So welcome everybody. We're concluding our conversation about the seventh story today. And of course, like, for us, we'll never conclude this conversation. And I hope if the seventh story is true, that that conversation, it will never stop because it's more

like a laboratory to experiment with the stories we live back and to ask ourselves, what

leads us more toward love?

What leads us more toward courage to creativity and to community.

You can tell that a story is broken if it leads you to separation, scapegoating and selfishness.

And that's what we've been trying to present this angle on storytelling that there are six primary stories

that you could call stories of separation, scapegoating and selfishness, stories of us versus

them, stories in which the ego is the protagonist.

And we've called these the domination story, the revolution story, the purification story,

the isolation story, the victimization story, and the accumulation story.

We've said often in this season that each of these stories is a response to a legitimate need in the world.

The problem is it's just not a wise response to that legitimate need.

But if you look at the needs that underpin each of the six stories and ask yourself, what would

a seventh story version of that story look like?

You might find that you move from domination into servant leadership.

You might find that you move from revolution or a vengeance-based overthrowing

of oppressive power into a story that holds boundaries but also promotes restorative justice.

You might move from a purification story that externalizes blame onto other people

and says they're the problem. You might move from that story into self-reflection about how the line

between good and evil doesn't run between one group and another or between one person and another,

but down the center of every

person. You might move from the isolation story that says the way to get peace and security is to

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