"Unlike the positivistic-scientific methodological principles of knowledge and development which display murderous cultural arrogance and cognitive disrespect for people, a number of renowned scholars and writers have begun to understand what traditional wisdom has always known, namely, that holistic posture must be founded on reverence for the universe and for living beings within it. This means in effect that a metaphysical world-view and teleological resolutions of life are not to be taken as a challenge to the technology and progress necessary to cope with the continuation of the developmental impulse."