Life is a succession of stories playing out internally and externally. Around them identities are created that eventually vanish just to be replaced by something else. Which stories have meaning, and need deeper exploration is something we each have to decide individually, at a very personal level. Without a need to cling on to any one for too long, some stories are worth paying attention to, and engaging with, letting them transform, and re-emerge. Others are best discarded immediately. The abyss between the two is deep because in these times that gap has rarely to do with personal preference, but much more with rootedness in different forms of beingness. Let me explain.
Currently human beings live and die through stories. This is because Stories – note the capital ‘S’ – are how we relate to each other, how we connect, how we harness our heritage, share experiences and wisdom. Stories nourish us and give meaning. Stories of the distant past are still reverberating in the lands and rocks across this planet, reminding us of higher frequencies and empowering ways of living. Yet stories are what we are flooded with every day to be persuaded into believing that we are powerless, isolated, meaningless, almost devoid of sentience, and too retarded to decide for ourselves. Strong words – I know. But we live in a time when we either see what is steering us and consciously re-claim the wheel, or we drown in an ocean of love unable to recognise it as such.
Because of the importance of meaningful Stories Sun Beings features, since its beginning, a ‘Share a story’ page. In this way we enhance our sense of community more palpably then by bioelectrical connection alone. There are also many initiatives on our platform which emphasise the value and profundity of Story-telling. Examples are several initiatives in the realm of re-connecting with Nature such as Utah Diné Bikéyah – a Navajo project, and the Sea Change Project in South Africa. MNKF Creatives in Congo is an art initiative with a strong focus on high-quality Story-telling, powerful enough to change the country’s narratives. Photo Voice (UK) and Two Row Productions (Canada) are examples from the realm of film and photography.
During the last 3 years I have spent much time in Ireland – travelling in and out of the country, and with each visit diving deeper into its culture. Ireland is one of few countries – esp. in Europe – where older, pre-Christian history is still available, and so-called pagan traditions and practices are still alive. An abundance of literature about what is now called folklore and mythology is offering glimpses, including very deep and accurate ones, into a world before the frequency range of this planet dropped substantially, before we ceased to communicate and truly collaborate with animals, recognising their sacredness, sentience and intelligence, and before human beings entered a system of work-based slavery. In Ireland, professional story-tellers are respected and loved members of society. It is a highly thought of profession. Why?
These Stories help us remember who we are, what it means to be human and what this world of Nature that we are a part of used to look like. When I read that a man who had climbed a tree to escape his pursuers, quietly and swiftly walked along one of its branches – all the way from its base at the trunk to the outer end – and by so-doing ended up far outside the circle formed by an army of people that was chasing him, then I know that the world of trees – the size of trees – used to be very different than anything we know now. This is one example of how we can re-connect with our past through Story.
Through Stories we laugh together, we cry together, we resolve problems and challenges together, and we remember that in our diversity of form, belief and tradition we are all part of the same. We merge the individual with the many and in a society built on maturity and fierce responsibility we can recognise together what is right and needs to stay in this world, what we wish to (re-)build, what may appear beautiful on a superficial level but is actually part of its opposite and needs to go, and what is outright destructive to nature, our children and ourselves. Pooled discernment through shared wisdom captured in Stories.
The art of Story-telling and the sharing of Stories in writing, art, music etc. teaches us to listen to one another and to hear each other. Good Stories prompt us to focus by grabbing our attention and bringing it to a single point where everything meets – those who are listening, the person that is speaking, the content of the story. In this way we materialise new worlds together, through Stories, first at the elemental level, than in actual form.
And then there are stories that we are receiving through our minds, through the majority of media, politics and institutions, and even in our dreams which are meant to program us such that we function in a particular way which fits in with these systems and takes us away from what we believed in as young people, what we envision for our families and communities – what we KNOW is possible in the most positive sense of the word.
Due to current massive changes in frequency on this planet which support, empower and re-build the system of Nature in which real Stories are rooted, what removes us from our life source and attempts to destroy the Earth is no longer allowed. Human beings live through Stories and die through stories at an ever accelerating rate. Only when we can see the difference can we re-build a world that reflects who we are, and which used to be our reality until not so long ago. Through Stories we change this world.
Written by Carina Ramm
