The KEW Acid Tests ask how Nature can inform the big questions humans ask. “Why are we here?”, “Who am I?”, and “What is our purpose” have puzzled humans for years – perhaps millennia. In the past 4,000 years or so, we have employed philosophy, religion, and science as mechanisms to ask and answer these big questions. While we certainly have learned a lot, the questions are too big to have definitive answers. I don’t think they’re the kind of questions that require answers. The joy is in the asking. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
My background in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, as integrated with my spiritual journey, experience with therapy and coaching, interactions with psychedelics, and general curiosity have led me to a new model. This model is a combination of all the experiences and disciplines, the authors and speakers, and the intentional and random interactions in the world around me. The title of this article is an attempt to describe the method, but I don’t know if it is accurate. This is just the way I think. And I don’t see a lot of other people employing a similar approach.
The key difference, I think, in how I approach the big questions is that I am more concerned with the passion, enthusiasm, spirit, and flow elements of the process. I am not ‘hung up’ following some prescribed method or standard nor am I restricted by obeying laws or norms. I simply follow my curiosity to fill in as many of the holes as I can using whatever resources are available.
The danger in this type of approach is for it to resemble a ‘pulling it out of my ass’ approach where I basically just make up whatever sounds good. This is not that. I am influenced by the rigorous scientific training I have been fortunate to experience. I can’t help but follow a system that attempts to reduce bias and employ sophisticated analyses to AVOID overlaying my beliefs or opinions. I respect that and necessarily include it in my approach. I believe in accountability.
I also believe in thinking outside the box, for lack of a better term. I don’t answer to anyone but myself. I don’t have an agenda. I don’t want your money. I want to understand more and believe in asking questions in different ways to do so.
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