New Versions of Old Stories

After viewing the last video, I saw how easy it is to introduce a new pattern into a story and exchange one lie for another. And right away, I experienced a perfect example, thanks to Olivia.

We were playing Cinderella and I was the stepmother and she was Cinderella. When playing with her, she will always feed you each line that she wants to hear! So when I'm playing her game, there is no room for creativity from me. (a truth I had not seen before I was introduced to the Busting Loose theory).

All of a sudden, she deviated from the story and said, "Pretend you aren't my stepmother now and that you are my real Mom." As she was giving me the lines that I was now supposed to say, I interrupted and said, "But Cinderella doesn't have a Mom - at least not in the "real" story". Not missing a beat she responds, "But we are just pretending and now you are the real Mom."

In that moment, I saw the new pattern being introduced, which changed the story completely. I've seen quite a few Disney videos with her, and I've seen the liberties that the movie makers have taken with the original stories (at least the stories we were told were original)! Sequels give a new ending. Prequels give a new beginning. Genius!

And we do it all the time. So does religion, and government, financial institutions and our education system. Write this piece of history in and take that piece out. Insert this new rule and make that one disappear.

Fascinating. Funny, I saw this within a few minutes of that last video that I didn't even agree with!!! I may never get to the end of the illusions I've created here. However, I'm having fun exploring the depths of the emotion that they contain and how easy it was to insert a lie for the Truth.

P.S. Olivia was waiting to play a new game as soon as I posted this. She said, "Pretned you don't like the light and so you have to hide over here in this dark corner." So I played along, and she had a sceptor in her hand that as soon as I got in the darker part of the room she turned on and touched my head with it so I wouldn't be afraid of the light anymore. Wow! Enlightenment! I have probably been more afraid of the Light than the dark, which is why I spent so much time hiding in evangelical religion.