[MrLeap]

Remember we're all a co-emergent phenomena. Nobody is ever one thing, we're all affecting and affected by each other simultaneously all the time.

I think you're very near to understanding one of the core uses of story telling. Story telling can be a method of data compression, both cognitively and for transfering ideas to other people. The bitrate of our language is much lower than that of our imaginations. We use tricks to span the gap.

"The heroes journey" can be wielded the same way as a binary tree. They're both data structures for representing abstractions. You need a fuzzier data structure to encode our fuzzy reality.

I suspect if you and I worked together, you'd bring the storyteller out of me. Course details and dotted outlines are the matte and canvas for fine detail.

When I work with grand storytellers, it brings out my inner architect. Some people have strong psychic gravity, others aggressively fill vacuums. We all do a little of both and at different amounts depending on where we are in space and time.