What is needed are new ways of thinking that are suited to navigating complexity, exploring the unknown and, above all, are able to treat re-patterning as a norm rather than an exception. This distinction is between static thinking and dynamic thinking. To understand dynamic thinking we need to be able to step outside the boundaries we have established over recent centuries through privileging rationality as the most valid way of knowing.

Gurdjieff pointed out this need in his aphorism quoted by P.D. Ouspensky:

Comprehensive Knowing