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This piece was inspired by, and almost directly quotes from, a paragraph from a book by, and about, "Martha Rogers", p. 206.  Here she is applying health science holoistic systems and experimental methods theory to nursing and other caregiver applications.  I have expanded her landscape considerably--in part because she is drawing from a lineage of teachers familiar to me.  These are Ernest Nagel, Karl Popper (and probably Thomas Kuhn, although he does not appear in her bibliography for this chapter), Michael Polanyi, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Hempel.

Send me no more peak experiences. They are too dear for my everyday time budget of liberal liberated liberating resonantly exhausting compassion. I am too addicted to conserving resilient peaks, avoiding dissonant valleys of mundane anonymity sometimes winning sometimes losing in-between equanimity integrity of co-empathic co-arising intent for more co-operatively rooted heights of sacred generosity reciprocally felt gratitude, positive, democratically sustainable attitude. Every scientific cause-effect karmic statement of peak interactive experience does not have to be tested before it is accepted, But, to become an accepted hypothesis of peak cultural interest it must be capable of being deductively tested for sequential or co-arising peak, or appositional unpeak, relationship consistent at least within prescribed parameters. Every faith statement need not have been personally experienced before it is too often accepted as orthodox belief, But, good faith best be capable of leading toward co-arising climaxes of copassionate experience. History of great scientific and religious revolutions provides examples of paradigms and medicines and cognitive-affective natural-spiritual ecological-theological therapies found explicitly useful long before becoming autonomous subjects of reductive cause-effect karmic experiential experimentally reified verification. History of great faith revolutions provides win/win external-nature/internal-nurture cooperative examples of medicines and paradigms and meditations and thought experiments and bicameral polyphonic confluence found prophetically useful long before becoming subjects for inductive co-arising compassion. Scientific and religious historians would not reasonably conclude that testing hypotheses, of win/win positive correlations, win/lose negative bipolar reverse correlations, and lose/lose not/not correlated unpolynomial variables, independent and dependent interdependent codependent bilateral testing is unnecessary or ill-advised or acts of leftbrain deductive peaking hubris. Rather, ecological and theological theories, physical and metaphysical, may be politically and economically and spiritually and naturally and culturally and socially and psychologically and neurologically significant even before leftbrain dominant tested for peak winleft/winright experiential outcomes. The generation of deductive theory, like regeneration of inductive good faith statements, grows out of abstract leftbrain thoughts conversing with rightbrain feelings, metaphysical thought experiments faithfully distinct from win/win climax confirming or win/lose physically disconfirming or lose/lose misconfirming unexperience. Bicameral co-arising positive faith formulation of scientific and religious karmic theories of causation, linear and/or spiraling spacetime, leftbrain dominantly reductive and/or rightbrain prominently inductive, subtractive and/or summative, spatially differentiated and/or spacetime holistic, Cooperatively predict healthy resilient relationships between understanding and standing under holistic systemic openness to healing win/win peak experiences, hope, faith, love, polyempathic compassion. Capacity to envision new co-arising ways of perceiving peak causal phenomena and to propose powerful prophetic explanations for good faith positive health perceptions is a leftbrain characteristic of linear-deductive metaphysical formulation, 3Dimensioned orthodox spatial maps structures, tropic frames of trophic reference. RightBrain co-relational observation and LeftBrain experimentation do not, in competitive isolation, provide bicameral revolutionary peak experience polyphonic reconceptions without which faithful everyday inquiry is randomly aimless and dispassionately blind to peak poly-empathic experiences, Too unresiliently dear for ego's everyday time budget of good faith liberal liberated liberating liberation, resonantly inhaling exhausted compassions of history's polycultural peak experiences.

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