Second Order Effects, Such As

To Use Words To Sense Reality Is Like Going With A Lamp To Search For Darkness.

Who Rules Our Symbols, Rules Us.

If We, Who Live Outside Asylums, Act As If We Lived In A Fictitious World- That Is To Say, If We Are Consistent With Our Beliefs- We Cannot Adjust Ourselves To Actual Conditions, And So Fall Into Many Avoidable Semantic Difficulties. But The So-called Normal Person Practically Never Abides By His Beliefs, And When His Beliefs Are Building For Him A Fictitious World, He Saves His Neck By Not Abiding By Them. A So-called "insane" Person Acts Upon His Beliefs, And So Cannot Adjust Himself To A World Which Is Quite Different From His Fancy.

If All People Learned To Think In The Non Aristotelian Manner Of Quantum Mechanics, The World Would Change So Radically That Most Of What We Call "stupidity" And Even A Great Deal Of What We Consider "insanity" Might Disappear, And The "intractable" Problems Of War, Poverty And Injustice Would Suddenly Seem A Great Deal Closer To Solution.

Identification Makes General Sanity And Complete Adjustment Impossible. Training In Non-identity Plays A Therapeutic Role With Adults.