AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO
TITANIA, THE BLOODLESS REVOLUTION

All my life I've sought to understand how the world around me works: first through math, physics, systems analysis, and the physical sciences. Later through history, psychology, psychotherapy, and many of the social sciences.  The big puzzler of course has always been what "makes people tick"?

During the years I worked for industry (Avco, GE, Bendix, Cincinnati Research) and the government (Air Force, Coast Guard) I closely observed the interactions of the people around me: how they mistreated others around themselves, how they avoided facing unpleasant truths, how they (and I too, of course) often kept doing things that they knew didn't work.  I kept looking for the "whys" and the "hows" of it all.

Later, after training as a therapist and starting a private practice I began to glimpse some of the answers I had been seeking.  I noticed, for example, that people are basically good and that their values, that is to say what they want more of in life, are pretty homogeneous.  Where people differ dramatically is in the belief systems that they hope will bring them more of what they want.  In this regard many people seem to be immune to corrective feedback.  In other words, we keep doing what doesn't work because we don't know what else to do.  The aphorism seems to ring true that "if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks to you like a nail."

One of my earliest mentors told me many years ago that if I find I've dug myself into a hole, the first thing I need to do is to stop digging...put down the shovel.  Some twenty years ago I began applying such thinking to what I had, by then, come to regard as the "plight of humanity".  It appeared to me (and still does) that if humanity keeps doing what has done up until now, it is very likely to bury itself...to literally make itself extinct.  I chuckle sometimes when I hear people talk about "endangered species" because I see us as endangered.

I think most people have a sense of being endangered, but it gets distorted.  It becomes a kind of desperation.  We clutch at straws.  We are told by a well-meaning parent or schoolteacher that we need to believe something they say, and we do...as a kind of conditioned reflex.  The situation is compounded by what we hear from the not-so-well-meaning businessperson, clergyman, politician, talk-show host, salesman, and the like and, without examining what we are told, we believe it!  Research has shown that a majority of us will believe the last thing we were told about a subject even if it contradicts everything we believed the day before.

And of course we keep expecting the answers to life's challenges to be simple, so we opt for the democratic election, the government, the preacher, the power of prayer, the love of Jesus, or any other simple answer to our problems...even if it doesn't work for us.  The sad fact is that real life isn't that simple.

Over twenty years ago I noted that most people think the ultimate answer to society's problems will come from the institutions of business, organized religion, and government (BORG).  I can remember when, as a young man, I thought so too.  With the passage of time and considerable research effort on my part I finally came to realize that these institutions are incapable of solving the serious problems that we all face on a daily basis.  Quite the contrary, I finally had to admit to myself that such institutions worldwide play a key role in perpetuating humanity's "Big Problem".  Principally, they do this by directly or indirectly supporting our belief in eleven commonly held misbeliefs...I call them the "Comforting Lies"

This website, the organization, TITANIA™, and the book series, "TITANIA, The Bloodless Revolution" are all about the wonderful possibilities that become available to us all when we recognize the falsehood of the Pernicious Fallacies and acknowledge the validity of the Pervasive Truths that contradict them.

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