The Storytellers stories

 

The Dark Ages

 

Imagine how it would be to spend a lifetime constantly tuned into the story of a world that you think of as real and never experiencing what it really is to be alive and connected.

 

Back in the first half of the 21st Century the world was full of people who lived like that. That’s how it was in the Dark Ages when people never stopped thinking.

 

Men and women were constantly caught up in a story and it never occurred to them to take a break from that very personal prison of preoccupation to experience this Universe simply, without the endless distraction of their human thoughts

 

Imagine a lifetime of noisy distraction - that constant business cutting you off from the rest of the world. You, busy feeding the thought of who you are and what’s going on into the never-ending story of a lifetime

 

Imagine the darkness that must have been, always thinking yourself being a separate individual, never experiencing what it is to be truly connected and alive in this wholeness; this presence that manifests wonderously, way beyond our limited human understanding

 

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From where we are now, we can see how that thinking way of life was so disconnected - after all, the story can only ever be such a desperately poor and needy relation to this richness of living experience and it inevitably makes that sort of exclusively human engagement with life terribly sad, and ultimately disconnected, discontented and delusional

 

Is it surprising that, while people in those dark times knew from the evidence that they were destroying the planet they lived on, they conspired to preserve a sort of cultural blindness - a general ignorance, if you like, or you might even say an unspoken agreement - to see no connection between the way they had chosen to put all their trust in the sum of human knowledge and humanity’s stories about the future - completely ignoring the possibility and the power

of simply reconnecting with the whole living universe right now - and the state of the world.

 

In the Dark Ages, anything that wasn’t something to think about might as well not exist!

 

In those days people dismissed the thought of having regular periods of uncluttered stillness and quiet in their lives - they never wanted to take time away from their noisy and insistent mind talk - and tragically, many of those human millions continued to live unhappy lives in a world plagued with suffering and discontent without ever realising that they had a choice.

 

Engaging with an endlessly thought-filled mind was the only way to live that those people knew.

 

That’s the reason the first half of the 21st century became known as ‘The Dark Ages’ - People didn’t even know that they were living in the dark

 

And, as we know, the journey from the dark to the light only begins

when you realise that it’s dark

 

Realising that it is dark is the first step towards living in the light.