Their obsession to control and predict obscures their inability to grasp dimensions superior to man or even concede their existence. Bohm makes it clear that even in the experimental physical realm such a denial is on increasingly shaky ground. Murray Gell-Man and other researchers are obviously uncomfortable with the metaphysical impact of findings in Relativity, Quantum Physics and more recently Chaos Theory. First of all, it is not strictly true. Anthropologists, for example, have verified that basic counting numbers, for example, turn up everywhere.
Religion is everywhere.
The search for meaning and value is everywhere. Smith even describes an experience in which he was stranded in the African desert among tribesmen with whom he quickly established communication and who rescued him from his predicament. Yet within an hour they had established a friendly rapport. On the human scale, this is more in tune with wholeness than fragmentation and division, something we should keep in mind. Positivism at most can just wave its hand at these phenomena.