Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00342)

Friends, 
 
If  we start a research project about a complex healing establishment – like a hospital, for instance – and if we  aim at really understanding it, what will we do? 
 
Will we limit ourselves to researching on the bureaucratic procedures and the power politics in the Hospital, feeding on its “bizarre” aspects from the viewpoint of our own perhaps narrow minds, or will we investigate the heart of the matter,  that is, how the actual healing takes place, in what consists the process of  human pain and how to extirpate its sources, and so on? 
 
Every researcher has to make a judgement and a choice between the flame and the smoke, the essence and the non-essentials,  inner music and outer noise, in his chosen subjects and fields of action. 
 
Of course, not everything in the Hospital will be open to us;  and getting frustrated about the Hospital or criticizing and ridiculing it will not help research, if research and understanding is, indeed, our goal. 
 
Best regards,   Carlos. 


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