Students of the evolution of consciousness today offer a fascinating map of how we arrived where we are. It began, they say, in episodic consciousness – being intensely attentive to the situation around us. Listening to jungle noises, watching the movements of other animals. But as memory recorded things, we could observe how other sentient beings were behaving. Imitation, the best form of flattery, and an important element of survival, was generated. The next big step was the mythic level of consciousness. This is explained by the human need to understand why things are as they are and to construct explanations. But perhaps it was also just love of stories, the desire to complicate them and better reflect the reality we both inhabit and create. Then the internal critic awakened in