatically,
the biology made a victim villain scenario out of it, a learned helplessness scenario out of it,
And then that story dominates the rest of that person’s life unless it is rewritten, re-dramatized, okay?
Not lied about, not changed in regard to what happened, but changed in regard to the purpose of what happened.
A new purpose is being assigned, proceeding in an as-if mode.
As if what happened to me happened for a reason, and now this is how I can benefit.
and this is how everyone can benefit from what happened to me another example healing the entire
world not just healing a life healing the world a very simple narrative 1492 columbus sailed the
ocean blue columbus discovers america in 1492 columbus discovered america okay not naturally
there’s a narrative there’s a series of events that happens you know the three three ships go
over the ocean, and they’re looking for the route around the world. And they think they’ve come
across the Indies, but they’ve actually come across, I guess it is the Bahamas, right? But
anyway, the story that I was told in history classes in the 1970s was that Columbus discovered
America. That is a terribly damaging interpretation of history. The implication of Columbus discovering
America, the implication is that no humans were here. So Columbus was the first one. He discovered
America. You might say, well, no, the Vikings discovered America, right? There are other people
came over. It’s like, no, there were people already here. There were humans already here.
If we say that Columbus discovered America or the Vikings discovered America,
we are basically implying that the people who were already here are not people. Okay. So thank
goodness we have now rewritten that narrative in history class. It’s like he didn’t discover
America. There were already human beings here. Okay. The immense amount of damage that did at
the time and still is doing to this day because that narrative is still kind of present right
is that well only you know white europeans are human and that these others don’t count and we
can kind of just you know they’re like natural forces we just kind of do with them as we please
okay so rewriting that narrative heals the entire world because it’s such a powerful interpretation
of of what it is to be human okay so rewriting that he did not discover america he discovered
it on behalf of spain let’s say or on behalf of several countries in europe okay but there were
people who discovered it before him in fact many people discovered it by being born there it’s like
oh here i am right okay um finding purpose and power so let’s talk about men there’s a cool story
about this guy named gaius of warwick and he is a fantasy character he is a warrior he has uh he
wields a two-handed sword sometimes he wields a long sword and a shield or a hammer right and
he’s really strong okay he’s very young though he’s very cocky and he’s got a lot of hormones
and he he’s a character in a story and he is kind of torn between the life of a farmer or becoming
a great warrior and so he does eventually run off and use the family money to buy a suit of armor
and weapons and he goes adventuring but he’s still kind of torn between the life of a warrior
whether he should just go settle down and and you know run a farm because he’s got the skills for
both he even meets a beautiful woman in a tavern and he’s like wow she’s she could she’d make a
great wife i could just settle down on a farm with her but somehow something about her terrifies him
he can’t seem to talk to her because he’s he’s afraid he’s afraid to talk to her he doesn’t know
why um and it’s because he’s got this destiny that’s breathing down his neck so he’s kind of
looking for his true purpose in life he’s kind of floundering between you know this should i be a
farmer should i be a great warrior and um so something happens to him um he he gets poisoned
he’s in this on this dungeon adventure and his poison needle trap uh pricks his finger and he
falls unconscious he almost dies and while he is unconscious he has a sort of vision of his
father coming to visit him okay and um so as he is sort of slipping down into death because the
poison is kind of taking over his system he um everything starts to go black he’s like oh this
is the way it ends isn’t it i’m just i’m gonna die and i haven’t realized what my true purpose is
farmer or warrior right and so um but eventually he starts to come out of it look oh this the
poison’s not killing me i think i’m going to be okay and then so he’s got this sort of dark pit
of death that he he was going to be descending into and it’s kind of now um leaving him and he’s
he’s getting better now and as he is getting better as the darkness starts to recede and he
begins to work his way upwards towards consciousness again um somehow he recognizes that
this darkness of death that he was descending into he’s like wow many men fall into that
their life is kind of like a living death or living darkness somehow he recognizes that many
men have already fallen into that dark place even while still alive they settle for it they let they
let it tame them and they walk through the world as though alive but they might as well be dead
This is a test that all men face, and some are even born having already failed it.
It’s a very powerful interpretation of his near-death experience.
And so he begins to look at his experience of wanting to be a farmer as him being tamed by an ordinary life, settling for less than being a super-powerful warrior.
and indeed as he’s trying to regain consciousness he has a vision of his father that comes to visit
him and says yes that place of darkness and insignificance is not for you not if I have
anything to say about it you must fight son you come from a long line of esteemed warriors
and our line our ancestral line is still strong unlike others who have fallen into decline
our ancestral line is strong because we have kept it that way we have answered the call of becoming
a warrior and we allow ourselves to be tested and we either pass the tests of being a warrior or we
die trying and we are strong because of it and so the implication is that if he becomes a farmer
he’s going to become weak okay it’s a very interesting myth of manhood because it’s kind
of what men are facing as civilization takes over and sort of tames them. Notice how a man
becoming a farmer or becoming an office worker or becoming tamed and civilized, that isn’t
necessarily a bad thing, but it can be interpreted that way. And then a new narrative can take over
where the man basically regards his life as a test of his prowess,
of his power, of his will, his strength.
And then Gaius eventually comes out of the unconsciousness
and he wakes up with a new purpose.
It’s like, okay, I’m not going to be a farmer anymore.
And the interesting thing is that he sees that beautiful barmaid again
and he can actually talk to her now.
He’s not he’s not afraid of her anymore because it seemed that she was she represented something that was going to take his strength away.
If he settled down with her and became a farmer, he wasn’t going to going to live up to the the test of his ancestors that would keep his ancestral line really strong, like a bunch of warriors.
OK, is is that narrative that he’s choosing? Is it good?
No, he could become a really nasty warrior and kill lots of people. Right.
is it powerful yeah he could have chosen a narrative of the farmer and made that powerful
too okay but he’s made his choice now and so it’s interesting too because the narrative he’s chosen
is also very dangerous there’s a lot of danger in stories okay uh you could even see that if he
doesn’t live up to that warrior lifestyle if he fails he could be suicidal it’s like well i might
as well not be alive because that’s the interpretation right if i can’t be this great
warrior, then I’ve failed the test and I might as well not be alive. I wonder why so many men
kill themselves, especially lately. I wonder why that’s happening. So the art of story, the ability
to analyze stories is very important, okay? And one can take a literature class to develop that
ability, okay? Or a mythology class, okay? Or simply study literature and astrology, okay?
and um let’s say you’re studying literature so you can get a better better handle on how story
works because you’ve heard about this thing liam said story is really powerful right well okay
how do i make story work for me uh because it’s really the essence of magic anyway okay well you
learn to handle story by learning to analyze literature or mythology okay the way that you
analyze literature or stories or mythology is there’s several steps to it. Step one is to
identify the powerful effect that the story has, the myth has, okay? What is it doing to its
audience? What’s it doing to me? Okay, step two is, oh, how does it do that? So you identify the
literary elements that it employs to have that effect upon you, okay? And once you identify the
little tricks in the narrative that make it have that power over you let’s say it’s like oh i can
do that too i can write stories like that i can make stories like that lo and behold oh this is
how you make your own magical rituals this is how you do your own magic it’s essentially me
knowing the elements of a good story identifying the ones that work really well in certain
situations and then turning around and using them to rewrite my life or to rewrite the life of the
world okay or to help other people rewrite their life or their worldview okay but you have to know
you know the tricks of storytelling to do that in order to redefine a life there are two reasons
mainly for analyzing literature i would say um so one of them is so to figure out how to do it which
you’ve just talked about so um so you notice the effect that the story has you look at the elements
of the story that effectively produce that effect and how they’re used to do that and oops and then
you um and then you could you start making your own stories or you start revising stories using
these devices okay another reason to analyze stories to analyze literature or myth or whatever
is so that you become immune to the manipulations of others who are using story on you this is very
important okay because lo and behold especially nowadays with social media story is being used
all over the place to change your thinking and your behavior to trigger your FOMO instinct
to trigger your need to be righteous,
to be correct all the time, right?
So, yeah, so when you realize
how story elements are used
to produce an effect in the audience or in yourself,
okay, you can become immune
to other people’s attempts to manipulate you.
Not only that, but you can also turn around
and use those techniques to manipulate them, okay?
And hopefully you will use your powers for good, not for evil, when you learn these tricks.
All right, fictional characters.
So what you might notice is that in the magical work, you kind of superimpose the tree of life upon your body.
And it’s kind of a way of saying that all these characters, these fictional characters, are present within me.
So in the Hermetic Kabbalah, each of these spheroth, these ten circles, can be seen as a perspective.
For example, you could take one particular pantheon of pagan gods and constellate them in these various spheroth.
The most commonly known constellation of pagan deities is through astrology.
So we have Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Saul, or Helios, which is the sun, right?
We have Venus, Mercury, and Luna, goddess of the moon, or Selene.
So these are the moon goddess, the sun god, the god of Mars, the goddess of Venus.
All these are different ways of interacting and seeing things happening.
And of course, there are lots of stories about these gods.
about how mars and venus occasionally have a fling together and when that happens mark
mars is subdued he’s not so violent for a while okay so these are all elements of storytelling
which are which represent how the world unfolds and so if you are aware of how these various
forces unfold and interact with each other you supposedly then can orchestrate some of this for
yourself you can you can look at them and you can orchestrate them you can reinterpret what’s
happening you can rewrite the story and so that that also goes for if you have a particular
astrological astrological birth chart some people might say oh your chart is especially difficult
let’s say oh my goodness you were born with with um saturn and aries that’s a very difficult
placement oh poor you oh well you’re just a victim of the stars right and then so you take that and
you say well no no let’s look at what these characters are okay so saturn and aries that
could mean that i’m a late bloomer could mean that um that i that i’m going to be really good
using discipline in order to initiate things and get them done okay uh saturn in aries saturn tends
to um uh restrict aries so you’re here and aries is essentially the ability to initiate new things
to be forceful to be penetrative and then saturn will come along and restrict that ability so your
ability to initiate new things to start new things to dive in will be limited but saturn has a
a character of its all unto itself it as it’s a sphere of discipline and detachment abstraction
and so you would say well no i can get things done i just need to do it in a saturnian way
i need to have the character of saturn in order to get those things done and in fact saturn can
be very effective at initiating things and maintaining them so that’s an example of
someone recharacterizing or using the characterizations that seem to be unfavorable
but then making new meaning out of it to say no no i just need to know how to proceed okay and
astrologers would do that they’ll say well it’s a difficult placement yeah but here’s how you can
work with that okay and it’s not to say that um this is not to say that astrology is real or true
okay um it is a meaning making system itself it is the power of story that is ready made and ready
to go it’s right out of the box okay um and i do encourage people who learn astrology to make
once they’ve mastered it as it is then begin to creatively reinterpret it okay do not creative
do not creatively reinterpret it at first you have to learn the basics first okay but once you master
it then you can start to make new narratives okay and then see if see if they work test them out so
you rewrite your life but then of course you rewrite it in a certain way to see what kind
of results it will bring the way you rewrite your life might not work okay for instance gaius
decides to become a warrior because of this you know this sort of idea that if you settle for a
life of agriculture and civilization you’re going to become weak okay that’s not necessarily true
but that’s the narrative he’s going with and it might make him powerful might get him killed too
Okay, so it’s the chance he takes. So that’s part of the excitement of magic. All right, fictional goals. This is really important because many people with their ability to move forward and go after things in life, they set goals. And that’s a really good practice. Okay. However, they, for some reason, they tend to take their goals literally. The story has to end this way.
and so when they don’t meet that goal or that objective they get depressed but seldom really
do we ever achieve the goals the way that we have planned them anyway especially if we’re very you
know literal about the way things should turn out seldom do things really work out that way
so an important thing to acknowledge about story is that that end point that you see of living
happily ever after in this situation, that’s simply a goal that you are holding up right now
as a motivator. It’s not real. How could it be? It’s in the future, right? The future doesn’t
exist. Okay. So the ability to have, the most important thing about the power of story is that
the goals that many people believe to be so important, okay, you can wink at those goals
and say, those are, those are fictional. Okay. What’s actually going to happen? It’s probably
not going to be that, not going to be that. And that, but that goal is going to be very useful
for us right now, as we strive, we’re just going to proceed as if that’s where we want to go,
but I know better. Okay. So that’s a great way of not getting all depressed when you don’t
achieve your life’s goals. Okay. Because seldom do we ever really do that. We end up in new
territories and then suddenly we just make new goals and then we end up in territory we didn’t
expect and we still we make more goals and if you take those goals literally you will suffer okay
especially if you actually achieve one of them as you wanted it oh no because then that reinforces
the idea that goals are real and they’re not they’re not real they are fictional but fiction
is very powerful very useful so how is this all magical like i have to just tell stories and then
magic comes out of that. One of the most pervasive fictional entities in the universe is the line
or the boundary. And I wrote a pretty extensive article on how lines do not exist. That sounds
like a very liberal thing to say. Oh, so-and-so always stays inside the lines. And I’ve learned
to color outside the lines or something like that. And I’m badass because I don’t pay attention to
the lines. That’s not what I’m talking about here. To really see that lines and boundaries
and barriers do not exist. To look at the world and try to find an actual line or a boundary or
a surface for that matter. Not even surfaces exist. I did talk about that at length in one
of my articles. There’s an article called The Insanity of Geometry. But these entities of
boundaries and lines and barriers they are fictional okay and so we we use them to create
a sort of version of reality and that version of reality does tend to contain energy and
consciousness and will power whatever that is right kundalini okay and so these um these
imaginary boundaries that we create actually do channel energy, okay? And there are versions of
these fictional boundaries and barriers that are more effective than others. And then as you learn
magic, as you draw magic circles and symbols and lines and things like that, you are unwittingly
teaching yourself that these entities don’t really exist but I pretend that they do and my energy
tends to follow along those lines those imaginary lines okay it’s the same thing you do when you
create imaginary characters in the mind oh this is Thor this is Loki you know that that Thor entity
becomes a container for these virtues and these powers and the Loki entity becomes a container
of imaginary boundaries, right, for these particular virtues. None of those barriers
and boundaries or containers, none of those are real necessarily. But that’s the way the psyche
works. And it entertains those things as if they are real. And so the energy itself then begins to
obey the schematic, the schematicization of reality that you create. All right. And the
default narratives that we sort of are born with are not very helpful to us usually. That’s usually
the, there’s a lot of trauma that has us automatically defined as in danger, as vulnerable,
as needy. Okay. Oh, and this vessel of neediness and victimization. And that’s how I am. You know,
that’s how I came into this world and that’s how I’m always going to be. No, you can rewrite that.
So whatever’s inside this imaginary container, you can change what’s in there and you can change what’s on the outside.
OK, none of that’s real either. OK, but so I guess the main point I’m making here is that the most the most important fictional entity that you can end up playing with is the line or the barrier or the boundary.
OK, and you control where those boundaries are. This is up to you to do.
it’s not that it’s not that when you do that everything’s going to be wonderful
when you reconfigure the boundaries in your life uh then you do that just to see what will happen
things might go really badly or they might go really well and then you’ll make adjustments
and make them even better or you know so on and so forth okay so the one of the most important
things about the power of story or the power of fiction is that the energy itself and the energy
of manifestation tends to obey these imaginary boundaries and shapes and characters and
constellations of perspectives, the energy of your life and your potentiality will now fill up
the imaginary space that you have created with your own storytelling ability. And you have the
power to change how that energy constellates in your life. This is why we have this strange
practice of configuring the tree of life so that it’s now there and you can see all these various
perspectives and entities and energies that are lurking in the background and now you can begin
eventually you can begin to make your own stories out of them all right so that is the power of
story i hope that made sense um yeah sometimes i watch these videos afterwards i’m like oh
that did make sense. So I’m hoping this was like that. So that this does make a lot of sense for
you guys. I guess one of the big takeaways is, is that if you are not familiar with how stories
work, how myths work, how literature works, it’s a big heads up to you to learn, not so you can
become a famous writer, but so you can rewrite your life, you can change the narrative of your
existence, okay, and you can help others do the same, so that the energy in your life constellates
want it to and hopefully when it does it’s going to be a result that you
wanted because this is trial and error isn’t it alright so until next time
Source: Lyam Christopher
My favorite line from the movie Vanilla Sky is whispered from the lips of Penelope Cruz… “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”
It’s true. No mater how predestined, how bleak, how desperate things may seem… every passing minute is another chance to craft a different path – a different ending.
In this video, Lyam Christopher gives us a glimpse as to how it works.
In other videos on Roxz.tv, you’ll find voices, like Alan Moore and Grant Morrison driving this point home in other ways – throughhypersigils , for example.
The truth is, Humans are story-bound creatures. One day, we woke up on this planet – were dumbfounded and confused by it all – and began crafting stories to explain our inexplicable experiences.
This is how the Gods were born, and how superstitions are made. This is the root of every religion – fictional stories that we made real by living inside them.
From Cargo Cults to Christian Zionism – this is how it works. It’s how propaganda and indoctrination works under the surface. This is the fiction-becomes-reality mechanism at play.
The 3 Bs:
Belief yields Behavior that Becomes reality.
So as a species – if we ever hope to free ourselves from the Damning Dogmas that drag us down, we as a population of individuals – each and every one of us – need to wake up, recognize how this destructive reality is written, crafted, and pre-packaged by all the dark magicians around us (in academia, media, politics)…
And then remember Penelope’s gentle reminder.