1-EDITORIAL
Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
In the research there are many points to be known:
falsified results
repeated results
results with no value
positive results
extraordinary results
revolutionary results, the ones which may change an era or concept, historically considered unchangeable.
The first five immanents are earthy, belonging to the human species, beginning from lies up to the contribution which change the behavior.
The sixth is transcendental. It's a belief. It's faith. It comes from the ground, the humus, from the humble and from man. And the researches transcending, in order of growth may be for a metaphysics (fundamental rules of thought and the study of the being while being); teophylosophy or teofania (manifestation of God); preternatural and finally supernatural (divinity).
What does this glossary have to do with the research accomplished by us humans?
In my thinking as a surgeon the differential of the real researcher, who does not integrate to fatalism or fundamentalism, is to transcend the work, ideas, ideals, tolerance and donation to a bigger cause, that is, leave a mark of quality flying beyond the rainbow, with the sureness of utopia and chronology.
What emphasizes transcendency, in the researcher, is not the environment, the cues obtained from one investigation or dispute of ideas among his peers in the human and material level, but otherwise the purpose of accomplishing it changing oneself and also changing the concepts or knowledge considered uncontestable truths.
As a physician I concentrate my attention on the principals that change people and concepts, I may assure that this reflection is true and that a true and responsable research gives us full and personnal humanistic accomplishiment, remaining as a referential legacy to those who will come after us.
It is tradition. It is a transfer translated into ideas, efforts, bravery, work, dreams, desinterestedness from the earth interests and the growth to reach a better world, in the subjective that stays in the transcendent, that raises and leaves permament marks on the generations that suceed and perpetuate in the learning and in the transfering with or without our presence.
It doesn't matter how it is done, if we accomplish it with truth. What justifies the research is what stays, it is what changes, it is what remains, it is what perpetuates, it is what deifies even in our absence.
Therefore the researches will always command the actions, in the intentions, translating the culture and in the permanence we do well. It doesn't belong to the natural relationship of the peers, but of the intervention of one source that excels all the wishes. It is the divine showing Himself to the humans, who dream and remain forever.
The world is renewed day after day. The creation work has not finished. God needs the hands of men to continue it. We vere elected by Him as colaborators liking it or not. This way, everybody, agnostic os believers, materialist or spiritualist we are invited to be the instruments of God in the evolution and betterment of the world. What about all the researches when they have at their reach all the physical, material and intelectual conditions to do it? What was the world before and after Alexander Fleming with his wonder Penicillin; the dentist William T.G. Morton and the physician Horace Wells with their anesthesia and Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis and Louis Pasteur with bacteriology? This regarding their faith these men transcended as researchers and their works benefited all mankind.
"When a life is saved all its generation is saved and the one who kills destroys all the entire generation".
Concluding, the research is immanent and the attitude of the researcher may become transcendent if it exceeds in guided spirituality of ontoethic that helps and promotes the human beings.
Research and spirituality
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Apr 2009
