In Some Sense Man Is A Microcosm

Dialogue Is Really Aimed At Going Into The Whole Thought Process And Changing The Way The Thought Process Occurs Collectively. We Haven't Really Paid Much Attention To Thought As A Process. We Have Engaged In Thoughts, Put We Have Only Paid Attention To The Content, Not To The Process. Why Does Thought Require Attention? Everything Requires Attention, Really. If We Ran Machines Without Paying Attention To Them, They Would Break Down. Our Thought, Too, Is A Process, And It Requires Attention, Otherwise Its Going To Go Wrong.

It Is Proposed That A Form Of Free Dialogue May Well Be One Of The Most Effective Ways Of Investigating The Crisis Which Faces Society, And Indeed The Whole Of Human Nature And Consciousness Today. Moreover, It May Turn Out That Such A Form Of Free Exchange Of Ideas And Information Is Of Fundamental Relevance For Transforming Culture And Freeing It Of Destructive Misinformation, So That Creativity Can Be Liberated.

But The Way People Commonly Use The Word Nowadays It Means Something All Of Whose Parts Are Mutually Interdependent - Not Only For Their Mutual Action, But For Their Meaning And For Their Existence.

Ego-centeredness Is Not Individuality At All.

One Thus Sees That A New Kind Of Theory Is Needed Which Drops These Basic Commitments And At Most Recovers Some Essential Features Of The Older Theories As Abstract Forms Derived From A Deeper Reality In Which What Prevails In Unbroken Wholeness.