Variety: Matthew 18v3

 And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18v3)

Learning to see beyond our biases is essential for the ongoing conversion of faith.  

We need self-knowledge and the crucial need to recognize 
(1) when we are in denial about our own shadow and capacity for illusion; 
(2) our capacity to project our own fears and shadows onto other people and groups; 
(3) our capacity to face and carry our own issues; and 
(4) the social, institutional, and political implications of not doing this work.

Jesus’ teachings very effectively freed people from an over-attachment to their own way of seeing.
Jesus inspired and “abducted” people through immersive and imaginative experiences—including parables and powerful metaphors, respectful conversations, encounters with “the other,” field trips, and other forms of experiential learning.

The doorway out of confirmation bias is not argument but imagination.  
That’s why Jesus, like other effective communicators, constantly told stories, stories that grabbed people by the imagination and transported them into another imaginative world: 
… there once was a woman who put some yeast into a huge batch of dough [Matthew 13:33] 
… there once was a man who had two sons [Luke 15:11] 
… this man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho [Luke 10:30] 
… a woman once lost a coin [Luke 15:8]

Through these short “imaginative vacations” to another world, Jesus helped people see from a new vantage point. He used imagination to punch a tiny hole in their walls of confirmation bias, and through that tiny hole, some new light could stream in and let them know of a bigger world beyond their walls…. 
[Jesus] didn’t spend a lot of time repeating or refuting the false statements of his critics, and he didn’t counterpunch when he was attacked or insulted, but instead, he used every criticism as an opportunity to restate, clarify, and illustrate his true statements.

It’s so hard to be vulnerable, to say to our neighbour, “I don’t know everything” or to say to our soul, “I don’t know anything at all.” Yet Jesus says the only people who can recognize and be ready for what he’s talking about are the ones who come with the mind and heart of a child (see Matthew 18:3). We must never presume that we see “all” or accurately. We must always be ready to see anew. 
 

Richard Rohr