The persona can eventually become ourselves, or an aspect of ourselves, to the point where we don't know which is the mask and which is the I. - F. David Peat

Quantum theory stresses the irreducible link between observer and observed and the basic holism of all phenomena. Indigenous science also holds that there is no separation between the individual and society, between matter and spirit, between each one of us and the whole of nature.

Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.

Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way. ...it is a dynamic and living process, an aspect of the ever-changing, ever-renewing process of nature.