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Gregory Bateson's Allegory #bateson #myth #nlp #eriksonion hypnosis #integral

There was once a beautiful lady, whose habit it was to sleep on disused railroad tracks.

In that same country there lived also a brutal surveyor who ran the trains up and down the tracks. He was at heart an explorer and therefore was particularly attracted by those branches of the railroad system where no trains had passed within living memory. These were precisely those tracks where the lady delighted to slumber....

It is said that Gregory Bateson used story extensively in his teachings with great effect. This is an excerpt of Allegory written published in CoEvolution Quarterly in 1978.  Since we do not permission to reproduce, we invite you to follow the link to this intriguing tale and the come back and post your thoughts about it and what it stirs in you. With which character do you indentify with more?