Dancing Outside the Box

<center>Beth's mother loved to tell this story.</br> One morning when Beth was three or four years old</br> she stepped out onto their front porch wearing coveralls.</br> A man approached on the sidewalk. Seeing her</br> he called out Hello little boy.</br> I am not a boy Beth called back. I'm a girl.</br> Little girls don't wear coveralls he informed her.</br> This girl does she informed him.</br> That little girl supremely indifferent to popular opinion</br> determined to think for herself and set her own rules</br> has stayed alive in this author throughout her long</br> very healthy and happy life.</br> This is a book of ideas. The author tells of incidents</br> in her own life and in the lives of family members</br> and friends to illustrate these ideas. In mid-life she slowly</br> changed from what is considered logical critical left brain</br> thinking to emotional illogical right brain thinking</br> dismantling her left brain beliefs brick by brick and replacing them</br> with what many in the western world would consider weird nonsense.</br> She developed psychic powers was repeatedly amazed at the power</br> and range of human consciousness and began to live in a bright</br> new world filled with surprises and certainties a magical</br> wonder-filled world.</center>