3) Transcendence: Is It Culturally Shaped or Is "Their Something" Universal?"

Abstract "Toward A New Kind of Science and Its Methods of Inquiry"
Mark A. Schroll, Ph.D. For more information on this meeting go to http://www.sacaaa.org

This presentation begins with a critique of EuroAmerican science’s limitations and humanistic anthropology and humanistic psychology’s contributions to what Daniel Halperin and Edith Turner refer to as a “delicate science,” that I call an integral/essential science. Second, this essay reflects on EuroAmerican sciences’ paradigmatic parameters that define and limit its methodological inquiry, specifically the emic/etic, subject/object, ideographic/nomothetic, qualitative/quantitative problem. This encouraged me to champion participant observation, ethnomethodology, and ethnography as methods that could balance etic methodologies by providing emic narratives. I continue to support these emic methodologies, yet also examine their limitations, expressing the need for a synthesis as well as a transcendence of these views. Third, this essay discusses the difficult task ahead and various obstacles that we will need to overcome in our quest to create a new kind of science that can include within it the study of psi/spirit.
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I have talked about the work of Edith Turner in a past blog and she will be in attendance at the SAC/Yale meeting. Edith may even become part of this symposium's discussion phase but that may not be worked out until I arrive at Yale and speak with her. We are going to have plenty of time for discussion.