Scientific method is based on three basic techniques: deduction, induction, and abduction, introduced by Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and Charles Sanders Peirce, respectively. However, although method meant ‘regular, systematic treatment of disease’ in the 1400s, these methods cannot help us heal our collective traumas and hence our sick society. For, if they could, they would have done so long ago.
Neither, can conventional scientific method, supported by experimental observation of our external environment, answer the most critical unanswered question in science: What is causing scientists and technologists, aided and abetted by computer technology, to drive the pace of scientific discovery and technological development at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration?
To answer this question, we need to abandon all previous methods to engage in self-inquiry, standing outside ourselves to look at our lives from a Divine, Whole-seeing perspective. From this Holoramic vantage point, we can then develop the Method, which starts afresh at the very beginning, with the supreme advantage that it is a miracle, as a gift of God, as the Datum of the Universe.
Such a method takes us right back to the Greek root of method, in pursuit of a healthy way of life, which is in harmony with the Cosmogonic Cycle, the fundamental law of the Universe, and the Dao, the Way that acknowledges that opposites are never separate from each other in Wholeness, cognate with healthy.
Probably before 1425, ‘recommended medical procedure; regular, systematic treatment of disease’, from Latin methodus ‘way of teaching or proceeding’, from Greek methodos ‘method of inquiry, investigation’, originally ‘pursuit, a following after’, from meta ‘in pursuit or quest of’, from prefix meta-, and odos ‘a method, system; a way or manner’, also root of exodus ‘a military expedition; a solemn procession; departure; death’, perhaps from PIE base *sod- ‘course’, Beekes suggests, with rather unclear relationships to Slavic, Iranian, and Sanskrit.