"Paradox and Transformation"

A friend sent me a link to this excellent paper  co-authored by Nancy C. Maryboy of the Indigenous Education Institute, physicist David H. Begay and Lee Nichol of the Nyingma Tibetan Institute.  This section struck me as particularly significant:

"There is ample evidence of empirical thinking in all Indigenous cultures, an aspect of thinking in which the narrowed vision of problem-solving is vigorously exercised. The crucial point here is that the narrowed empirical vision is occurring in dynamic relationship with the wisdom matrix, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously."

My study of Goethe in the light of Pierre Hadot's take on ancient philosophy has suggested to me that, though Western consciousness has become individuated to the point of pathology, there exists a living stream of Western consciousness that has avoided this pitfall.   The consciousness structure that is emerging from this stream would, perhaps, look a good deal like Maryboy et al's model of indigenous cognitive processes in which "deeper holistic knowings naturally 'govern' the more limited empirical knowings."