The Participatory Mind: A New Theory Of Knowledge And Of The Universe

We have taken IQ tests but no Compassion Aptitude Tests (CATs). Yet mind and emotions need to be seen as two different parts of the same spectrum, says holistic thinker Henryk Skolimowski, if the human psyche, having taken an unprecedented battering this century, is to be mended. This cannot be accomplished through dusty philosophical treatises or popular psychological fixes, but by our arriving at a new way of looking at the world. In a Grand Theory of participatory mind that builds on the insights of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson as well as contemporaries Dobzhansky and Bateson, Skolimowski points to a new order, one brought about by a Western mind returning to, then reintegrating, the spiritual. This quest for fresh perspectives has now become 'the hallmark of our times'.