Co-operative inquiry rests on a participative view of the world, a world not of separate things but of relationships which we co-author. Human beings as centres of consciousness in the cosmos are both autonomous and linked in a generative web of dynamic communion with other humans and the rest of creation. The world we experience as 'reality' is a co-creation that involves the primal givenness of the cosmos and human feeling and construing. This accords with a range of perspectives on the human condition, including the process philosophy of Whitehead (1929; Griffin, 1989), the cybernetic epistemology of Bateson (1972), a transpersonal view of the person (Heron, 1992), and the 'creation spirituality' view of the human as part of a self-creating cosmos (Fox, 1983; Swimme and Berry, 1992). On this view, participation is a way of knowing in which knower and known are distinct but not separate, in an unfolding unitive field of being (Reason, 1993; forthcoming).
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