Novelty lays down and opens new neuronal pathways creating an expanded field of knowledge. The Institute — drawing from the teachings of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku — offers a new view of reality, a vision in which the separations and divides of our ordinary knowing are perceived in a more lucid manner, a manner that reveals the intimacy of the whole. The pathways laid down by earlier learning and experience need not remain our dominant manner.