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                          %PARTICIPATING IN REALITY 731107

     The natural scientist has tended to regard himself as
transcending the object of his analysis.  This may lead to
a state of consciousness in which reality is defined to be
the sum total of all that will submit to analysis by human
intellect.   Scientists within this state of consciousness
may achieve a partial mutual awareness---but are  unlikely
to achieve much mutual understanding.  The deepest  levels
of  mutual  awareness  and  mutual understanding  are  not
achieved, they are accepted as gifts. He who seeks to make
himself o.k. is not free to accept such gifts, and must in
frustration strive for that which can not be achieved.

     The  way out involves a self-awareness on the part of
the scientist  of  the reality  of  his  participation  in
reality.   So long as scientists live in a collusion which
denies the  essential  uncertainty which  is  inherent  in
their participating in reality --- so long will scientists
stumble over their unexamined assumptions and limitations.

     The  methods  of  natural  science  assume  that  the
analyst transcends  the objects of analysis.  How then are
natural scientists to use  the  methods of natural science
to analyze their participation in reality?   They can not,
even though they all join together in a collusion  to  the
effect  that they  can.    To  gain a mutual understanding
their participation in reality,  scientists must transcend
the  disciplined full control state of consciousness which
is typical of the professional work of natural scientists.
They  must  first  have the emotional  security  which  is
necessary  for them to be free  to  accept  the  essential
uncertainty which goes with that transcendence.

     The foundations of emotional security are laid in the
very first few years of life.   They are not built through
rationality nor  through  disciplined  training under  the
full control of someone of high emotional security.

     The emotional security (and so the creativity) of the
leading scientists  of forty years into the  future---will
depend heavily upon the feminine  students now in college,
who  will  soon  be giving birth to  and giving  emotional
security  to those scientists.   Any  effective long range
program  of  science  improvement will  include  a  mutual
understanding of these realities of life.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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