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One of the most challenging and difficult steps which
is taken in the discernment of new understanding,
knowledge and science --- is the step of formulating
creative new hypotheses which challenge long accepted
truths, wisdom and collusions.
Formal education focuses upon the formalized forms of
new understandings, knowledge, and science --- upon the
formal retrospective proofs of the correctness of the
creative new hypotheses which successfully challenged old
discredited absolute truths, wisdom and collusions.
Formal education rarely penetrates the darkness of
confusion, prejudice, ignorance and collusions --- which
made the discernment of and articulation of the new
hypotheses so difficult in the first instance. It is
often nearly impossible to travel back in time --- to
perceive "reality" as it was perceived before the
successful articulation of the creative new hypothesis
which shook the foundation of old conventional truths,
wisdom and collusions.
Creative scientists must find supportive gracious
contexts within which they are free to be safely
vulnerable in being true to themselves and each other ---
about hints of totally new ways of viewing: reality,
elements, compounds, relationships, and reflections upon
them. Such a process is difficult enough when it focuses
upon objective realities. The difficulties are
compounded many times over --- when the process focuses
upon reflexive realities which include in essential ways
the participants in their reflexive personal realities,
relationships and elements.
Virtually all people are immersed in a web of
interacting collusive games of mutual self deception. Such
a web promotes dishonest perceptions and interpretations
of: the nature of reality, what is possible, and what is
impossible; what is good and what is evil; what is
integrative and what is disintegrative; what is proper and
what is improper. When trapped within such a web --- it
is dangerous to talk about hints of hypotheses which
challenge conventional: truths, wisdom, perspectives,
commandments, prescriptions, proscriptions, etc.
Truly creative people manage to find and nurture
small groups of people who are together in being willing
to ask new questions which transcend old assumptions and
old demands. They look for signs that point to old
assumptions and demands which lack integrity --- and so
promote both personal and communal disintegration. They
follow such signs as pointing out a way to encounter and
identify domains where new hypotheses can fruitfully be
formulated, tested, and shown to merit further careful and
honest consideration. Such people search for suggestions
of the possibility of increased coherence, integrity and
cooperation --- in open and honest dialogue which
transcends old truths, conventions, rituals,
proscriptions, perceptions and collusive games of mutual
self deception. It is often a personally challenging,
dangerous and exhilarating adventure. Not all explorers
survive the risks of the adventure. Many explorers are
destroyed by respected people who defend without limit ---
old truths, conventions, rituals, proscriptions,
perceptions and collusive games of mutual self deception.
It is usually the subsequent generations who learn
how to respect the creativity of the courageous
explorers who opened up new ways of perceiving,
understanding, relating and cooperating within healthy
communities where honesty, gentleness, and humility
prevail. The pioneers explored new hypotheses which
challenged old perceptions. They prudently took the risk
of testing the new hypotheses within small communities
of explorers who transcended old truths, conventions,
rituals, proscriptions, perceptions and collusive games
of mutual self deception.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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