New Paradigms New Perspectives The evolution of consciousness is basically the expansion and deepening of perspectives. ..The old modes of doing and thinking cannot anymore solve the problems of our age. We must and higher modes of living and looking at things. Holism is a new paradigm that intuits the solutions of the problems of our age. It connotes that living and non living components function as an integrative and complete whole. It considers that all things are wholes which are a part of a larger whole or holons (Arthur Koesler) It means the interrelatedness of all things, organic wholeness, non-separation of lives, the great chain of being, ecology, universal kinship. It is the unity and struggle of opposites as holons unite themselves to larger wholes and at the same time struggle their own autonomy—as of night and day, male and female, life and death, male and female. Holism holds that the universe is made up of complete integrated systems or wholes, which stretch from the micro to the macrocosmic levels. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Everything is related to its context, hence is dependent on the whole. Process and change exceeds static stability. All parts of the cosmos form one vast , complex, inextricable whole. All is one and one is all. The creative emergence of the larger view of life signals the beginning of the end and the arrival of the new!
