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“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“No story should ever be considered as final, nor a rigid telling, but as a prompt to either investigate or meditate upon it. In other words, the story, provided it has at least some discernible depth, ought to be a medium, a prompt to one’s higher self to look beyond the naked narrative. Throughout the ages, until recently, the words story and history were interchangeable in meaning. Storial is now an obsolete word, but if something was, what you would call, historically accurate, then it was storial — not historical.

Stories and histories entangle. Stories can disentangle, and liberate.

This is one of the keys to conscious presence. One of the keys to lucidity.

Stories have that potential, they carry that power within them. Whether they are used to entangle, entertain, or disentangle, depends on the intent and the wisdom of the storyteller. This is an essential truth, valid for any story that has ever been told.
In choosing to let go of the stories which have entangled you into a lilliputian presence, you make room for the story which can not only dis-entangle, but expand your capacity as an individual, and bring you into the presence of ultimate realization. That is the might of the story.

Remember this. As you would take a key and place it in your pocket, take this information, fully aware and conscious of taking it, and save it.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh

“There are energies in this world which have been around for aeons. Not only witnessing the changes of coats and fashions, but the shifts of coasts and landscapes. The span may seem overwhelming or be unimaginable from the point of view of a single transient lifetime, but it is just energy dancing through time and space, manifesting tangible miracles. Human beings are one such miracle.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh

“If you engage with someone as if they are faulty, or somehow inferior, you are attempting to direct or assign them to the low-range spectrum. Of course, none is obliged to accept these implications, but certain constructs make it near impossible to reject them. In the Artificium, parents regularly do this with their children. Already the imposing of authority, usually explained as a necessary teaching of discipline and manners, is a subterfuge method of control. The key aspect here is the imposition of authority. In lieu of authority, there should be respect, and respect is always earned. However, in taking the authority route, parents insist on obedience. Thus, they help instill the parameters for obedience later on. Obedient children become obedient adults. Obedient of what? It does not matter... Whatever the authority figure says is right. In this manner, parents can almost guarantee a smooth transition towards servitude or serfdom of their children later in life. In other words, they help raise slaves ― to authority.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh