When we are babies and infants, we humans are totally dependent on our parents for nourishment and nurturing, in a process that the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits called enculturation in Man and his Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology in 1948.

The basic paradigm for our cognitive studies of the world we live in is the fundamental law of the Universe, called the Principle of Unity in Panosophy, stating, Wholeness is the union of all opposites. This paradoxical paradigm, which Heraclitus of Ephesus aptly called the Hidden Harmony, denotes a peaceful, both-and way of life, in contrast to the conflict-ridden, either-or approach, which has dominated human affairs during the five or six thousand years of the patriarchal epoch.