The Great Field of New Discoveries and the Terrifying Dream of William James

What is the great field of new discoveries? Where will the truly paradigm-shifting breakthroughs come from?The great psychologist and philosopher William James invites us to see how our next big breakthrough will come from what we now see as noise in the data, as impossible, as absurd.In this suggestion, James joins a vast group of philosophers who understand the true spiritual meaning of the impossible. He also points us directly at a vast collection of data that right now doesn’t fit in the paradigms that rule the science of the dominant culture. James himself became one such datum, one such gift to our possible transformation. But it terrified him. Together, we will try to understand why, and what it all means for our mutual insight, mutual liberation, and mutual health and healing.