Real Dialogue Is Where Two Or More

Thus, In A Dialogue Each Person Does Not Attempt To Make Common Certain Ideas Or Items Of Information That Are Already Known To Him. Rather, It Can Be Said That Collectively They Are Making Something In Common

What Is Needed Is To Learn Afresh, To Observe, And To Discover For Ourselves The Meaning Of Wholeness.

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.

The System [of Thought] Doesn't Stay With The Difficult Problem That Produces Unpleasant Feelings. It's Conditioned Somehow To Move As Fast As It Can Toward More Pleasant Feelings, Without Actually Facing The Thing That's Making The Unpleasant Feeling.

Thought Reflexes Get Conditioned Very Strongly, And They Are Very Hard To Change. And The Also Interfere. A Reflex May Connect To The Endorphins And Produce An Impulse To Hold That Whole Pattern Forther. In Other Words, It Produces A Defensive Reflex. Not Merely Is It Stuck Because It's Chemically So Well Built Up, But Also There Is A Defensive Reflex Which Defends Against Evidence Which Might Weaken It. Thus It All Happens, One Reflex After Another After Another. It's Just A Vast System Of Reflexes. And They Form A 'structure' As They Get More Rigid.