This book explains the system of Count Alfred Korzybski, particularly accessible to us products of Western education, with an analysis of the way objects, feelings, visualization and name-labels work in the states of comprehension...The booklet proposes and correlates several approaches to being "nousful," that is, having an intuitive, non-rational, but very practical insight into the nature of things. One of those is Krishnamurti's teachings on self-realization. Another is Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, which offers a number of practical suggestions for coping with the world, such as remembering that the name of a thing is not the thing itself, so the word rose is not after all a rose. That may seem obvious, but every day we forget that principle and respond to the labels we put on things rather than to the things themselves, a process called stereotyping. So we think that all Chinese are inscrutable, or all Italians are great singers, or all Indians are spiritual, or all Americans are materialistic. Falconar also cites Zen koans and Tibetan visual meditations as alternative ways of dealing with non-Aristotelian reality, along with poetry and mysticism.