Our stories and descriptions of ‘reality’ (which probably doesn’t exist in the way we commonly imagine), while they may contain reliable information (what we call facts), are not so much a result of these facts as they are the synergy between what is observed and »the purposes for which we are observing.

This is not a particularly novel idea; however it is extremely difficult to actually apprehend its significance. Let me restate it in a more dramatic form: The purposes for which we direct our attention must partly invent what is perceived… and this means that our purposes transform our senses, minds… and bodies… in ways no common description could hope to encompass.

More simply: Purposes give rise to other senses, some of which can detect phenomenon we would consider either impossible or unimaginable… to those who have not experienced it.

In common culture, purposes give birth to nations, corporations, and so on… and each of these is a world unto itself… and ‘sees’ the world only in the terms its purposes endow. This nearly universal phenomenon is obvious; yet few will detect its true significance… or the potentials for radically transforming our humanity that are far nearer at hand than common thinking would allow.