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572 pages, Paperback
Published January 7, 2026
[…] I have quoted many times the words attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. There are various forms of what he is claimed to have said such as ‘wisdom is knowing how little we know’ and ‘To know is to know you know nothing’.
Another is: ‘I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.’ Given that we are in a reality specifically designed to maintain ignorance this is a very good place to start. It means we retain the essential humility that whatever we think we know there is always more to know.
This is the perception that keeps you out of the eddy. You are aware that any eddy is the illusion of knowing all we need to know. ‘I’ve got it now’ means you haven’t. You may have some of it, but there’s "always" more to know. Always.
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said: ‘Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.‘ This book extends across a huge spectrum and yet there will be far, far, more to become aware of as our minds open and explore ever deeper in the infinity of awareness.
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, who has studied the left-brain’s desperation for certainty, said:
I would also like to get in a word for uncertainty. In the field of religion there are dogmatists of no-faith as there are of faith, and both seem to me closer to one another than those who try to keep the door open to the possibility of something beyond the customary ways in which we think, but which we would have to find, painstakingly, for ourselves.
Certainty is the greatest of all illusions: whatever kind of fundamentalism it may underwrite, that of religion or science, it is what the ancients meant by hubris. The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong. […]