Suddenly I was preparing for a visit to the Philippines for ten weeks that would change my life. Before I left, my friends would discuss our summer plans. There was something mysterious in that event. I did not change my mind. I found that my mind had been changed.
M aking decisions is a particularly difficult matter in our day and within our modern culture.
The world would have us believe that each individual human creature is an autonomous human being. Now autonomy has been an important word in the Western world for over three hundred years. The Enlightenment philosophers were fascinated with human reasoning. They were sure that each and every human being was capable of governing her life. The law of reason was thought to reside in each person.