When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

A quote by John Muir.

Let's get into the heart of holism and holistic thinking. There's so

much material to cover here that there's actually going to be an additional part

next week so stay tuned for that.

As always, sometimes the best material I save for last as we build up.

But if you haven't watched already, make sure you go watch my previous episode called

What Are Holons, where we lay the foundation for what will, for what we'll be talking about today.

So, basically at this point you should understand that everything in the universe is connected to everything else in case that wasn't clear

but for a lot of people this isn't clear because they're looking at the universe through

the filter of their selfish ego mind and this creates distortions and causes us to think unholistically.

And when people tend to think unholistically, this leads to pathology,

disease and even evil, in quotes, evil.

And that's why this topic is so important and we'll be going into just exactly

what the connection is between lack of holism and evil

deeper in this episode. But before we get to that, first let's define holism

in a formal way.

If we look at the dictionary, the Oxford dictionary definition says the following.

Quote, it's the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection such that they cannot exist

independently of the whole or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is

thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts."

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