The natural operations of the physical world are not dependent on man;
not the planet’s rotation; not the laws of gravity or thermodynamics;
not the process of photosynthesis;
they exist completely apart any story-telling/explanations by man,
but the other world & reality in which man simultaneously lives,
the second, non tangible world of culture has no existence other than his story-telling.
 

From the passing human view, the physical world is permanent;
the planet on which you live –  the universe itself –
was here when you arrived, and will be here when you depart,
and left untouched, the conditions of the physical world outside of man are,
relative to him, unchanging (the mountains, oceans, forests),
but in his second reality is no permanency:
boulders are stable --  story-telling is not;
the atmosphere outside of man is steady --  that inside him, anything but.
 

Consciousness = thinking and thinking = story-telling;
story-telling is fluid and unfixed, and without this characteristic,
consciousness would serve no purpose;
its ability to think of the otherwise permanent conditions of
the physical world in unrestrained, story-telling terms
is what makes possible man’s manipulations thereof to his benefit.
No story-telling  --   no progress;
no story-telling  --   no civilization to begin with.
 

If thought did not consist entirely of story-telling about man’s environment
as opposed to totally programmed physical reactions to the environment,
man would be living a life not substantially different from other animals,
simply taking the conditions of life as they come,
but by having the inner talent of story-telling,
man’s brain is able to imagine natural conditions in unnatural poses,
and pass the pictures to his muscles who can turn dreams into reality.
 

Without the brain’s story-telling about the physical world,
man would have no science, technology, or medicine,
and his life would bear no resemblance to the one he now leads.
 

Story-telling however, plays an additional role;
besides making the physical world a better place for man to live in,
it has created a whole other, non physical world that lives in man.
The part of the brain that produces consciousness has imprinted in it
the entire plans for this second reality;
it exists only here, and its material manifestations that man erects in the physical world bear as much relationship to their neural reality as do flags to the notions of nationalism that spawned them,
or xmas tree ornaments to the spiritual idea they purport to celebrate;
education is of the second reality, and the campus of a university is not education --
--  the blueprint in men’s consciousness of it is.
The physical structures attendant to matters in man’s second reality
are but totally dependent corollaries of the neural concept behind them;
remove the story-telling from churches, colleges and congresses,
and their buildings become imposing empty shells with nothing to offer.
The second reality certainly has its material props,
but without the overt presentations of the story-telling that begat them,
they are as impotent as are a film studio’s without a script.
As in their first role, story-telling can make muscles take actions driven strictly by second reality concerns, but as self observation clearly shows,
very seldom does this occur;
almost all of a man's inner story-telling remains nothing but that.
 

Every single item that man’s mind treats as existing but which his hands cannot touch is nothing but story-telling  --  pure, plain and simple;
this constitutes no criticism of the story-tellings --
merely puts them in proper context.
Story-telling is as necessary to the non tangible, second reality in which
man spends an ever increasing amount of his life --  in his thoughts --
as it is to the physical reality in which he spends the entire life of his body.
No story-telling --  no culture;
no art, no music, no literature, no sports, no politics, no mythology,
no philosophy, no religion, no psychology, sociology, anthropology, no history;
none of the kinds of things that not only take up the greater part of most men’s lives, but are considered of most importance therein.
People --  civilized people --  will commonly skip meals to save money for new clothing, or by pass sex to watch a game, or go without sleep to attend a concert.

It is a fact: a second reality exists --
and it would not were it not for man, and it would not did man not have consciousness, and its ability to tell stories,
and this story-telling-based-reality is an integral part of normal human existence,
and indeed at any given instant  in any person’s life
it may hold a position momentarily superior to even survival needs –
--  now that is a powerful reality!  --   even if you cannot touch it.
But make no mistake: everything in that reality  --
--  everything concerning that reality is nothing more than story-telling.
No matter whether the subject of the story is called, spiritual, serious and non fiction,
or labeled fanciful and mere entertaining --   they are all just story-telling;
that is all thought is capable of; only muscles can actually do;
story-telling-thought can cause muscles to do,
but they themselves are do-less........................and yet –
story-telling is so important to man’s normal existence --  its influence so strong
that its inability to actually do-anything but tell stories is constructively ignored.
 

If your desire is to understand what being a human in this universe is about,
beyond all of the story-telling ordinarily available, on the subject,
then the position, purpose and nature of the brain’s story-telling cannot be ignored;
indeed, just the complete comprehension thereof is more than enough to
force open your cloudy inner eyes/I’s.
If you see clearly for yourself the distinction between what herein is being
expediently referred to as: doing, and, story-telling,
and recognize for yourself the obvious existence of a second,  intangible world
in which men naturally live, in addition to the physical one,
and realize that this other reality consists of nothing but story-telling --
--  after that you can no longer dream, be hypnotized and fooled by life as before.

                                                       J