My favored explanation, though, derives from a different aspect of meditation: its ability to foster a view that all beings are interconnected.
Perhaps the most striking chapter in the book describes how technology companies in America campaigned to foster a view that state schools were failing – in particular by funding a series of films about crummy schools and heroic individual teachers battling the system – before profiting from selling IT "solutions" to the new schools springing up to replace failed ones.
Such comments helped to foster a view that Tippett was a "difficult" composer, or even that his music was amateurish and poorly prepared.
Recent policies have, moreover, fostered a negative view of foreigners, such as the debate over proposals to prevent them from buying land.
Only recently, after six decades' work, did he lift the curtain on a life whose mid-west beginnings fostered a baroque view of America that bracketed him with southern gothic - where domineering women and immolations are among life's obstacles.
The analysis of interviews using the constant comparison method fostered a broader contextual view on how new ways of working driven by the ethos of productivity are disrupting traditional intraprofessional and interprofessional roles, assumptions, channels and media of communication.
Consequently, the two-ways practice science cooperation induced single loop learning, enhanced the preparation of the scenarios as well as other scientific work, and fostered a more holistic perspective, all viewed as crucial to integrating knowledge and dealing with complexity preparatory to generating a locally specific and practically relevant analysis.
Somebody could build a recommendation engine intended to foster a sympathetic view of others' lives and values.
We were privileged in that it allowed us to interact with folk from all walks of life from a very early age, fostering a world view that's very much rooted in helping others.
The thinking has required looking beyond local strengths to foster a broader view of the league by fans, whose allegiances are mostly tribal, and sponsors, whose cash adds to the league's relatively modest national TV revenue.
