Drawing on Nicolas of Cusa’s “Educated Ignorance,” and Erasmus’s “In Praise of Folly”, Thomas Moore suggests that there is a certain way in which intellectualizing ruins life. He will show some of Magritte’s images and offer an interpretation of other classic sources, proposing the limits of the mind and the importance of playing, fooling around, and cultivating a sense of admitting to what you don’t know and can never know.

He is especially concerned about the tendency of psychotherapists to feel omniscient and to think they know things that their clients don’t. He suggests that cultivating a profound love of ignorance, without being masochistic about it, is liberating and useful.

Those of us who heard his last talk know what an engaging and thought provoking speaker Tom is. Those who missed him last time have the chance now to find out for themselves.