SpiritualWiki - Moeglichkeit

Sichtweisen von Entscheidungsträgern

Pitcher beim Wurf

Folgende Anekdote stammt aus der Feder des amerikanischen theoreti-
schen Physikers John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008). Wheeler, der selbst ein Empiriker war, überdachte er die unterschiedlichen Standpunkte seiner beiden Kollegen. Die Einstellung des Realisten Albert Einstein wich von der Möglichkeit ab, die Niels Bohr einräumte. Der dänische Quanten-
physiker glaubte, dass ein Kollaps der Wellenfunktion Partikeln wie etwa
Elektronen, ihre ausgeprägte Wirklichkeit übermittelt.

Drei Schiedsrichter werden darüber interviewt, mit welcher Methode sie beim Baseball-Spiel die Bälle als Gewinn- oder Verlustpunkte werten. Jeder Schiedsrichter erging sich in technischen Details und erläuterte, wie er sich bestenfalls hinter den Catchern positioniert. Der Journalist forderte alle drei Experten, auf die Frage ''Wie entscheiden Sie wirklich? zu antworten.

Der erste Schiedsrichter, ein Empiriker, rühmt sich:	"Ich werte Bälle so, wie ich sie sehe."	Vergangenheit
Der zweite Schiedsrichter, ein Realist, behauptet:	"Ich werte Bälle so, wie sie sind."	Gegenwart
Der dritte Schiedsrichter, ein Potentialist, sagt:	"Die Bälle existieren überhaupt nicht, solange ich sie nicht bewerte."	Zukunft

Siehe auch: ► Perspektive und ► Witze und ► Standpunkte und ► Entscheidung

See also: ► Points of view – umpires and physicists

Zitate zum Thema Möglichkeit / Possibility

Zitate allgemein

Wahrlich, wahrlich ich sage euch: Wer an mich glaubt, der wird die Werke auch tun, die ich tue, und wird
größere als diese tun. Johannes 14, 12 (NT)

Er [Jesus] aber sprach: Was bei den Menschen unmöglich ist, das ist bei Gott möglich. Lukas 18, 27 (NT)

Empfehlung

Tu zuerst das Notwendige, dann das Mögliche, und plötzlich schaffst du das Unmögliche. Zugeschrieben Franz von Assisi [Giovanni Bernadone] (1181/82-1226) italienischer katholischer Heiliger, Ordensbruder, Prediger, Gründer der Franziskani-
schen Orden, Sozialreformer, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Schlussfolgerung

Wer nur eine Möglichkeit hat, ist in einer Zwangslage.
Wer zwei Möglichkeiten hat, steckt in einem Dilemma.
Und wer drei Möglichkeiten hat, kann frei wählen.
Populäres Zitat von Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-1984) ukrainisch-jüdischer Physiker, Judolehrer, Entwickler der Feldenkrais-Methode, Autor, zitiert in: My Zitate

Einsicht

So manche Wahrheit ist lange oder ganz unwirksam geblieben, allein deshalb, weil die Möglichkeit, dass sie Tatsache werden könne, nicht in Betracht gezogen wurde. Nur in dem Maße, als durch den Geist eine Gesinnung des Friedens in den Völkern aufkommt, können die für die Erhaltung des Friedens geschaffenen Insitutionen leisten, was von ihnen verlangt und erhofft wird. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) deutsch-elsässischer Arzt, evangelischer Theologe, medizinischer Missionar, Kulturphilosoph, Humanist, Organist, Friedensnobelpreisträger, 1952, Autor, Die Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben, C.H.Beck Verlag, München, 1991, 10. Auflage 9. Oktober 2013

Lösungsstau angesichts der "Rechtfertigung Gottes"

Theodizee-Paradoxon¹
Barth führt aus, dass der Mensch nicht dazu berechtigt sei, Gott hinsichtlich der Existenz des Bösen anzuklagen.

Das Böse ist die "unmögliche Möglichkeit".
Karl Barth [Kirchenvater des 20. Jahrhunderts] (1886-1968) Schweizer evangelisch-reformierter Theologe, Kirchliche Dogmatik, Band IV/3.1, S. 199, Zürich, 1932, 1967

In den Experimenten über Atomvorgänge haben wir mit Dingen und Tatsachen zu tun, mit Erscheinungen, die ebenso wirklich sind wie irgendwelche Erscheinungen im täglichen Leben. Aber die Atome oder die Elementarteilchen sind nicht ebenso wirklich. Sie bilden eher eine Welt von Tendenzen und Möglichkeiten als eine von Dingen und Tatsachen.
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) deutscher theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation, 1927, Physiknobelpreisträger, 1932, Autor, Physik und Philosophie, Hirzel, Stuttgart, 2000, 7. korrigierte Auflage 1. Dezember 2006

Mit der Unbestimmtheitsrelation wird behauptet, dass es, wenn man bis zu den Atomen absteigt, eine solche objektive Welt in Raum und Zeit gar nicht gibt und dass die mathematischen Symbole der theoretischen Physik nur
das Mögliche, nicht das Faktische abbilden Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) deutscher theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler
der Heisenbergschen Unschärferelation, 1927, Physiknobelpreisträger, 1932, Autor, Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Um-
kreis der Atomphysik, Piper Verlag, München, 1969, S. 100, Taschenbuchausgabe 8. Auflage August 1996, 1. November 2001

90/10-Regel

90% der Lebensereignisse unterliegen der eigenen Kontrolle, 10% entziehen sich der Kontrolle

In der Psychologie gibt es die sogenannte "90/10-Regel", die besagt, dass unsere Reaktion auf Ereignisse uns viel mehr beeinflusst als die Ereignisse selbst. In der Tat werden gerade einmal 10% unseres Lebens durch das bestimmt, was uns passiert: ein begangener Fehler, die Verspätung des Flugzeugs oder der Stau, was uns zu spät zur Arbeit kommen lässt. Andererseits hängen 90% direkt davon ab, wie wir auf diese Situationen reagieren, die eben jene 10% ausmachen. Es ist bewiesen, dass Individuen in dersel-
ben Lage auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise reagieren. Unsere erste Reaktion gegenüber eines gerade stattgefunden unschönen Ereignisses entscheidet darüber, ob wir einem mehr oder weniger angenehmen Tag etwas Positives abgewinnen können.
Es ist wichtig, diese Regel zu berücksichtigen, da wir uns so bewusst werden können, dass wir den Großteil un-
seres Lebens kontrollieren: nämlich 90%. Wenn uns klar wird, dass es nur 10% gibt, die außerhalb unserer
Kontrolle liegen, befreit uns das auch von unnützen Gefühlen, in die wir sonst jede Menge Energie stecken.
Artikel Die 90/10-Regel: Die Veränderung beginnt bei dir, präsentiert von der Publikation Gedankenwelt, 14. Juli 2017

Möglichkeit Wahrscheinlichkeit Gewissheit

Was in einem schwachen Feld eine Möglichkeit ist,
wird in einem stärkeren Feld zur Wahrscheinlichkeit und
in einem Feld der Unendlichen Macht (wie etwa der Göttlichkeit) zur Gewissheit.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, FU Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, Kapitel 3, "Inhalt und Kontext", S. 68, 2008

Referenzen: de.Wikiquote-Einträge ► Möglichkeit und ► Das Mögliche

General quotes

As I do these things, so shall ye do them, and greater things. John 14, 12 (NT)

Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God. Luke 18, 27 New International Version, 1984 (NT)

Recommendations

Strive for the impossible. That is where the new will emerge.
Nicanor Perlas III (*1950) Filipino activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, 2003, source unknown

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.
Norman Vincent Peale [Influence LoC 435] (1898-1993) US American minister, progenitor of the theory of positive thinking, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) British biogra-
pher, playwright, librettist, poet, novelist, cited in: article Doris Lessing: key quotes, presented by the British daily newspaper The Guardian, 18. November 2013

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Roman Emperor (161-180 AD), last of the Five Good Emperors, important Stoic philosopher, author, first translation into English 1792, Meditations, Penguin Classics, 31. October 2006

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Anthony Robbins (*1960) US American life coach, motivational speaker, self-help author, cited in: Brainyquotes

Conclusions

Everything is possible for
1. one who believes,
2. still more for one who hopes,
3. even more for one who loves,
4. and most of all for one who practices and perseveres in these three virtues.

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection [Nicholas Herman] (1614-1691) French Carmelite lay brother, theologian, mystic, cook, sandalmaker, The Practice of the Presence of God, 1692

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) US American football player, coach, executive, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno, collection of Essays and Soliloquies, S. 104, 1925; cited in: Compilation by Burton Stevenson, The Home
Book of Quotations: Classical and Modern, 1935, falsely attributed to Albert Einstein

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) leading South African anti-apartheid activist, prisoner for 27 years during apartheid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

[Paraphrased] The present is pregnant with the possible.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, author,
cited in: Mika Pekkola, Prophet of Radicalism. Erich Fromm and the Figurative Constitution of the Crisis of Modernity, PDF,
S. 132, JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN HUMANITIES 142, University of Jyväskylä, 2010

The three laws of prediction

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably very wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishible from magic.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917-2008) British inventor, futurist, novelist, science fiction author, Profiles of the Future. An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, essay Hazards of Prophecy. The Failure of Imagination, The Orion Publishing Group, Phoenix, 1962, new revised edition 14. December 2000
Wikipedia; Clarke's three laws of prediction

Short version of The three laws of prediction
1. "It's completely impossible – don't waste my time";
2. "It's possible, but it's not worth doing";
3. "I said it was a good idea all along."

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet, popular throughout much of the world in the 19th century, cited in: Brainyquote

These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep. Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Caribbean-American activist, poet, writer, Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches, S. 36, Crossing Press, Trumansburg, New York, 1984, reprint edition 1. August 2007

The average is indicative of a trend, not of a necessity or of a universal truth. Often, it is those outside the norm, the exceptional ones, who point to the truth of what is possible. Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. (*1970) US American organizational behaviorist, lecturer on positive psychology and leadership, Harvard University, Boston, faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, writer, Happier. Learn the secrets of daily joy and lasting fulfillment, S. 138, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007

From dissolution new formerly impossible solutions may arise.

Revolutions destroy the perfect and then they enable the impossible. They never go from everything is good to everything is good. There is a lot of noise in the middle. If we look at the music business; first the Internet destroyed the record label business. And only now is it enabling independent musicians to get heard. Seth Godin (*1960) US American entrepreneur, public speaker, author, cited in: educational documentary The Future of Learning, presented by Ericsson – Networked Society, YouTube film, minute 17:21, 20:17 minutes duration, posted 19. October 2012

Thousand year huge old oak tree
Natural monument, Borlinghausen, Germany

Yes, a key can lie forever in the place where the locksmith left it, and never be used to open the lock the master forged it for. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian British philosopher, Georg Henrik von Wright, translator, selection of personal notes Culture and Value [Vermischte Bemerkungen, 1977], S. 54, 1946, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England, 1970

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. Miguel de Unamuno, Vida de D. Quijote y Sancho. Según Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, S. 175/176, Libreria de Fernando Fe, Madrid, Spain, 1905; misattributed to M. C. Escher (1898-1972) Dutch graphic artist

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) US American actor, film director, producer, activist, screenwriter, author, speech at the Democratic National Convention, 26. August 1996

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great [Alexander III of Macedon] (356-323 BC) king of Macedon, ancient Greece, cited in: Brainyquote

If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate. Steven Wright (*1955) US American comedian, actor,
writer, cited in: Jokes by Steven Wright, Part Eight. Wright Absorption, presented by wright-house.com

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. Chinese proverb

Lead, follow or get out of the way. Expression in the US American Air Force

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Possibility

Literary quotes

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) US American science fiction writer, science fiction novel Time Enough for Love, G.P. Putnam's Sons, June 1973

Quotes by David Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

The gift of Divinity is the potentiality within man's own consciousness to return via that consciousness to the very
source of his existence. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 5, 2005

It is best to be prepared for the fact that the world has little or no understanding of such a state or the actual necessity for such a transition. […] The eventuality of a major leap in consciousness is seldom taken into consideration as a serious possibility, much less a likelihood, amongst most spiritual aspirants who, unless forewarned, may not have made anticipatory plans. […] The emergence of progressively higher levels of consciousness requires periods of adjustment and thus, worldly function may be impaired. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 262-266, 2006

Field related emergence of: Possiblity ⇔ Probability ⇔ Certainty

What is possibility in a weak field becomes a probability in a stronger field and a certainty in a field of Infinite Power (e.g. Divinity). Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, chapter 3 "Content and Context", S. 68, 2008

With spiritual progress each increment is of equal importance – for, analogously, it is only through the removal of a single brick that an entire wall collapses, and the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Reflection
of December 5th, January 2011

Within a certain context and to a certain degree all things are possible. At the same time they are not. […] It's the error of mixing levels. […] You can walk on water at this level, if you try it on that level you are drowned. What's true at one level is not true on another level. […]
You see what applies to the abstract level may not necessarily apply to the concrete. […] It is true but only within a certain context. [Limitations are humanness, protoplasm, gender, age, space and time.]
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Advaita. The Way to God through Mind, 3 DVD set, August 2002

We have innate within us, a tremendous, intense, powerful devotion. We don’t have to develop it, we only have to rediscover it. There is within us already pre-existent, an energy of such enormous power that one summons up that power to relinquish any and every attachment that stands in the way. You won’t find the willingness to do that within the ego structure. The ego will instantly give you an argument why it should not persist in the direction that it is positioned. So, one has to reach deeper within oneself. At the very innate core of one’s being is a spiritual power of enormous strength, which alone can accomplish the impossible. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Integration of Spirituality and Personal Life, Poco Diablo Resort, DVD 2 of 3, minute 00:33:15, February 2003

The field is invisible, all encompassing, without space and time, forever and always present, the infinite. The human mind cannot conceive it. It is exquisitely gentle and powerful. The field is infinitely powerful, like a giant elec-
tromagnetic field with no ending. The field is so powerful that it includes all potentialities. Within the field, potentiality is actualized by intention. Karma is innate potentiality. If you continuously hold a thought, it will become happening. Otherwise no one would become enlightened. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Witnessing and Observing, DVD 1 of 3, opening lines, 16. October 2004

As the potentiality begins to manifest, the ego instantly takes credit for it. There’s no inner, separate, personal self making anything happen. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Witnessing and Observing, 3 DVD set, 16. October 2004

Potentiality becomes actuality when conditions are favorable.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Vision, 3 DVD set, 25. February 2005

Potentiality becomes actuality under appropriate conditions. What is one of the conditions? Intention! Intention drives
all spiritual evolution … your intention. The intention is part of the outer field. By intention potentiality becomes actuality.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Transcending Obstacles, 3 DVD set, 3. September 2005

The fact that you are created as a human is subject to the laws / karma of protoplasm. […] You can control, you can transcend things within a certain context. […] Within a certain context and to a certain degree all things are pos-
sible. At the same time they are not. […] It's the error of mixing levels. […] You can walk on water at this level, if you
try it on that level you are drowned. What's true at one level is not true on another level. […] The spiritual sophistication
is the discernment of levels. At the [consciousness] level of 600 you stop mixing levels. […]
You see what applies to the abstract level may not necessarily apply to the concrete. […] It is true but only within
a certain context. [Limitations are humanness, protoplasm, gender, age, space and time.]
[…] Your capacity to control or change things is quite limited actually. On the one hand the miraculous is possible and yet at the same time you're not really limited either. They seem like conflicting statements, but actually they are not. They are two different contexts. Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona Satsang Q&A, 2 CD set, 7. January 2009

Englische Texte – English section on Possibility

Points of view – umpires and physicists

Batter, catcher and umpire

Following anecdote was designed by the US American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008). Empirist himself, he described the perspectives of his colleagues: the realist Albert Einstein and the potentialist Niels Bohr who believed the collapse of the wave function gives particles like electrons their distinct reality.

Three baseball umpires are being interviewed about how they decide whether to call a pitch a ball or a strike. Each umpire talked about his positioning behind the catchers and other technical details. The interviewer challenged all three of them, "How do you really decide?"

The first umpire, the empiricist, said:	"What it really comes down to is, I calls 'em like I see 'em."	Past
The second umpire, the realist, stated:	"My eyesight is just a little better, but I calls 'em the way they are."	Present
The third umpire, the potentialist, smiled and said:	"They ain't nothin' until I calls 'em."	Future

See also: ► Perspective and ► Jokes and ► Albert Einstein and ► Decision and ► Points of view

Optimists ⇔ pessimists

Optimists tend to be more stress-hardy, more happy, draw less illnesses and live longer.
Pessimists tend to be much less happy, draw more illnesses and die earlier.

The founder of Positive psychology Dr. Martin Seligman distinguishes
pessimism and optimism by differentiating the attributional styles of people.

Selfabsorbed pessimists take life's challenges [job loss, disease, divorce] as a personal, pervasive, permanent threat (the 3 Ps).	Realistic optimists take life's challenges more stress hardy by seeing them as possibilities for change for the better.
They take difficult situations in life as personal.	They see things realistically as a challenge for ingenuity and change.
They see problems as pervasive.	They keep a sense of sovereignity – in areas where they (still) have it.
They see their problems as permanent. "It is never going to change."]	They have a commitment to a world view that expands possibilities.

See also: ► Psychology

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925,
unsourced, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

The impossible dreamer Don Quixote – Robert Fuller

Impossibility ❁ Possibility

༺༻	Reasons for failure – Impossibility	Reasons for success anyway – Possibility
1.	An interior witness acts as an impartial judge of our shifting fortunes, tracking our wins and losses.	Our notion of selfhood is misconceived. Autonomous, independent beings we're not.
2.	[Paraphrased] As individuals, our point of view is inseparable from our personal history.	"The successful man adapts himself to the world, the loser persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the loser." George Bernard Shaw
3.	When we think we've won, Nature moves the goal posts.	We can as well program intelligent machines to incorporate the better angels of our nature as to reproduce our pathologies and pursue our depredations.
4.	Dreams shatter on the rocks of reality; imagination runs aground on the shoals of practicality.
5.	We desire the eternal, but are bound in time.
6.	The heart, formerly the seat of the soul, is now seen as a pump made of muscle.

Source: ► Blog article by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics,
college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, 6 Reasons You Can't Win (And 3 Reasons You Can Anyway),
presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper HuffPost, 16. January 2015, updated 6. December 2017

It is impossible...

1. It is impossible to make others see where they have made a mistake.
2. It is impossible to be carried to a secure and peaceful harbor on a ship
crafted by anxiety or fueled by fearful feelings.
3. It is impossible to gain real happiness at the expense of someone else's pain.
4. It is impossible to genuinely elevate yourself by pushing another person lower.
5. It is impossible to take advantage of others without living in secret fear of them.
6. It is impossible to realize the fulfillment of the Divine as long as we remain filled
with ourselves.
7. It is impossible to rise above any fear or worry whose root we have not found,
uncovered, and removed from our own present misunderstanding.
8. It is impossible to receive forgiveness in life without having learned what it means
to freely forgive.
9. It is impossible to wish another person any kind of ill, for any reason, and not be
made sick ourselves.
10. It is impossible to resist or hate any condition in life and learn from it
at the same time.

Source: ► Guy Finley (*1949) US American former professional songwriter, musician, philosopher, founder of the nonprofit organization Life of Learning Foundation, educator, author of self-help books,
Let Go and Live in the Now. Awaken the Peace, Power, and Happiness in Your Heart, S. 122-123,
Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, Maine, 2004

Links zum Thema Möglichkeit / Possibility

Literatur

Prentice Mulford (1834-1891) US-amerikanischer Erzieher, Goldgräber, Warenhausbesitzer, Journalist, Autor, Die Möglichkeit des Unmöglichen, Drei Eichen Verlag, Taschenbuchauflage 1. März 2007
Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. (*1931) tschechisch-US-amerikanischer Psychiater, Psychotherapeut, Medizinphilosoph, Mitbegründer der transpersonalen Psychologie, Impossible. Wenn Unglaubliches passiert. Das Abenteuer außergewöhnlicher Bewusstseinserfahrungen, Kösel Verlag, Februar 2008

Wikipedia: Clarke's three laws of prediction

Literature (engl.)

Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) Czech dissident, first postcommunist President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003) and during the Velvet Revolution (1989-1992), poet, playwright, essayist, Toward a Civil Society. Selected Speeches and Writings 1990-1994, Lidove Noviny,
1st edition 1995, 2nd source: The Art of the Impossible. Politics as Morality in Practice, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition 20. May 1997, Fromm International, New York, 1998
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917-2008) British inventor, futurist, novelist, science fiction author, Profiles of the Future.
An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, essay Hazards of Prophecy. The Failure of Imagination, The Orion Publishing Group, Phoenix, 1962, new revised edition 14. Dezember 2000

Stanislav Grof, Czech US American transpersonal psychologist, consciousness researcher, When the Impossible Happens. Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality, Sounds True, 1. April 2005
Auriela McCarthy, The Power of the Possible. A Book of Hope and Inspiration, Beaufort Books, 31. January 2008

Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Bayesscher Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriff, Möglichkeit, Potenz

External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Bayesian probability, Possibility, Potency, Potentiality and actuality
Personalities Mark Victor Hansen, America's ambassador of possibility

Q&A contribution Is it absurd to desire the impossible?, presented on the Californian question-and-answer website Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 138 views, 30. May 2019

Audio- und Videolinks

Linklose Medienangebote

Audiointerview mit Dr. Christoph Quarch (*1964) deutscher Philosoph, protestantischer Theologe, Publizist, Mit dem Schrecken davongekommen. Gerade noch mal gut gegangen! – Geschichten von unglaublichen Lösungen in letzter Sekunde, präsentiert von dem werbefreien Hörfunkprogramm des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln WDR 5, Sendung "LebensArt – Hörer im Gespräch", Gastgeberin Bergit Fesenfeld und Ruth Schulz, 15. Dezember 2010