Open the door

As a story-teller, you open a door.  You open the door to the imagination.  What does this mean? 

A physical change happens to the brain when one listens to or reads a story.  As Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Magical Child, says:

"In Storytelling, the stimulus of words brings about the production of inner images, an extraordinary creative play involving the entire brain.  Each new story requires a whole new set of neural connections and reorganizations of visual activity within--a major challenge for the brain."

So, when we tell our stories, we are providing exercise for the readers' and the listeners' brains.  We are opening new pathways of understanding within their brains.

The figure in the doorway:  that's you, the story-teller.  But it is also you, the reader and the listener.