One of the best ways to learn things is by listening to other people’s stories. When you can really feel someone’s emotions, the memory will stick.
One of the truest statements is, “People rarely remember exactly what happened, but they sure remember how it made them feel.”
This just goes to show that feelings and emotions are the staying-powers for our brains. Storytelling is a great way to learn from other people’s experiences without actually having to experience them for yourself.
If you’ve done any kind of research on spirituality, you’ll find a pattern. Most deeply spiritual people have some kind of “dark” past that they had to go through in order to reach the spiritual maturity that they are now in.