In Panosophy, hologenesis is a generic term to denote all evolutionary processes, where Life generates wholes that are greater than the sum of the preceding structures by the new relationships that are formed, apparently out of nothing, synonymous with holism.

The double negative in the etymology of anitya tells us that only that which is not born is immortal and eternal. Thus everything that is born into the relativistic world of form is impermanent.

Coined by E. Hæckel in 1866 and used by Charles Darwin in 1872 in the fifth edition of Origin of Species. “The genesis and evolution of the phylum, tribe, or species; ancestral or racial evolution of an animal or plant type, or of particular organs or other components of a plant or an animal.” (OED) This definition can be extended to include civilizations, corresponding to species, and concepts, corresponding to organs.

Defined in 1872: “The ontogeny of every organism repeats itself in brief … it’s phylogeny, i.e. the individual development of every organism … repeats approximately the development of its race.” (OED) In other words ontogeny generally recapitulates phylogeny, a principle that embraces both the evolution of species in the biosphere and of civilizations in the noosphere. However, if ontogeny always recapitulated phylogeny, no new species or civilizations could ever appear.

Nature is one of the trickiest words in the English language, meaning almost anything you want it to mean. For, as Strunk & White wrote in The Elements of Style in 1979, “Nature should be avoided in such vague expressions as ‘a lover of nature’, ‘poems about nature’. Unless more specific statements follow, the reader cannot tell whether the poems have to do with natural scenery, rural life, the sunset, the untouched wilderness, or the habits of squirrels.”