Creative critique and anthropo-philosophy

or systems of thought is the one key to Truth. Such an approach to truth is altogether too abstract and simple in a world which we experience as moving and complex. Our own life experience is full enough of relative and temporary reality without grasping after the Truth, which can only be an abstract idea. We hope to discover a system of relationships within our life-experience, and by that criterion investigate the philosophic and religious systems and world views and their relationship to one another.

They do indeed contradict one another, but as our own personal experience is full of contradictions we do not exclude the possibility, which has at least been thought by Hegel, that there is a system of Truth itself which is a continuously developing system and contains and always will contain logically irreconcilable contradictions within it.

It may be that not only our physical senses and intellect but also our feelings and will are organs of knowledge and that there can be an integral science of knowledge and a science of Man. But the method and end of these sciences would not be the attainment of some intellectually self-consistent truth, but the gradual self knowledge by which Man is able to discover the relationship between the Universe, the Earth and himself. It would be that living wisdom by which Man may meet actual problems and situations so as to work towards the realisation of his meaning and purpose on the planet Earth and to enable each individual to attain his own fulness of life.

The knowledge at which we aim, then, is knowledge for the immediate uses of Man—towards world synthesis, or Loka Sangraha, and towards individual self-attainment.

We shall start our investigations from Man as the centre, since it is with human thought that we must work and on human experience that we must rely. We take it as a reasonable point from which to start that Man is the central key to the knowledge of the planet Earth and of the whole Universe.

Organic wholeness is the only integral unity of which we have any experience, for we cannot imagine mere aggregations or pieces of machinery, however complicated, as possible patterns for

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