At this point, the energy became a palpable force, more intense than many in the auditorium could bear. Overcome with the urge to find a private space in which to sort through the overload of feelings, people began to silently get up and leave the room. The combination of intellectual comprehension and logical projection had propelled each of their imaginations into totally unknown territory. Those professionals who studied how human beings functioned suddenly found they were beyond their depth. It was one thing to present these concepts in a university lecture, but quite another to suddenly realize that they themselves were caught up in a mysterious global transformation.
Humans require time to adjust to change.
Even when the mass exodus at the conference did emerge in the media, it was downplayed. Like most reports on gatherings of this type, speculations were put forth as theories. Even though everyone in the world was affected by this strange phenomenon, few were able to sort it out enough to put their feelings into words. The term Hundredth Monkey began to appear in editorial columns, but since writers had been talking about such things for decades, this too was set aside as something already heard. Still, amidst the avoidance, change continued.