Finding Reality

<p>How do we know something for sure? How do we decide what's true? In <i>Finding Reality</i> author Dr. Edwin E. Olson shows how the best answers to these questions emerge from the interaction of four ways of knowing:</p><p>Insights: what we imagine based on experience</p><p>Authority: what others have taught us based on their beliefs</p><p>Empiricism: what others have discovered based on evidence</p><p>Praxis: what we learn through our senses</p><p>Drawing from a range of human systems dynamics and scientific psychological philosophical and religious sources this guide discusses how each way of knowing provides a different approach to reality. When the four ways of knowing interact creative outcomes for personal development and exploration of important issues come to fruition.</p><p><b>Praise for <i>Finding Reality</i></b></p><p>This is a wisdom book for twenty-first century seekers of truth and for organizations that need to change. ... Here is a book that identifies and honors multiple ways of knowing reality. Using down-to-earth examples the reader is skillfully and expertly guided through ways of knowing which when brought to bear on our personal and corporate life situations results in creative emergence-the surprising solution that is born when intuition facts inherited wisdom and practice converge. I highly recommend this book.</p><p>- Bruce Sanguin Author of Darwin Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos</p><p>Ed Olson has provided a practical and inspiring map to guide inquiry for personal growth and development in uncertain times.</p><p>- Glenda H. Eoyang Executive Director Human Systems Dynamics Institute</p>