Doug Hamilton writes snipped: Good stories often turn on a presence of mind that has someone stand resolved. Well told stories do tell what someone was thinking or doing `walking in those shoes' and sometimes a good story just helps you stand where someone stood for a moment.
TomT: Susan Herzberger (a TMer in FF who has been awake since 85) explained it as story has the ability to by pass all the alarms of the modern and sophisticated mind and get directly to the reptilian mind where the message is taken in whole hog. Seems great teachers use them to change minds without the permission of those listening to the story. Tom
