Sacred Waters – A Scientific Touch on Sanity and Sanctity

Abstract

The author stands by the view that science is incomplete and poor when it fails to incorporate and integrate 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Person Perspective, something that Popper may have also noticed and warned about in his time and writings when referring to falsifiability and its limitations and need to be complemented by intuition, imagination and knowledge, derived from subjective experiences based on metaphysical commitments. Only such a sound understanding of what science really is and, like everything else, how it will evolve to allow for a harmonious and aesthetical weaving with spiritual wisdom, revelation and metaphysics, particularly on the subject of what constitutes sacredness, propels me to start with the exploration and meaning of what constitutes the sacredness of water as expressed in the phrase ‘Sacred Waters’. This experience of the sacred, I conjecture, requires our intimacy with a 1^st Person Perspective kind of experiential ‘Now’. Following, I explore the need for 1^st and 2^nd order sanity treated by Paul Werbos as necessary stages for the development of human potential, as well as the need to introduce category theory to decode the languages of the body, hand in hand with the language of the soul. Finally, I briefly highlight a social need that should lead towards a 1^st and 3^rd Person Perspective Decision Science framework conducive to inner peace and social harmony. The reader is encouraged to embrace a synthesis of spiritual wisdom and modern science with its comforts and discomforts and the power that comes with it in ‘dar a luz’ to a new humanity.