What Bahá'ís describe when consultation goes well is a conversation in which the ownership of ideas dissolves — participants report being unable afterwards to say who proposed what, and arriving at a conclusion nobody brought into the room. Both the report and the mechanism are specified in the writings rather than being folk observations: 'Abdu'l-Bahá describes the shining spark of truth as coming forth only after the clash of differing opinions, and the rule that an opinion belongs to the group once expressed is what permits the clash to occur without injury. In practice this is the hardest of the consultation rules and the most frequently broken, since detaching from a view one has just argued for is difficult, and Assembly members describe it as a skill acquired over years. The method has attracted interest outside the faith among people working on collective decision-making, and Bahá'í-inspired organisations have exported it into development and educational contexts where the theology is not shared.