"Not anything you'd consider as such, no. But if I don't see how others do it, how do I know I'm not missing something obvious or drastic? Everything..." He twitched his fingers, looking for a proper description, then interlaced them as he held up his hands. "It's synthesis. Taking what works, discarding what doesn't. Learning everything you can, because everything you learn teaches you something about everything."

The Akashic philosophy, as embraced by Morgan Knight, wasn't easy to describe, and he had yet to successfully do it to anyone here. Not for lack of trying, but connecting aikido to financial planning was just not the sort of mental gymnastics most people were prepared to take.