Science and Other Ways of Knowing

Science and technology are rapidly changing the surface of our planet, for better or worse. At the same time, they are also changing our understanding of both the world and ourselves.

In the past, to search for a deeper understanding of ourselves, we could study art or philosophy or religion, in whatever way they were offered in our culture. And in order to train ourselves to become better and wiser persons, there were plenty of techniques and suggestions that came with these traditional paths.

Nowadays, the only clear hard-nosed `real' truth seems to be the one given by science. Yet science, at least in it current form, is not the kind of thing that could offer any alternative system of values. Our aim is to explore viable alternatives.

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