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It's really an unorthodox and unacademic thing to do.

To start a discussion with a group of psychologists on the subject of metaphysics.

But we have to do that.

Because a lot of people say that their approach to life is scientific as distinct from metaphysical.

And that metaphysics is Bosch anyway.

But everybody by virtue of being a human being is willy-nilly a metaphysician.

That is to say everybody starts from certain fundamental assumptions

as to what is the good life, what he wants, what are his, shall we say, axioms for living.

And I find that psychologists tend to be blind to these fundamental assumptions.

Maybe it's true of psychiatrists than it is with psychologists.

They tend to feel that they are scientists.

They're rather bending over backwards to have a scientific status because that, of course, is fashionable in our age.

But you know it's so amusing that when, say, let's take psychoanalysis, for example, has pointed out to many philosophers

that their philosophical ideas are capable of being shown to have a psychoanalytic reference.

For example, John Wisdom wrote a book about the philosophy of Berkeley in which he attributed a great deal of his point of view to his experiences in toilet training as a child.

The philosopher is very grateful to the psychoanalyst for revealing to him his unconscious and its emotional contents.

But the psychoanalyst must in turn await the revelation from the philosopher as to his philosophical unconscious and the unexamined assumptions which lie in it.

So if I may start by insulting your intelligence with what is called the most elementary lesson,

the thing that we should have learned before we learned one, two, three, and ABC, that somehow was overlooked.

Now, this lesson is quite simply this that any experience that we have through our senses, whether of sound or of light or of touch, is a vibration.

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