Objective

Storyteller Consciousness is (1) the conscious awareness that the stories we tell create the reality we see, (2) presence in the acknowledgment that we are the authors of our own stories, (3) and attunement to the ocean of being in which we are embedded.

As we use the storyteller consciousness, we begin to disbelieve in our labels, categories, and other abstractions as we come into contact with this human reality. Science, technology, politics, and government are all themselves stories. America is a story. France is a story. The law is a story. Words and symbols, that is all, they each have no more meaning than what we agree upon.

Our mistake has been not in telling stories, only in thinking they are real. When we let go of that, we are able to play with them consciously and let them go when they no longer serve us.

Instead of the present demarcation between drama and real life, future society will consist of stories within stories within stories, plays within plays within plays without any sense that one is “for real” and one is not. Life will be all play, and all play will be in earnest.

In the meantime, in the next century or so, great storytellers will emerge to inspire us with beautiful and believable stories of what life can be, visions of the world we can create. Those stories will have roles for each of us that draw upon our gifts and develop our potential. It is happening already. Have you heard the casting call? A beautiful life is being offered, if we can only find the courage.

This, Charles Eisenstein says, will be the eventual fulfillment of the Age of Reunion; a time when we come into full, conscious co-creative partnership with the universe itself.

We explored this from our perspective in The Storyteller Consciousness (newsletter).

Reflections

“Memory and fiction share the same origin, and it’s necessary to create memory in a very similar fashion as fiction in order to see it at all.” –Karl Ove Knausgård

My Storyteller Consciousness

References

Storyteller Consciousness, The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein

Creators

#citizensofone (See: Citizens of One)
#charleseisenstein

Contexts

#ascent-of-humanity (See: The Ascent of Humanity)
#index (See: #index)