understanding of the universe that they do – there are very few people who lie within the genius’s variation in perception. They feel lonely and may suffer self-doubt as there may be nobody around them to understand what they say and then say to them “Yes, Einstein, I hear where you’re coming from”. When you don’t get this grounding by connecting with like minded people, but instead get constantly told you’re mad, you begin to wonder if you are mad. So ironically, the person with the accurate mind map may be affected by this constant pressure from the less enlightened majority, and they may even slip into mental illness. The pressure from the egos of the majority which constantly reject the genius’s truth can be overwhelming. And if the genius finally caves into this pressure and becomes mentally ill, the deluded majority will turn round and say “there you are, I told you he was mad”! And they get to preserve their ego’s which is what they wanted all along. You can’t win sometimes. Ho hum.
The key to it all is to surrender one’s ego. If one does not fear looking foolish, one is free to explore new information and one can eagerly correct one’s map of reality without the fear of looking foolish. And if one constantly corrects one’s map of the universe, one can then interact more easily with the universe, with fewer problems – by changing our opinions we become stronger and stronger. Change is strength. And yet we live in a culture where you might be ridiculed if you confess “oh, yeah, I was wrong, I can see that you’ve worked it out better than me”. So people actually choose to remain ignorant. People choose to remain deluded! Mad as cheese!
Here’s a micro-scale example of the global macro-keeper up dramatically. When the possibility was put forward that the incense was priced lower before he had started working there, it provided a solid argument that he was wrong, his ego was completely threatened and with adrenaline in his system he backed off, completely stressed out. This is the effect truth constantly has on our ego’s. Quite dramatic. This man couldn’t cope with the fact he was undeniably wrong. This happens to us all, every day. For the person who is arguing with truth on their side, such as Gandhi for instance, one finds a constant battle against the ego’s of the less enlightened. For a quiet
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