> 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
>
> "ta" nc.rr.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d6d24598-aeff-4d10-881b-223228a10e5a@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> "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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