My Library

It was at the Carleton College retreat that I got to wondering why people think as they do, and why they are not open to information and data that contrasts or contradicts their realities. Up until then, I had believed that people just preferred being stupid or uninformed. But the majority of those at the retreat were by no means stupid. Two factors emerged from this wondering. One speaks to people ONLY in THEIR own terms -- or one is pissing into the wind. The second factor emerged about a year later -- and I dubbed it MENTAL INFORMATION PROCESSING GRIDS. I was then able to say that if one thinks they are dealing with people, well, they are in error. They are actually dealing with walking, talking information processing grids -- of which a great deal will be said in chapters ahead. I didn’t think my talks at the Carleton retreat went over very well -- especially when I said that we should dump everything thought to be known about Psi and simply start over on a new basis. But in the weeks ahead invitations to speak poured in from all directions. I met Robert Ashby at Carelton, and when he telephoned a few weeks later to invite me to Kansas City to talk, I asked why. I didn’t think I related to the public very well. "But you do!" he insisted. "People LIKE to consider larger pictures, but are seldom given the opportunity to do so. All things conspire to keep them fixated in small stuff. Please do come."