The Holographic Domain
“What is organism (with its component organs) is no longer sharply distinguished from what lies outside the boundaries of the skin. In the holographic domain, each organism represents in some manner the universe, and each portion of the universe represents in some manner the organism within it.”
–Karl Pribram (Austrian-born American Neuroscientist, 1919-)
“The Relevance of Bliss: A Contemporary Exploration of Mystic Experience” (Nona Coxhead)
What the World Mother Might Say…
“A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence.
But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves.
To Her elder offspring She says – “Go raid the fridge.” “Go play outside.” “Go get a job.” “Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining.”
–David Brin (American Writer and Former Physics Professor and NASA Consultant, 1950- )
The Net of the Universe
“The universe (is) a great spread-out net with at every joint a gem, and each gem not only reflecting all the others but itself reflected in all.”
–Joseph Campbell (American Writer, Editor and Mythologist, 1904-1987)
The Oneness of the World
“The parts of the world are all so related and linked to one another, that I believe it impossible to know one without the other and without the whole.”
–Blaise Pascal (French Scientist and Religious Philosopher, 1623-1662)
Work On Yourself and You Work On The World
“We work on ourselves then, in order to help others. And we help others as a vehicle for working on ourselves.”
–Ram Dass (a.k.a. Richard Alpert, American Spiritual Teacher, Author and Lecturer, 1931-)
Impulse and Community
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
–William James (American Psychologist and Philosopher, 1842-1910)
We Are Parts of a Whole
“We are parts of a whole, and the whole must draw us as soon as we open our doors: this is grace working upon and within us.”
–Arthur Edward Waite (American-born English Scholar, Mystic and Esotericist, 1857-1942)
Energy Consciousness
“A transcendent energy consciousness informs the whole world and informs you.”
–Joseph Campbell (American Writer, Editor and Mythologist, 1904-1987)
The Universal Flux of Events and Processes
“Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped.
However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man’s notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, i.e. in his world-view then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks.
Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes.”
–David Bohm (American-born Theoretical Physicist and Philosopher, 1917-1992)
Notes on a Musical Score
“Each individual life is as special as a note on a musical score where…each fills a designated space….When such individual musical notes are played together, a melody emerges; when nature, including man, responds appropriately through the intertwining of all its unique vibrations, harmony of life emerges.”
–Meredith L. Young-Sowers (American Writer and Creator of the Stillpoint Model of Integrative Life Healing)
