Replying to LO29555 --
Dear LO'ers,
I like this dialogue; very interesting.
Since the 'heelmeesters' (litt. 'wholemasters'; old fashioned word for
docter/physician) became specialists we lost our perceptions to wholeness.
Some remarks:
I think that 'blindness' or 'eye less' is too limited. In my mind the
expression 'blind to wholeness' is a self referential paradox. Because
blindness refers only to vision. I think that ex-ception or non-ception
for wholeness is more complete, because it refers to all senses.
Possibly, blindness, or ex-ception has a too much negative connotation. Of
course, in many cases this will be the reason. However, even for people
who are open to the concept of wholeness, their perceptions might not be
complete enough. Possibly this is due to specialisations and the curiosity
for details. I mean that curiosity could pull you into a focus, opening a
new (undiscovered) world with a whole range of aspects of wholeness,
although ínside. This attraction or pull could be so strong that it is
hard to retreat oneself out of this inside world and take distance for
perceiving the minor wholes from in relation to its environments. In other
words - who claims to perceive the wholeness?
Is there THE wholeness? One and only wholeness. Perhaps this is a too
philosophical question. But the existance of many wholes is worth to think
about. One element that plays an important role in this question is scale.
Are you focussed to a part of the complete map, or do you see the whole
map. And then .... on what scale is this map? The city on that map is
indicated as a (red) spot - a near zero dimensional spot. We see this spot
in relation with its surroundings. If we come closer to this spot or
decrease the scale (enlarging detail) of the map, zero dimension will
change to 2D. The city becomes an area with certain dimensions. And we
starrt to see other wholenesses on other scales. With continuation of our
apraoch of that city we begin to see buildings and trees - 3D. Approaching
the tree we might see the nerves in the leaves - 1D.
This change of dimensions seems strange. What dimension has wholeness??
Or, how looks wholeness in 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D, etc? Are there countless
wholenesses?
In the subject header of this thread wholeness is written with a capital:
Wholeness. Did I refer in the former paragraphs to lower case wholenesses?
And is there indeed one Wholeness?
Leo Minnigh
--leo minnigh <minnigh@dds.nl>
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