WITHOUT STORIES, THERE IS NO UNIVERSE, EXISTENCE, REALITY, OR YOU

In this book I explore what I believe is the inescapable truth.Nothing can exist without stories about it—not even you or me.Try thinking about anything, including yourself, without calling to mind or imagining compendiums of stories and vignettes. I cannot, can you?Existence, reality and self are just stories that we have created in our minds about everything.It took our ancestors some 6 million years to conjure the mental constructs that we see and experience as mind and reality.Because nothing can exist without stories describing the what, when, where, why, how, and what it’s for, existence, reality, consciousness, self, in short, everything at their core are just the shared stories about them.Our shared stories are the foundation and anchor of the individual and community. Read more