(I would have “commented” on David’s comment to my “Telling Stories, Living Stories” post, but the system wouldn’t allow me to).\u00c2\u00a0 David, your earlier post from three years ago, sharing your practice of noticing stories, is very relevant to what I was also noticing.\u00c2\u00a0 And I am still wondering, using the metaphor that a writer of fiction does something similar to what we all do when we compose the stories by which live, whether there is a further avenue to explore.\u00c2\u00a0 In the realm of explicit fiction writing, the experience of a character “coming alive” is often described in terms that suggest that the “author” and his character start to proceed\u00c2\u00a0independently of one another.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if there can similarly be a movement toward independence in our own psyches that allows\u00c2\u00a0a new direction to be taken and \u00c2\u00a0a new vision\u00c2\u00a0to arise above the body of convention that rules our conditioned lives (a body of convention which may, like the author of a book, claim to be in charge of the overall narrative process).\u00c2\u00a0 Hayward, I feel out of my depth here.\u00c2\u00a0 Does this sound like a license to abandon conscience and decorum?\u00c2\u00a0 Or does the movement toward mental health sometimes involve the “coming alive” of a recent arrival into the domain of the self, an arrival that recognizes its own need to be free of its\u00c2\u00a0founding conditions\u00c2\u00a0? –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(I would have “commented” on David’s comment to my “Telling Stories, Living Stories” post, but the system wouldn’t allow me to).\u00c2\u00a0 David, your earlier post from three years ago, sharing your practice of noticing stories, is very relevant to what … Continue reading