Introduction

I do hope you are reading this introduction, and have also read the Foreword. This might seem an imposition. I know myself I often skip them. I am asking the reader not to simply read the text for enjoyment or information, but to come with the reading, as it were, in a shared activity looking at what we think together. We don't ordinarily do this. We might be at school, at work, and say I am listening, I understand, and I know what you mean, but this is usually to get advice, ideas, instruction and to perform an action. Here we are beginning with having no obligation to the writer. I am asking the reader, if you are interested, to read, listen and watch your own thoughts for your selves and to see this as the response. You may of course think the writer means this or that, get ideas, develop a view, gain some understanding, knowledge, and so on, but this is just your own mental functioning. What I am saying relates to the thinking mind, the inner voice, and so really is something to observe quietly. I mention all this because usually we don't do this, and as busy individuals normally we wouldn't imagine that's actually what is appropriate.