the turning point science society and the rising culture

They have also noted significant intersections between the New Science and North American Indigenous philosophies as well as Eastern mysticism, all relational ontologies. Some scientists observe that this shifting view of reality is catalyzing a profound cultural transformation. Quantum physics has led to a deep revision in our understanding of the universe moving away from the materialism and mechanism of classical physics. It has been charged that transformative learning theory is stagnating however, theoretical insights from relational ontologies offer significant possibilities for revitalizing the field.

Although this article was written two decades ago and first published a few years later, it is more relevant today than ever before, which seems to verify the theory of the emerging MYSPHYT. When this union of opposites finally happens, something new will appear - the MYSPHYT (pronounced misfit), literally a person who combines the conceptual methods of the MYStic and the PHYsicisT to further human knowledge. In other words, objective science and the non-scientific subjectivism of non-scientific disciplines seemed to be approaching a more common worldview if not merging together in the form of mystical thought and physics, just those two disciplines that claim the final word on our experiential interpretation of reality. It is safe to say that mind was virtually lost after the first decade of the Second Scientific Revolution and science did not begin to regain consciousness until the 1970s. Things began to slowly change in all of the sciences, but nowhere as much as in physics which had always been the stalwart and mainstay of the logic based disciplines of science. However, a crack began to appear in the stone façade of the scientific worldview by about 1970. Just a few decades ago, intuition was a dirty word in objective reductionist science every bit as much as mind and consciousness were absent from psychological studies.

The turning point science society and the rising culture