Jack Preston King
2023
From: Chapter 1: THE BOXES WE DREAM IN This is not a book about the world's problems. This is a book about the thinking we used when creating the problems we face.It offers powerful keys for unlocking some of the major "boxes" our thinking, as a species, has been trapped within for millennia. Unlocking those boxes and breaking free of the concepts around which we have organized the present state of our world will allow us to return to the consideration of global events with a new mind. From that new perspective, our difficulties will be, if not always less serious, at least consistently different from our current understanding. They won't be the same problems, because we will have changed. Our reality must follow. Because of the transformation of our thinking, we will be free to design and implement creative solutions to the challenges we face that will surprise and delight us. Our global shift from stagnation to inspirationwill transform the world. These keys work equally well for transforming our personal lives. Our daily difficulties, from holding the wrong job (or not having one at all), to fighting with our spouse, to lacking love, to financial worries, spiritual emptiness, physical illness, or any of a million other troubles in between, all share with the global challenges now facing our species a single deep, common root – our beliefs about reality. Whether we are aware of it or not, we experience every moment of our lives within the framework of a complex set of personally-held beliefs about what reality is, how it functions, who's in charge, what is possible within it – for ourselves, of course, then often with a very different set of standards for others – plus a long, long list of accepted limitations, of what is never, ever possiblefor ourselves or anyone around us. These beliefs about reality are so deeply ingrained and all-encompassing that we live within their enveloping embrace much the way we bustle all day long through a thick blanket of air and li
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