Direct Experience Confirmed As Lines Begin to Cross

Profound Experience Leading To Discovery

I’m certain many of you have had the same experience as I’ve had over the years. You’ve had a direct experience that was very personal and important to you, but was hard to explain to others – because it didn’t conform to the old traditional, mechanistic view of the way the world operates. It was a more creative, intuitive impulse, guided by your human spirit, rather than your pure rational intellect. It was filled with a spirit of freedom and perhaps idealism.

Since it was too hard to explain, you tucked it away in a safe place. Then later, you read of or heard a well-respected thought leader – a scientist, physician or philosopher – write about that very same experience, verifying what you knew was true. And then it goes “Clunk” for you! “Yes! That’s what happened – that’s what I was feeling.” It’s an experience of total confirmation of what you experienced – even though it seemed extraordinary. You say, “Now I know I’m not crazy.”

When I wrote the book, Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation, I was writing in that same domain – that domain of extraordinary experience. I felt I was really sticking my neck out. I wrote about the U-Process we had developed and written about ten years earlier – a theory, set of practices and a process for profound discovery. But in the book, Source, I was sharing my new knowledge. I said the essence of the U is this: there is a Source of infinite knowledge and potential lying hidden at the “bottom of the U”, waiting for us to access it – to help us fulfill our dreams and resolve the most challenging issues facing us, individually and collectively. At its heart, the U-Process is about the entrepreneurial impulse – and how to harness it for profound discovery for the benefit of humankind. To reliably access it takes personal work, personal development: a focus on your interior condition.

As I was doing the research on the book and as I was writing the first draft of the manuscript, I kept having that experience of “Clunk. Yes! That precisely confirms what I am writing – it’s beautifully giving voice to my experience”.

I began calling it “when the lines begin to cross”.

I was reminded of a speech I had given earlier, quoting a highly respected columnist describing our current condition: “We are in the midst of a knowledge revolution – a renaissance taking place in all the disciplines, breaking the boundaries between them, transforming them at their furthest reaches where they all converge.”

After the book was published, I kept coming across these confirming messages. And I might say the most important were from my readers who reported to me that they had shared the very same experience.

Each time I receive these messages, I silently say to myself, “Yes. This is the Universe we live in. It’s full of infinite potential, waiting for us to discover – if we just keep an open heart, open mind and open will.”