ABSTRACT
The most important thing I got out of this presentation was the amazing tolerance of confusion that this man must have to move into the chaos of this kind of science. It takes the kind of guts I admire. About 20 years ago, I started reading Scientific American. I couldn’t understand 90% of what I read because it was really far advanced. Looking back, it dawned on me that I had learned to tolerate reading things I did not understand. Something was happening to me, whether or not I understood it. Taking things in doesn’t mean you have to understand them. It only means that you have guts enough to take them in. They may still be valuable. My old age has given me more courage. Now I read the Science Newsletter. It comes out every week and has about eight pages of summarizing science, from the cosmic to the subatomic. It’s really very exciting. The practical tolerance of confusion to me is important. If you can tolerate confusion when you listen to patients, then you won’t turn your back on them. You stay in your world with a tolerance of their living in their world. You can thereby respond and resonate even if you don’t understand. You don’t belong in their world, you don’t know where they are, but you are able to help them with more courage as they expose their world to you.
