Stories

How our stories build reality

The stories we tell ourselves shape reality. They define our actions, our point of view, our input.

The storytellers are the architects of reality. We have to take that power for ourselves or be forever at their mercy.

Science is a story. Religion is a story. Materialism, empiricism, atheism are all stories. And stories determine what evidence is allowed or acceptable.

Logic is also a story. Making sense is a story. None of these things are more real than stories. They have only the power of our belief behind them.

Magick is a story about what if we tell better stories? What if we make the stories serve us rather than being servants of the stories?

So ask yourself: What stories am I serving?

Don’t ask if it is true. That is a blind alley. Agreement or disagreement feeds the story. It prevents us from truly engaging with what benefits us. And in the end that is the only way stories matter to me.

Does this story serve my desires? Does it limit my desires? How does it control the acceptable paths forward?

If a story does not serve your interests, release it. It is a set of shackles you wear in service to someone or something else’s power.

The story of patriotism shackles you to the interests of the nation you were born into. That nation is a story. Do you truly want to die for that story? How does your death serve you.

Your family or culture or religion is likewise a story. Ask yourself: cui bono? Who benefits?

Capitalism, communism, socialism, Christianity, Daoism, Buddhism are all stories.

Do they serve us? Can I dip into them an exploit them without being taken advantage of?

That is the question I always ask.

My story is about me. It is truly the only story that matters to me after spending most of my life martyring myself on the altars of stories that didn’t serve me.

So I am here spreading this story about stories as servants rather than masters in hopes of corrupting the younger generations. Save yourselves decades of suffering and see the morals, institutions, ideologies, and religions for what they are. They are just stories and you can control them. You can be your own storyteller.

To practice storytelling, look at existing stories and write your own. Write essays about every single aspect of reality.

The story I want to tell you is that you can be in control. You don’t have to be a victim of truth, falsehood, past, present, future, morality, or expectation.

Your life is yours. Use it wisely. And remember that you are the source of all wisdom.

Everything else that passes for wisdom is the murmuring of dead men who could write and inflict their stories on us all.

If a story isn’t useful, then let that story die. You owe it nothing.

May tradition die and innovation reign. May your stories create a world that no one has imagined before. May consensus reality fall.