Foreword 17

I must say that Collin has not always agreed with my language, but I had it my way anyway. The reader can be the judge of how my vocabulary works and is also invited to find his/her own words to describe the complex and ambiguous representations of the mysteries of the human mind.

Sometimes the mysteries of the human mind are so mysterious that no theory can provide an explanation that would come even close to the truth as it is experienced by an individual human being. Therefore we have used a lot of poetry and quotes that might open up new visions for thinking and understanding. Stephen Hawking said, “The best theories are poetic creations.” We think that the best poetic creations can be most valuable theories.

A word of caution: this book is not easy to read, though the ideas and the action-learning model are taken from life itself. The fact that the English language is foreign for me is one reason, but another is that the way of representing the idea is new and might give an impression of mystery or confusion.

I wish the reader to have patience to go deeply into the text and illustrations. Then she or he might get the same feeling as one of my listeners. I was lecturing about the topic of the book for a group of media people. When I concluded my one and half hour presentation, the room became totally quiet. The silence took about five minutes (that is a long time after a presentation, believe me!) and I was already beginning to wonder what went wrong. Finally somebody said, “It became quite silent here.” Right after this, a woman started to speak, beginning, “But she was talking about my life…”, and she continued telling her story. After her, another person told her story, and then another…