>>15499

I've been thinking a lot about this same subject recently, and I might have some insight into how to access your "files."

Everything that you've learned since this incarnation began forms the framework with which you understand your reality. If you had a memory of something that you experienced before this incarnation, it would appear jumbled and "messy" when interpreted through your current framework. I wonder if that may be why rulers expend so much effort into changing things arbitrarily, because radically changing your framework makes it much more difficult to access older memories.

One specific point of note for me is language. If you wanted to access memories from before (or the early stages of) civilization, to understand how our current world came to be, you would need to eliminate language from your framework. To add to that, I would note that our biological minds function in the quantum world, yet language is firmly grounded in the classical world. I note that our perception of time can change radically in different situations (flow states, dreams) and wonder if that is a result of our brain functioning at a quantum level.

>>15503

Remember that you are the result of an uninterrupted series of victories spanning millions of years.

>>15513

>the key must lay somewhere in the fact that we both can feel it: two totally different individual "strangers"…Can we both be the hero?

I strongly believe that every single story (there are actually only a small number when you break it down) we tell is true, but some of the details are changed to make it fresh. You feel a strong connection to heroic epics because those stories were inspired and originally told by people just like yourself, and you're not even close to being alone in this.

If even 1 in 100 people have the potential to be a hero, imagine how many people that is with a population of 8,000,000,000? It's better than even that though, as perhaps the most extraordinary thing that heroes can do is inspire people to better themselves, leading by example rather than the commands that rulers use. And we have had a great many generations since the first recorded heroes planted their seeds, so that today there are a spectacular number of heroes around the globe.

>>15534

>What if Some People Out There in the World Are Not Like Us?

So, here's something real interesting on the history of the equality movement:

In 1215 a rebellion of barons forced King John (the same Prince John from Robin Hood) to sign the Magna Carta, which established the idea that all men were equal under the law.

Now, apparently, nearly every single US president other than Martin Van Buren and Donald Trump are descended from King John.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183858/All-presidents-bar-directly-descended-medieval-English-king.html

I've been busy on other tracks, so I haven't really dug any further than that, but I find it one really interesting connection between the very beginning of equality as a social ideal and modern times.

More in general, the notion of all people being fundamentally equal is obviously false, provable beyond the shadow of a doubt by simply referencing significant birth defects.

The difference between equality as a legal concept and equality as a fundamental concept touches on something much larger that I'm working on, but I'll leave it at that right now.

>>15546

If you consider the state of the world before any sort of mass communication/transportation, the only thing a person knew much about was the world directly around them. In such a setting, when survival was a daily struggle, the hero's story is the every day story of the individual for most. As society grows it increasingly demands further separation between the individual and that basic state of being, where you are the hero of your own story.

>>15545

>define npc.

I'm still developing this idea further, but to keep it simple we live in two worlds simultaneously: the natural world as it exists externally to us, and the human world that we have created to escape the suffering and hardships encountered in the natural world. I would define an NPC as someone who is fully devoted to their role in the human world, to the exclusion (and often denial) of the natural world. Someone who has given up the role of the hero in their own story to seek shelter and protection from another.

>>15548

As stated, I want to expand upon this.

Through my life I've met a number of friends who had been so traumatized by something or other that they sought escape from their past by building a facade that pretended it had never happened. The worst was someone who had developed severe multiple personalities. As a result of these experiences I feel a strong desire to understand just what is it in this world that is so horrible as to make a person desire to abandon themselves to escape it, so that I can help them overcome it and reclaim their own story.

Where I'm at right now on this quest is reconciling the self-centered story of the hero with the desire to live together with others and the needs of the young and the vulnerable, for simply abandoning those who are weak at the moment rubs me the wrong way. I'd be condemning myself, as there will almost certainly come a time where I will run up against something too large to defeat on my own. The answer, I believe, is the social contract: recognizing that it is only when both the efforts of society are for the good of the people, and the efforts of the people are for the good of society, that there can be peace. I think this is probably related to the "51% service to others" idea that I've seen floated around here.

It all reminds me strongly of the famous quote "with great power comes great responsibility." And it is for those reasons that I want to switch up the language "hero" and "npc" that I use here for "awake" and "asleep," which I think are also good descriptors that puts less of a negative spin on the people who need help the most right now. I feel it is important however to recognize that labeling people this way is never going to be capable of properly capturing the complexities of reality no matter how hard you try (and the attempt to nail labels down too firmly is responsible for many tragedies).