Below the tangled pattern of events are experiences, psychological realities of passionate importance, a mythological substrate that gives the soul a feeling of destiny, an eschatological sense that what happens matters. And it matters to someone, to a person.
Without the person, without the individual’s sense of personal soul (that makeweight in the scales) we are simply pre-historic revenants with only collective destiny.
Without the sense of soul, we have no sense of history. We never enter it.
This core of soul that weaves events together into the meaningful patterns
of tales and stories recounted by reminiscing creates history. History is
story first and fact later.
— Senex & Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and Psychological Present, Senex & Puer, UE 3