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Figure 18. Soaring, by Andrew Wyeth. Collection, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne,
Vermont.

physical world alone; that was the science model of a past era, which cut
our humanity off from its life source and cut the heart and soul out of
our personal and professional lives and work (Watson 2005).
As we examine the truth of Belonging-Being-Knowing and Doing
our caring-healing work in the world, how can we any longer bear
to sustain and perpetuate an empty, hollow model? Especially once
we honor and acknowledge our participation with the infinity and
the mystery of healing and life itself? This evolving model of Caring
Science opens science and our knowing to its Source—not its separa-
tion—from the knowable and unknowable to a wisdom that knows
and honors/surrenders to the differences. (Watson 2005:67)

Now we reenter a new space in which there is once again room for
miracles in our life and work and world. This era in Caring Science is
a time for reenchantment of the wonders, the unknowns, the myster-
ies of the universe, awakening the heart as well as the wisdom-seeking
mind, beyond knowledge itself. Such an opening in our worldview
takes us to the last Carative Factor/Caritas Process.

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