“Humans
are a species that tell stories--they live their lives around stories that
give meaning and understanding. The telling of stories is not a simple act,
as writer Susan Griffin explains it, but a way of narrating events that gives
the listener ‘a path through those events that leads to some fragment
of wisdom’ by such transmission, consciousness is woven.”
Gary C. Bryner, Gaia’s
Wager, (2001), p. 177.
"We are pattern seeking, story-telling primates trying to make sense of a often chaotic and unpredictable world. A stage-theory (belief that stages of development pre-exist and we pass through these) works in a manner similar to a species classification, heuristic or an evolutionary sequence schema.”
Michael Shermer, “Stage Fright, Scientific America, November, 2008, p. 42.
