Holism -- some informal remarks

Go and seek... go and be healed... go with power... and this power can only be acquired with a holistic worldview.

Holism... I like the sound of the word.

It makes me whole, healthy.

It makes me want to say hail – to all things healthy and strong, wholesome and holy, healing and harmonic.

Wholes, we must see wholes. The Big Picture. Contrariwise, like the current strain in human thought, to reduce everything into observable bits and pieces, is the wrong way to go.

To make sense of the world we must start with a vision of something greater than ourselves. And that vision isn’t gained by using our five material senses. It’s gained by looking inside – by introspection – by using the sixth sense, the inner eye, the pineal gland.

In homine interiore habitat veritas.

Truth resides in man’s inner.

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You could say that holism is the goal and the starting point. We both start and finish in the whole, in the lap of God. This is an elliptic, circular way of conceiving stuff. It is not for the dissected mind yearning to roam in a labyrinth of chaos.

But reductive science can of course find structures too. It isn’t all chaos. School science has indeed discovered the periodic system. That system is an expression of a higher order. Of a noetic field structure in matter. It’s a whole expressing itself in details, like the elements.

Further, even reductive science uses intuition, heurekas, and holistically given impulses.

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Even today's formally analytic and cold science can be holistic.

Just take Alfred North Whitehead, a paragon of scientific astuteness. He lived 1861-1947.

He for instance said: “Any system is a self-referential pattern, perceivable solely by intuition.”

This is pretty much contrary to reductionism. That which otherwise is the norm in today's academia.

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There's more to say about science working in mysterious ways.

Like this: sometimes, scientists can get their ideas right out of the blue. We call them inspirations, brainwaves, “Lidner Snaps,” and “heurekas,” the latter that which Archimedes experienced when arriving at his famous principle. This old Greek is said to have been in the bath when he realized that “a body immersed in a fluid is affected by an upward force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid”...

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The Swede Bengt Lidner, for his part, was a rather ordinary student before he, as an 11-year-old, experienced an inner jolt, a virtual snap, after which his mental capabilities were substantially raised. This was in the 18th century.

Ideas and even intelligence can come seemingly out of nowhere. Spontaneously. You don’t always have to have a systematic approach in science. Inspiration out of the blue, dreams, whims – this also belongs to the domain of science. Just think of the German F. A. Stradonitz, dreaming of a snake biting its tail, giving Stradonitz the impulse to conceptualize the benzene ring structure. And think of Francis Crick having the vision of the DNA double helix while in a trance. Whims and inspirations lead science forward, not formal logic and reducing everything to dirt. To fathom the unfathomable, you must go Beyond the Beyond.

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As for myself I’m affirming this holistic, intuitive strain, that of man being able to get a vision of structure and order by way of intuition. I move in a gray area between the Sophia of Science and the Muse of Art, ever willing to dream scientifically and “mix some madness into my sagacity,” as one classic author said. I dream consciously and willfully, trying to control my dreams. I try, while dreaming, to remember who I am, trying to do some volitional exercises in dreamland.

I dream, I meditate on the Whole, the holistic beauty of things. Energist ontology is about seeing wholes, the Big Picture. Analysis and dissection are mere instruments to understand the holistically working micro- and macrocosm.

Holism is the goal and the starting point. This is formalized into the acronym HITGATS. Holism Is The Goal And The Starting Point.

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You can read more about holistic science, culture, ethics, and ontology, in my groundbreaking study from 2016: Borderline.







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