Books have been written for a long time, ever since we were able to start printing. Before that, people used to tell stories and there were people who were storytellers. They would make their way through the world by stopping from place to place and repeating tales that they had memorized and they could tell at length. Now we have novels ad infinitum that you can buy in bookstores. We have entered into the realm of movies which are these stories told on screen with flickering images. Everybody now has a television in their home where these flickering images come in and tell them stories. But as a people, we are used to storytelling. We are used to plots and conundrums and plots and working them out. Our mind is constantly telling stories to us, to each of us. It is the story that it takes to be our life as filtered through itself. So the mind is a storyteller who is constantly telling us stories about everything that we see and everything that we are involved in, and about us. Its main point of focus is usually ourself. So we have this mechanism inside of us that is telling us who we are, what we are, what we are doing and how things should turn out. It is constantly tweaking the story. This mind is much more powerful than the movies because it is attached directly to our emotions. Imagine going to a film and you are wired and then emotions were transferred through the wires to you.
Well, we are wired. We are hard-wired to our mind. The scenarios it displays in front of us affect us in tremendous ways. We are emotionally affected in powerful ways by the waves of the thought patterns and the storytelling that goes on in our mind. Now in books, novels, of course, are made-up stories. Then there are things they call biographies which are supposed to be true stories. In movies there are movies that are made-up stories and then there are documentaries which are supposed to be true stories. The truth is that there’s about as much truth in most documentaries as there is in made-up movies. There’s as much truth as there are in historical novels. It may be a little closer to what actually happened, but it still goes through the sieve that is the mind. The netting that is the mind which puts its own twist on everything.
When we understand the nature of how the mind works and how the mind connives and that the mind is connected to the lower self which is always trying to enhance the image that we have of ourself in our own head, which is always trying to do for us within the world, usually without any regard to what is going on or what’s happening to anybody else because of what we do, we begin to understand the nature of this mind and what happens.
