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inner being. What you get is never only what you see. But if you expect to
get only that which you see, that is what you get.

On the simplest level, when there is a relationship between two inner
radiances, there is communion. Deep speaks to deep and both are
enhanced in their evolutionary journey. Each is better able to realize the
primordial intention to individuation that throbs within it. Out of that inner
movement toward individuation, springs the amazing diversity of life.

These three, individuation, subjectivity, and communion, work together in an
ongoing dance. They are at the heart of a science of qualities. New
developments within science itself (science-as-such as distinguished from

modern science), are transforming it from a science of quantities to a
science of qualities. Says biologist Brian Goodwin, “I don’t believe the
cosmos is like that, (mechanical, Ed.) – It is not a mechanism . . . I don’t
think it’s ‘going’ anywhere, except in the sense of expressing itself at every
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instant of time. It’s an existential unfolding of creative potential.”

The ability of science (as such) to look at modern science as a particular
paradigm allows the insight that science is not value-free; that the
Newtonian/Cartesian version of science we all grew up with – the
quantitative one – may not be the last word, and in fact can be thought of as
a cultural artifact; one that was created to satisfy the theological and
political needs of a particular society.

This is not to say that mechanistic science is useless. As a strategy it still
functions very well, (one of the reasons it’s so hard to let go of it). Goodwin
points this out. “The strategy,” he says, “is to say, ‘ . . . let’s separate these
concepts just to work on them.’ But what happened in Western culture is
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that we’ve separated them ontologically, in being.”

In our old story (Modern Science) we were confused about that. We thought
that if we separated things out of their wholeness, we could know more

40 Goodwin, Brian, in an interview with Jane Clark and Alison Yiangou, “The Generative Order of Life,” in
Spring-Summer, 1991, Noetic Sciences Review.

41 Ibid

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