"Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved, and endless."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Holistic-Relational View of Reality
"Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved, and endless." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Our philosophical orientation draws on a perspective embracing the human spirit, science and our planet. It combines the intuitive visions of the great wisdom traditions, and the constructive and unifying insights of modern science. We reject the dominant worldview and social paradigm based on mechanistic thinking, instrumental rationality and economic growth, which render humans isolated from each other and from the rest of nature. Our worldview is rooted in a perception of reality that goes beyond objectivist scientific rationalism, to an intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations, and its perpetual cycles of change and transformation. At the center of this worldview is an understanding of our underlying nature and the organic wholeness of the cosmos that we inhabit and co-create. According to this worldview:
Recommended reading: Bourne, E. J. (2008). Global Shift: How a New Worldview is Transforming Humanity. New Herbinger Publications Bohm, D. (1983). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge Bortoft, H. (1996). The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science. Floris Books Merleau-Ponty, M. (2006). Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge
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