Big Stories cast their Light within
a communal self-consciousness and awareness—often
described as “tradition.” From evaluating
specific, individual Seer explorations of the Shadow
or the deeply embedded dark depths of the dominant Big Stories that
also open when the mind and heart—willingly or not!—melt
and meld, we claim that Big Stories are creatively
imagined.
A Big Story is not right
or wrong.
Not true or false.
It is something creatively imagined—it
enables people to artfully envision a way
of living and to
create meaningful, heartfelt actions that
bestow communal identity and make manifest
a communal presence.
Of note: A specific Big
Story is also not necessary for
humans to live a full life, meaning that—as
anthropology, history of consciousness studies, and historical research
have shown—we humans simply have lived full human lives while
creatively imagining quite drastically diverse ways
of living day to day. Consequently, we approach a Big Story seeking
to be open to what it creatively imagines. Plumbing the
deeply embedded emotions and truths through creative imagining is
equally an artistic and intuitive venture
as it is an analytical and reasoned pursuit.
The deeply embedded emotions and truths of a Big Story
are discerned through personal experiences
that take the Seer into both the Light and Shadow cast by a Big Story
(its narrative, ritual, revelation, etc.) To initiate sensual
immersion, we peer and sit in silence to
hear what is not said, see what is hidden,
smell what is masked, etc. From within such
moments of sensual immersion we form our deepest thoughts,
unleash our intuitions, and free our imaginations.
Continue—immersion
