The first phase of this method of research correlates well with the struggle experienced by me in clarifying my approach to patients in public health, medical-surgical, and psychiatric mental health situations. In these situations, one truly has to struggle with democratically keeping one's windows open to the world. And this is a continual process. Having experienced this struggle in clinical nursing made this approach to research valid and meaningful to me. Preparing the mind for knowing in clinical or research endeavors may be accomplished by several means. One means is by immersing one's self in dramatic and literary works and contemplating, reflecting on, and discussing them as they relate to the knower's already known, in this case, nursing practice. In clinical or research nursing the selection of literary works to stimulate the opening of one's human view is based on their presentation, depictions, and descriptions of man's nature. In literature authors share their thoughts as men and present possible ways men may view and relate to their worlds. Phase II: Nurse Knowing of the Other Intuitively Bergson conceives of man knowing through a dilatation of his imagination getting inside of, into _le durée_, into the rhythm and mobility of the other. Living the rhythm of the other he believes results in an absolute, intuitive, inexpressible, unique knowledge of the other. He says: "... an absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to go with analysis." "... from intuition one can pass on to analysis, but not from analysis to intuition." "... fixed concepts can be extracted by our thought from the mobile reality; but there is not means whatever of reconstituting with the fixity of concepts the mobility of the real."[14] The known, clinical nursing practice, gave meaning to the above for me. Over the years in nursing conferences I had been told my grasp of nursing situations was intuitive. Most times this was offered rather disparagingly although the nursing outcomes were most times successful. Along with having {72} the attribute of intuition assigned to me persons often asked, "Why are you so fascinated with other persons' situations?" Together these relate to Dewey's view of intuition. He views intuition as a mulling over of conditions and a mental synthesis that results in true judgments since the controlling standards are intelligent selection, estimation, and problem solution.[15] In nursing practice research knowing the other and how he experiences and views his world is viewed as the problem.