DEPTH Dialogue - what was called the Socratic Dialectic in ancient times - was rediscovered and reformulated only after more than three decades of research, exploration, intuitive inspirations, creative breakthroughs and practical insights. This was hard work and proceeded very slowly to completion, having many false starts and going down many dead-end streets along the way. It is a kind of wonder that it came to completion at all, because it seemed an impossible dream most of the way, in fact right up to the moment when it all came together (in the kind of large-scale creative breakthrough that DEPTH Dialogue induces.)

In spite of all that went into the search for it, the practice is not a synthesis or integration of many methods but is whole and entire in itself as a unique activity stemming from Socrates' Dialectic. However, there were many sources of insight and inspiration, which, although they do not enter into the practice, proved valuable or useful along the way to its rediscovery. This section presents the most important of these.

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