one's vision of how one looks at things, rather than one's thought processes and one's actions themselves. In this way one retains what most people call freedom of choice.
After all no-one wants to make the wrong decision. If one is imprisoned in a room with two identical doors; and one leads to freedom and the other to disaster; in making up one's mind which one to try, one hopes and wants to makes the right decision. If the doors are indistinguishable, then whether one chooses the right or the left one, is a matter on which one has complete freedom of choice, yet also is one where one's choice would probably be predetermined by heredity, environment, and upbringing or chance, because one would have nothing else to fall back upon. Not many of us have an occult sixth sense which is reliable in such circumstances. But the practical decisions of everyday life are not like this. And experience teaches us that it is the mediocre advocates in the law courts who have allowed their thought processes and actions to be too completely moulded by past experience, because in ordinary language they are “dull” and “unimaginative”. It is where the imagination is kept alive, and with it the ability to paint a picture in other people's imaginations, so as to show them a situation in a certain perspective, that modern advocacy is at its best. Once one has shown things in perspective, one can start to convince one's audience that it is the true perspective. I have spent some time on this matter, because it is of fundamental importance; the ability of each one of us to change the perspective with which we view the situation facing us, to change our consciousness, by an effort of will, to a limited extent, at least temporarily. This ability is not confined to a few; we all have it to a greater or lesser degree. And it is an ability we make use of whenever we make a decision of any moment, about any subject, at any time of the day. And in this ability lies our power to make sensible rational…