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Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being

To lay aside one's views and values in order to enter another's world without prejudice.

Experiencing the consciousness behind another's outward communication Stages 1- 8

Findings
Clients are a better judge of the degree of empathy than therapists
Brilliance & diagnostic perceptiveness are unrelated to empathy
Can Be learned from other empathic beings
Dissolves alienation

On being open to the existence of multiple versions of reality.

Lancelot Whyte: it was his theory that great steps in human history are anticipated and probably brought about, by changes in the unconscious thinking of thousands and millions of individuals during the period preceding the change.

"At any moment the unconscious levels are ahead of the conscious in the tadk of unifying emotion, thought and action."

Life in a small Mennonite town that tries to keep up appearances, seen through the eyes of Nomi who has too many questioning tendencies alongside the life of righteousness she is supposed to be leading. The most pressing questions being where her sister Tash and her mother Trudie are, since they went missing, one after the other. Were they shunned, or is something else going on?