In recovering from my trauma or changing my personality structure, however you look at it, ask that at some point I will have to change the story about myself.
What did I believe in, what do I believe in now? What story did I adapt?
Without a story, I have no structure. I live from moment to moment `under some form of anchor. I believe that’s what psychosis feels like. No anchor, and a lot of unrelated reactivity in me. Total chaos.
So there are little stories about me and big stories about the world, about the herd, or even the universe has its stories. Thus, people long had dominant stories about gods or self]s an omnipresent god. I myself do not believe in a single god but do believe in a lot of good. That, too, is a story. A perspective greater than a single moment of being me. Because I can’t attach to anything else. Then I can’t orient myself, organize the world around me. The same goes for the society around me as a whole. With a bigger story, I can place here and there and yesterday and tomorrow.
And out of those great stories come manners and a moral goodness. To move from respect for each other and the world. If necessary, without the concept of a single god as the great conceptual moralist outside of me.
