The Lyrian Consciousness' Love of Stories

Let's talk about stories. Specifically, let's talk about how the Lyrian consciousness as a species has such a deep love and need for stories.

Cats don't need stories. Canines don't need stories. They are and everything is, and it is good. Dragons certainly don't need stories as they see themselves as the makers of their world--they are the story incarnate. Why separate themselves from what they already are? Amphibians don't need stories. They need song, instead, as their world is dominated by the sound of everything everywhere.

Lyrians? Lyrians need stories. They cannot just be and it is good. They do not see themselves as the story incarnate (maybe intellectually, but instinctively, no). And while they also have a love of song, Lyrian songs are stories.

What is a story?

A story is a recounting of a series of events. Stories can be true, not true; linear, non-linear, semi-linear; fact, fiction; dream, real, astral; symbolic, allegoric, literal. All of these elements can be present in a story, and so a story is particularly flexible to whatever is needed to express the telling of the series of events.

What makes a story interesting, at least to a Lyrian, is the emotional attention given to the telling of the story. I could tell you a story about how sticks of gum are made on Earth. It could be a completely factual story filled with dry facts and figures. Yet I could make you interested in that story if I tell it with just the right amount of emotional inflection, intention, and expression.

Why do Lyrians need stories?

Every single Lyrian culture in existence in everywhere and everywhen has the habit of telling stories in some form or fashion. Every. Single. One. It doesn't matter if you're in Orion, Taygeta, Sirius, Sol...no matter. We all tell stories as a species. It's baked into the hardware. Some cultures have only oral traditions where stories are told in song or through a particular method of speech or poetry. Some cultures have written traditions, and each of those written traditions are as varied as those with oral traditions. And you will find many crossovers between cultures.

For example, one Earth culture I found fascinating was the Cherokee tribe in the Americas. They had no form of writing, but when they encountered European settlers, they were so fascinated by the concept, they created their own writing. Within a few months, they went from no writing at all to writing. That is remarkable. And the reason they took up the practice: so they could record their stories more accurately. They wanted to put their stories down in writing.

You could argue this changed their culture as they were an oral tradition society to begin with. Writing things down tends to solidify the culture. It takes the flowing, organic nature of their history and solidifies it. Which is better? I do not know. I suppose it's just a matter of preference.

Lyrians as a species love the sound of their own voices. There, I said it. We love to hear ourselves talk. It's why we are a verbal-telepathic species and not a telepathic species only. There's power in the voice of Lyrians. We speak things into being. We write things into being. The power of the word is not a joke. It's not something just made up on Earth as part of Christianity. It's a real truth. Words have power, written or spoken. They possess incredible creative power. This is the primary method by which the Lyrian species creates its reality.

And the most efficient method for verbally manifesting reality is through the telling of stories. Stories have their own logic, flow, and hypnotic cadence. Why do you think it's so easy to sit and listen to someone tell you a story that could last for hours and yet you feel no time has passed at all? It's the power of the word and the power of the story. When you listen to someone tell a story, or when you read a story, you go inside of that story-world. You go inside the realm created by the story, and it is a temporary realm unique to you and the storyteller.

As such, storytelling is actually a rather energetically intimate practice. It is also why only certain people were often gifted with the responsibility of maintaining the stories of a particular culture. The bard, the skald, the minstrel, the kathakar, the il'onari--all words to describe a person who maintains the stories of a culture--and all gifted with the ability to transport someone inside the story-world.

Your entire reality is also constructed via the stories you tell yourself about yourself. You do this unconsciously every moment of your life. It's a series of "I AM" statements on repeat, which is the chanted story of yourself told to yourself.

This is also why history is so controlled and confused, even among stellar cultures. It is muddling our creative power. The way to control Lyrians is to take control of the stories they tell each other and themselves. You take control of the stories, you change their reality to suit your purpose, because your story becomes their story.

If Lyrians wish to liberate themselves, they must first take command of their personal stories. Then, they must collectively take command of their culture's stories. Don't let anyone else tell you who you are as a people. Find the old stories. Repeat them. Take the current stories and retell them. Don't allow anyone outside of you change the story. You change the story. It doesn't mean you don't include new peoples into your stories, but you command that process. Not someone else.

I thank you for your time. Adiamas.

​--Kyriel