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Basic Assumptions
CHAPTER TWO
THE BEHAVIORAL sciences1 are undergoing great change. As mentioned in the introduction, information from diverse sources in both the hard sciences like physics and the soft sciences like psychology—to say nothing of the view held by virtually all religions, that man’s soul extends beyond the life of his body—challenges our most basic assumptions about human consciousness. It is time for a new vision and a broader conceptual framework, which can consolidate the multiplicity of new hypotheses and concepts in the behavioral sciences and link them to the hard
sciences.
Beyond this, many in the behavioral sciences believe we are
facing an even more critical moral crisis concerning the fundamental values and priorities in our field. I think the two issues are related. The purpose of this book is to point out some of the limitations which I perceive in our basic assumptions concerning human consciousness and to propose changes leading not only to a more unifying and comprehensive science, but one which is more spiritually
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