Steampunk Paper Doll Journal - Spread 25 - Great Stories

"Life is a treasure hunt for story. Gregory Bateson describes story as a little "knot or complex of that species of connectedness which we call relevance."  Thus we seek consciously or unconsciously, for those people and ideas whose stories seem relevant to our own.  Their stories illumine, run parallel to and fill in the missing gaps of our story.  Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.
Because Great Stories implicitly engage all manner of human function while seducing us with the passion and promise inherent in narrative, they are far more effective vehicles for transformation than volumes of didactic and theoretical material."
- Jean Houston (in 'The Search for the Beloved')(American author involved in the "human potential movement", who along with her husband, Robert Masters, she co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research)