| Our thoughts really belong to the collective | | | | or contradictory information reaches a critical |
| consciousness of the world in all of time. | | | | mass do we acknowledge it. |
| Our individual minds process the cumulative | | | | This resistance to fresh insight is common to |
| database recorded on the physical and subtle | | | | everyone regardless of culture, background, |
| levels and devise interesting combinations, unique | | | | intelligence, and educational level. |
| interpretations, and random permutations. When | | | | Yet confronting resistance is another force, an |
| this assemblage of information is startling enough, | | | | irresistible compulsion to overcome stasis and |
| we hail it as an expression of genius. | | | | discover anew. Consequently, what happens is |
| The pattern of human thinking is designed to hold | | | | that people and societies do change, but slowly, |
| homeostatic belief systems. This has great | | | | very slowly, because the dynamism of new |
| survival value for establishing consensus reality. | | | | paradigms are always slowed down by the drag |
| Our minds love to believe that our particular | | | | of old paradigms. |
| interpretation of events is true. And, if others | | | | To transcend the built-in limitations of our minds |
| disagree with us, it only convinces us that our | | | | to resist fresh ideas is an act of will. We must |
| experience of the world is the authentic one. | | | | choose to question the nature of our beliefs. We |
| We establish the dominance of our world-view | | | | must choose to be interested in other |
| through selective filtering patterns. This is why | | | | perspectives. |
| every fresh interpretation of knowledge, every | | | | When we surrender our view that we know |
| invention, every innovation is met with violent | | | | something, when we are willing to entertain the |
| opposition. | | | | discomfort of an alternative answer, and when |
| In fact, given the remarkable gravitational pull of | | | | we prefer curiosity to pride, we step into the |
| any established view, it's almost miraculous when | | | | realm of possibility thinking. |
| a new paradigm claws its way out of the slime of | | | | Possibility thinking is a heroic act because it allows |
| resistance into the clear light of acceptance. | | | | the future to break from the past. It allows for a |
| Homeostasis is maintained through two factors: | | | | flow of new probabilities and outcomes. |
| pride and denial. We use the emotion of pride to | | | | Our future depends on those who dare to think |
| defend a cherished position and we use the | | | | beyond the confines of orthodoxy. |
| mechanism of denial to suppress anything that | | | | Possibility thinking is the child of evolution. |
| contradicts our position. Only when the opposing | | | | |