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The Medium Newsletter for today ~ Does science fiction teach us how to feel?
In E.T., a boy learns to care for an alien. In Lilo & Stitch, a genetically engineered creature becomes part of a young girl’s family. Writer and illustrator Gabriel Quinteroargues these movies don’t just entertain — they teach children how to feel. Citing research by psychologist Paul L. Harris, he explains that kids use fiction to simulate unfamiliar perspectives. When a child imagines what it’s like to be scared, lonely, or far from home, they start building emotional templates for experiences they haven’t had. And when adults ask questions like “Why do you think the alien is sad?” they help sharpen that emotional awareness. The next time the child sees someone left out or afraid, they’re more likely to recognize it and care.
A 2024 study in Communication Research likewise investigates how science fiction cultivates emotional perspective in adults. The researchers found that people who regularly engaged with the genre felt a stronger sense of connection to humanity as a whole. The key driver was awe, a feeling associated with vastness, uncertainty, and the recognition of being part of something larger. Science fiction prompts readers and viewers to imagine planetary threats, distant futures, and forms of life beyond their own. In doing so, it encourages them to see themselves not just as individuals, but as members of a shared species. By placing human life in a broader context, science fiction makes it easier to care about people outside our orbit.
Both Quintero and the 2024 study show how fiction teaches us to care beyond ourselves. For a child, imagining the loneliness of a stranded alien builds the instinct to care for someone unfamiliar. For an adult, science fiction stories that explore distant futures or planetary threats evoke a deeper sense of connection to humanity as a whole. Both foster connection with others, even when they seem strange or far away.
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Permalink Reply by Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ..aka Reɪvən ღ on
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Well thats sad but where is the argument, can you link me to this please..
Tara said:I don’t much like visiting here myself. It’s almost always an arguement. I just don’t know what to do anymore.
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Exactly, yes.. but the New Age religion is also indoctrinating and brainwashing folk, by using ET's as the lure or pulling point, because so many people have had sightings of UFO's now.. but the made up stuff they spread is actually very damaging to say someone who isnt able to discern what is Truths & Untruths.
Julie said:"Well thats what we are actually doing now as adults, breaking down the old indoctrinated programming our parents pushed on us unknowingly and this ascends our consciousness above the 3D reality consciousness. or as some call it ascension.." Yes for sure Vlada
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Permalink Reply by Tara on
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Hmm
multidimensional beings as we are becoming probably are in more than one “place”
at a time
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Does that mean we are surrounded by higher dimensional beings that we are just not seeing?
her response 7:56
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Permalink Reply by Julie on
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maybe we are Tara!
what's to say we are each leading lives on many "platforms" interacting with other parts of ourselves?
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Multi Dimensional Reality
The world as you know it - all that you see, taste, feel and touch, comprises only about 5% of all of the stuff of the universe. The other 95% is what we have considered "nothing" or the "firmament" or dark matter or the heavens or mystic Other Worlds. This 95% is multi-dimensional and consists of potential realities that may be perceived.
A single thought...a mere whisper, ...... barely upon a breeze that catches a spark... all is tinder before the firestorm... and yet.
ONLY that whisper
ONLY that thought
the world is forever changed beyond the fears and dreams of cardboard men.
Freedom and change starts within:
It is encouraged by truth and courage of people who love
Built by the respect of true beings standing as one before each other.
Lets us cross every man made borders
without fear stare into eyes and hearts of all our brothers and sisters: within our words without shouting,or force to hold each to our truths; and let us without fear freely share what works...
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