Wholes/Parts (Part II)
Wholes/Wholes?
Wholes/Parts (Part II)
Wholes/Wholes?
In days of yore, or more appropriately in this case, ‘in di fargangene teg,’ a well-known comedian in the Yiddish tradition, the one called Myron Cohen did a racy joke in live appearances only.
Although Cohen was a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson shows he never did this gag on television. Too dangerous. Oh, how times have changed.
Everything is funnier with a little Yiddish tem (flavor, for those who have never toiled in the shadow of the Hollywood Sign). Avay ve go anivays.
“A married woman is in bed with a man in the middle of the day. The man is not her husband. Can you imagine such a thing?
Her husband, a hard working responsible man, is away at work where he’s supposed to be. In the garment center, peddling shmates (dresses). He works long and hard everyday, all day, from morning until night, without fail. A good provider.
On this day he comes home early. His wife is startled to hear him at the door, she shouts out ’is that you, Sweetheart? Are you alright?’
In hushed tones she rushes her naked lover out of bed and points him to the closet. He gathers his clothes from the floor and runs into hiding.
Her husband says from the other room, ‘I’m fine. There was a fire in the shop. No one was hurt. We closed for the day. It’s ok, you shouldn’t worry. Tomorrow will come, another day, another dollar.’
The husband enters the bedroom and is alarmed to find his wife in bed midday. “Are you ok? What are you doing in bed?’
‘I had a little headache, so I put my head on the pillow for a minute or two.”
Without noticing she was naked under the covers, he goes to the closet to hang up his well pressed suit, as you would expect a hard working, meticulous garment salesman to do.
Lo and behold (mit’n drinin), there’s a man in the closet. The husband, asks the man, ‘what are you doing here?’
The man answers, ‘everybody’s gotta be somewhere.’
Out Of The Closet and Into The Cosmos
As it turns out, Ladies and Germs, everybody’s gotta be everywhere. Always.
We live life alive in continuous consciousness. Holons nested within holons ad infinitum, in all realms and all levels, so that we sense our lives as continuous play in an infinite way.
“I wanted to teach people to listen to the pulse of nature, to partake in the wholeness of life and not forget, under the pressure of their petty destinies, that we are children of earth, part of the cosmos.” ~Herman Hesse
When we feel our experience as nested holons, each phenomena as part and whole, we sense life as lived alive in a grand cosmic dance. Lila.
Life in a holoarchy urges us to sense experience as whole and continuous. As Cosnic Consciousness.
We can feel that life in holoarchy brings with it a kind of top-down influence, cosmic guidance, and a kind of bottom-up influence, deep wisdom.
Holons interact with each other in this bi-directional dance felt in all we do. We feel part and whole moment to moment, from morning coffee to tuck in time.
Holons allow story to unfold from phenomena of all sizes, from subatomic particles to integral mind. They shape everything from quarks to consciousness.
We are both simple and complex appearances in consciousness. With practice we notice with greater and greater clarity that our material substantiality is part of a hidden order (Maya).
Pay Attention
The experience we’ve come to see as chaos, when not tied down in language, concepts, and tightly held beliefs, isn’t chaos at all. It’s cosmic choreography. Like kaleidoscopic fractals, our lives have hidden order made of beauty and ever emerging surprises.
We live as holons. We story galactic mysteries as life lived alive. We live interdependent and integral lives playing as parts and wholes.
We are called to share generously. To pay attention.
“Attention is the rarest and purest from of generosity.” ~Simone Weil
We shall meet next time explicitly in the Holographic Universe. We’ll explore holograms. Where every part contains the whole, and the whole contains every part.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order.
“The whole is contained in every bit; that is why it is called a hologram. In a similar way, every aspect of the universe is contained within each of us. The forces that comprise matter throughout the cosmos are found in each atom of the body. Every strand of my DNA carries the entire evolutionary history of life. My mind contains the potential of every thought that ever was or will be expressed. Understanding this reality is the key to the door of life - the entrance to unbounded freedom. Experiencing this reality is the basis of real wisdom." ~David Simon, M.D.
Our universal theater, a cosmic illusion, is our delight. We’re here to play and love, to live life alive.
TO ACT HUMAN.
Here’s Jack to tease us:
Until Next Time,
Lights Up!
Reading the quote by Herman Hesse, took me instantly back to myself at aprox age 15, when I first read Siddhartha.. And it changed my life and set me on a path of self discovery, back then ... How I loved that book... So much wisdom... How forgetful we can be.. What a perfect quote, thank you Richard for sharing your wisdom with all of us 🙏💕
Dubin (formerly known as Richie when you were Clark’s older brother - now we are all the same age!). I am thoroughly enjoying your ideas. Just playing with the word universe to include “you” was brilliant. As you say, we are all part of everything, “part of the cosmos”!! To remember that we are both part and whole is helpful to broaden our perspective. It can change the way we listen to others. And the way you would start your classes to get everyone to more clearly know eachother, and not just their names. You built a community for those students. As a former teacher, that was always an important piece to help students thrive. Finally, the point about attention being a form of generosity is so spot on. If you want others to feel part of the whole, you must pay attention to them. It is what helps them thrive. Which is what you are doing to your/our community of readers. Thank you.