The Third Culture: Participatory Science as the Basis for a Healing Culture

Participatory methods are emerging as a necessary next step in the development of science. As inaugurated by Goethe, further developed by Steiner, and independently conceived of by Polanyi, this new scientific approach calls for conscious inner participation in the processes and qualities of the external world and finally comes to see them as lawful manifestations of creative forces that are inaccessible to the methods of materialistic science. Such insights into the dynamic principles of life, soul, and spirit provide the basis for the practical realization of a healing culture.