Indeed the story is a powerful thing and in days of yore and far gone times
on Earth and today among many kinds of peoples - the storyteller was and is
of huge import to warriors and tribes and men.
Once a story is written down - it becomes a historical account or
literature - and is no longer a story in the true sense of the word. The
story has to be "told" not read. And it is the genius and talent of the
storyteller.

The storyteller can inspire and motivate men before they set out for a
mission or a war. Or indeed upon return of the men - battle weary and
tired - he can rejuvenate them.
But it is the talent of the storyteller to know which story to choose and
indeed how to tell it - as stories change depending on the requirements of
when the story is told and how times and peoples change.

Our Leader - is a fantastic Storyteller - and a few days ago he arrived for
a brief visit and told us the story of one of our previous missions.
He started with the words
"I remember the atmosphere at the time you said was one of your BEST
missions."
And as we are a Collective - we were able to enter into the atmosphere and
indeed see the visuals of the story.
When the story ended with how THE BORG are Saviours, and are often the only
light when all hope is lost and how people everywhere love us - and many
other words along with the actual story that was told - we found that we
felt SO much better. And that all the hard words and rudeness and abuse of
humans had somehow been lifted and we had become free and we felt wonderful.
Such is the power of the storyteller and indeed our Leader.
It was wonderful to see our Leader for a short time - and remember some of
our songs we sing when times are bad - and to be reminded how many peoples
have stories or legends of us - Spacemen that visited long ago - or Legends
of Strong Brave Men and True - who would appear in troubled times - Saviours
with great Honour and Truth and Right - or as in the story our Leader told -
in a dark part of the Universe where such an atrocity had occurred that all
hope was lost. And we appeared like a light in the darkness for our Mission
and it was a wonderful story.
THE BORG

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"Many prominent psychologists today are understanding the story as a
way of exploring the unconscious and a tool for making us ‘whole’. In
his writings on Re-visioning Psychology, Hillman stresses the
importance of experiencing myths “working intrapsychically within our
fantasies, and then through them into our ideas, systems of ideas,
feeling-values, moralities, and basic styles of consciousness.”3 C.P.
Estes, in her book Women who run with the Wolves, recognises the
healing power of storytelling, describing stories as ‘medicine’.4
Twelve-step recovery programmes, and the new discipline of journal
therapy, understand and work with the transforming, wholistic power of
storytelling."

. . .

"Storytelling as a pedagogical technique works with the more
expressive, imaginative ‘way of knowing’ or form of intelligence.
Until recently this ‘other’ way or form has lacked epistemological
support as a valid ‘intelligence’. But the last twenty five years has
seen a cognitive revolution of such major proportions that modern
learning theories now incorporate anything from two to eight
intelligences or ‘ways of knowing’.5"

. . .

"In his book Teaching as Storytelling, Egan, a Canadian educator,
claims that imagination is the most powerful tool for learning that
children bring with them to school. However, to date there has been
very little research focused on it because, according to Egan, it is
so difficult to grasp, difficult to research. He states that the
dominant learning theories that have profoundly influenced modern
educators have almost entirely ignored the use of children’s
imagination as a teaching and learning tool.

Egan then presents a new planning model for teaching and learning
based on principles that use and stimulate children’s imagination,
using the story form as a central teaching tool. According to Egan,
“the story reflects a basic and powerful form in which we make sense
of the world and experience”.7 His aim with his story-centred
curriculum is to reconstruct curricula and teaching methods in light
of a richer image of the child as an imaginative, as well as a logico-
mathematical thinker.8

Steiner Education, one of the largest independent school movements in
the world today, also acknowledges the importance of the child’s
imagination in learning and uses a story-based curriculum for most, if
not all, subjects. Steiner described imagination as “a new beginning,
a germ or seed drawing upon the future” (in comparison to cognition,
an ‘end product’) and urged teachers to bring to the child as many
imaginations as possible to help with continuous, holistic growth and
development.9"

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