Lifecentric
Buzz Submitted by : Dr. Ali Anani
Buzz : A Simple Approach to Storytelling
Dr Ali Anani offers a Simpler Approach to Storytelling
We are neither in the golden age but nor are we in the dark ages, but if we use the modern barometer of storytelling we may as well be. Both myself and Ali Anani see the value of the hero's journey where there is either light at the end of the dark tunnel or as his buzz shows a whole new way of thinking arises that replaces the frame or meme that existed before.
In my Paradox Wisdom #29 "The Time before Dying" I was exploring another facet which is applicable to the storytelling culture we are in today and that is something I described as a deathcentric culture. The buzz for #29 was focused on the BEFORE and not the dying and thus the focus on what I must do at a personal level to invite myself into a lifecentric culture.
In a lifecentric culture death is a subset of spirit and not the antithesis of it, without death, spirit has no meaning, but there is an antithesis to spirit and this antithesis is the abyss. This is what we actually fear which is nothingness or a vacuum where one is eternally alone, but death gives us our ancestors and it gives us new life, it is not different from spirit, it is a constituent part of spirit. It is when we think death is an antithesis and our central focus, then our stories change.
The hero does not represent a lifecentric culture, and there is a problem with being heroic, and that problem is that we exist in a culture which is a constant fight for what is right and good. That means we never get to a lifecentric culture or a golden age because our story reaches a point of victory or success but not beyond that where victory and success are no longer important values, for at that point they are a part of the emergence, much like fusion rather than nuclear power that creates dangerous radioactive waste products.
If our culture is based on an idea of success and victory and relies on the heroic value to sustain it, after a while it will get tired of the heroic and begin to welcome the anti-heroic. We are in that kind of culture today and our news is just one example of the needle moving to a deathcentric culture.
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CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #7
Dear Ali \ud83d\udc1d Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBee I think I can expand on this area of storytelling and I have jotted this down as a "Renaissance post" that will be first buzz of 2018, I look forward to writing that one !
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #6
For me The Hero's Journey is a doorway that Joseph Campbell explained that led me to his work on Mythos. Once I got acquainted with Mythos, it totally changed my outlook, perspective and view of mythology and showed me just how much of our rituals and societal interaction is informed by the mythological. Mythos - Joseph Campbell (1st of a Five Video Series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bny-U3XlqxY
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #5
Lots of hugs back Fatima. When it comes to the movie metaphor, our memories may be movies but the way I live in the present right now, I feel present and totally here. I don't want to be an actor, I want to be a human being - at least in the present moment. I am sure there are authentic actors but human beings don't have to be called authentic if they are truly human - just be human that is challenging enough in this elitist pretension we call authentic branding. :Let me introduce you to a cover song by Brandi Carlile that is what I think of authentic branding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy53GU8PT08
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #4
Thanks Fatima, the best gift is a comment like yours because if Christmas Day should mean anything, it should be the most positive of connections. We are 2 hours into Christmas Day here in Canada and I can hear the snow plough machine grinding and clearing our road, that means that as I sit comfortable in bed ready to go to sleep, someone is out there in the early morning, clearing the way for the rest of us and simply recognizing that brings a different form of connection, one that views that person's work as a gift. Wait, I just took a look from my window and it is two private contractors cleaning the driveway of our neighbour - are you kidding me it is 2am and those neighbours can't be bothered to whip out a shovel during the day - amazing how context changes everything. Then of course I do forget that they spend countless hours on ensuring they upkeep their personal brand, as anyone else who pays that kind of attention to their brand, to them I'll pass on saying Merry Christmas and instead replace it with the words "Elitist Pigs" :-) Happy Christmas Fatima !!!
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #3
Thank you Melissa, coming from a heart like yours, it is appreciated just as deeply by me.
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #2
As you said the relationship between life and death is fundamental but the anti-hero is a dissatisfaction with myth, while creating new myths based on that dissatisfaction. It is an easier response than to be lifecentric yet it also does not send us into the abyss. There is a certainty in the deathcentric way of looking at things but it is not life-affirming, it is abyss-avoiding. For Joel Anderson he has to be lifecentric, there is no choice in Joel's life to choose otherwise, because his mind and heart are confronting some many fundamental realities that he does not have the luxury of seeking comfort in the anti-hero. Escaping from myth is a luxury but Joel is facing hardcore realities and psychologically and physically, these multiple array of challenges that he see's all around him require a form of resilience that only the most highest form of intelligence can support. What Joel needs is the time to breath as life's circumstances appear in a myriad directions and at the core of lifecentric is to get back to our own breath. The troubles of this world can begin to take that breath from us and so we must breath in life again, and know that to be life giving ourselves be must not be extinguished by life's circumstances, otherwise the scaffolding from actual abyss become removed. Since we take for granted the spiritual scaffolding that we do have, we have the luxury to embrace the anti-hero. Joel does not need a proxy to know what life is showing him, he needs breath that brings heart and lungs into a state of vitality and a will that knows that these dark moments shall welcome better days. In such time the refrain our breath can be touched by the words of Julian of Norwich “All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
CityVP Manjit
6 years ago #1
As you said the relationship between life and death is fundamental but the anti-hero is a dissatisfaction with myth, while creating new myths based on that dissatisfaction. It is an easier response than to be lifecentric yet it also does not send us into the abyss. There is a certainty in the deathcentric way of looking at things but it is not life-affirming, it is abyss-avoiding. For Joel Anderson he has to be lifecentric, there is no choice in Joel's life to choose otherwise, because his mind and heart are confronting some many fundamental realities that he does not have the luxury of seeking comfort in the anti-hero. Escaping from myth is a luxury but Joel is facing hardcore realities and psychologically and physically, these multiple array of challenges that he see's all around him require a form of resilience that only the most highest form of intelligence can support. What Joel needs is the time to breath as life's circumstances appear in a myriad directions and at the core of lifecentric is to get back to our own breath. The troubles of this world can begin to take that breath from us and so we must breath in life again, and know that to be life giving ourselves be must not be extinguished by life's circumstances, otherwise the scaffolding from actual abyss become removed. Since we take for granted the spiritual scaffolding that we do have, we have the luxury to embrace the anti-hero. Joel does not need a proxy to know what life is showing him, he needs breath that brings heart and lungs into a state of vitality and a will that knows that these dark moments shall welcome better days. In such time the refrain our breath can be touched by the words of Julian of Norwich “All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”