The Penguin Brief

Finally the swirling thoughts and disconnected feelings that tore at him as he took in all of this information began to subside and allow him to do his work.

 

The opening of his mind to all possibilities was the necessary first step. He had trained himself to do that…in a way it honored his experience at the transcendent point of infinity when he was a young boy where he knew that there was a Consciousness in which all things were possible.

 

But on the counterpoint to that was that only certain things were plausible given the constraints of fact and physical reality and his task was to provide a plausible story of the future centered on the phenomenon of the coming Messiah.