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childhood and adolescence science and technology were 'disciplines' studied by those wishing tobe doctors, engineers, mechanics or 'artisans'. I was 'encouraged' rather to pursue the arts,humanities and languages and, as a result, learned little in physics and chemistry that ismemorable, or useful. Today, such a binary approach would not be helpful as it is in the comingtogether of the disciplines that real advances in knowledge and understanding seem to be made.The Santa Fe Institute, as described by Waldrop, exemplifies this point admirably:"Basically, what I'm saying is not at all new to Eastern philosophy. It's never seen theworld as anything else but a complex system. But it's a world view that, decade by decade,is becoming more important in the West - both in science and in culture at large."(Waldrop, 1992 p. 333)Even before I had encountered, what might on the face of it be described as a hard-nosed,(computer) scientific theory like 'Complexity', I had also read the seminal insights of PierreTeilhard de Chardin (1960), the creation-centred insights of Fox (1982) and a significant amountof popular science (e.g. Lovelock, 2009). Each of these, in their own ways was leading me to anunderstanding of the world that was not able to isolate scientific world-views from spiritualones."The arrangement of the parts of the universe has always been a source of amazement tomen. But this disposition proves itself more and more astonishing as, every day, ourscience is able to make a more precise and penetrating study of the facts. The farther andmore deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, themore we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts." (Teilhard, 1960 p. 44)Elsewhere in this study, I have embraced Naughton's (2000) description of autobiographicmoments as 'magic' or 'miracle', metaphorical language which locates the discourse right on theedges of hard-nosed scientism and philosophy and theology. There is, of course, nothingmetaphysical about the insights afforded to the human condition in the 21st Century bycomputer-aided technology, though sometimes the outputs provoke a reaction similar to thatdescribed as 'awe and wonder' in the DFES Circular 1/94 (DFES, 1994). What is actually36Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)