A Return to the Perennial Questions

Abstract

Given the present world situation, the ideas presented in Chapter 7 appear inevitable to many people who devote time and thought to the task of ‘learning to think differently’. It should be equally obvious, however, that, of themselves, individually, these ideas lack the power to transform. And so they are being repeated, with variations, over and over again in seemingly endless discussion. We are unable to move forward; we are bogged down. To change the metaphor, we are still essentially imprisoned in the worldview of contemporary global culture. Our cell door is not actually locked, but we are paralysed and cannot open it and walk out despite knowing that freedom is necessary and possible.