A thought I had while arguing a point & thought I would share. The point presented was that we crave drama in our lives, drama that mimics a fairy tale.

What we want out of life are tangible sign posts along the way of our life’s journey, not drama. We want moments of sublime importance to usher us into our next life phase. Drama is a poor man’s substitute that doesn’t quite fit the bill.

Plus – I think many of us have had too much drama in our lives and that doesn’t make our lives any more like a fairy tale. It certainly doesn’t fill any void either.

What we are genetically (physiogenically that is) predisposed to needing are the “magical moments of threshold crossing”. Or, to use a more universal term, rites of passage.

The drama is a substitute for the fact that the predominant religion of the 20th Century and beyond (that would be Science), has stripped us of those all-important rites of passage that our psyches have relied upon for hundreds of thousands of generations, leaving us adrift is a sea of primordial subconsciousness desperately looking for signposts.