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Introduction

“Paper in Progress” looked like a great idea: several authors comment and
inspire one another and think ahead, meeting artists on the way around the
world.

What does this mean: “Paper in Progress”?
The first author writes 1-2 pages on the topic and sends it to me, then I send
it to the next of the four authors. This author again writes 1-2 pages, can read
what he has received, can comment on it; inspired by what he has read, he Werner May
will write new ideas. Then he sends the result to me. And so on.
There will be two stages, meaning that every author will get the Paper in
Progress twice.

And what does this mean: “Meeting an artist on the way“?
After the third author I will send the paper to an artist. He or she can read
everything, and is challenged to formulate what he / she has understood in
an art work.
The art work will be integrated into the paper so that the following authors
can be inspired by the art work in their writing.
During the second stage, a second artist will get the paper for a second art
work.

And I managed to find others ready to take part in this idea. Thank you.
I am happy to present the result here. You will be interested to read and con-
sider these impulses from different continents, from different cultures and
different backgrounds, from different professional perspectives. Thank you
to all contributors!
But, from my point of view, I have failed here! I did not succeed in reaching
the goal of mutual inspiration.
Why?
I think this idea is not so suitable for a psychological topic which cannot
easily be developed further on 1-2 pages. Such topics are much too complex
and go too deep. Further development, and inspiration for new hypotheses,
need time, time taken from your life, time for studies, time for research, …
Even with clearer instructions to the authors, as already mentioned, the goal
would not have been reachable. I failed to provide these clearer instructions
because the basic idea fascinated me. This may be understandable, but is not
a justification.
Despite all this, we do not want to withhold the result from you and not
from the authors. To be quite honest, the whole project was also fun. And
the contributions, the cooperation, the variety of thoughts make it worth
continuing with the reading!

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