Naked Emperor

Book excerpt: Long ago two swindlers came into the kingdom claiming to hold in their hands "the most beautiful and exquisite of cloth and material." Even though their hands were empty yet and still they were able to make the entire kingdom "see" something that really wasn't there in the first place. How was such a difficult task accomplished? Indeed it does sound like a magic trick. As with any "magic" trick, we all know what is actually happening is an illusion or a play upon our perception. This may in fact be the cause for the acceptance and maintenance of many of our most precious beliefs. Our attention has been drawn to such lofty and grand notions that we have ignored the fact that the initial and most fundamental questions remain unanswered or that they have answers that we simply reject because of our not liking them. This book exposes the problem we run into when we ignore those important and simple fundamental questions: questions like "What do you see?" and "What don't you see?"