Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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sol-

PIE base ‘whole, well-kept’. See also kailo-, root of health, holy, and whole.

Other derivatives include safe, sage ‘herb’, solid, consolidate, solemn, solicit, and catholic ‘relating to the whole’,

It seems to be a happy coincidence that the PIE base for all the holo- words, via Greek, should have a quite different PIE base from health, holy, and whole, through Old High German and Old English.

[Pokorny *solo-, sol(e)u̯o-,  pp. 979–980.]

saviour

There is no need for the word saviour in its traditional religious sense in Panosophy, for Panosophers live in harmony with the fundamental law of the Universe, that is, of the Divine.

catholic

This is a classic case of where we need to rescue a word from its Greek roots, using catholic to mean ‘universal, generally applicable’. For Integral Relational Logic and the Universal Relationships Theory are just that, constructed on the most universal, primal concept of being.

holomovement

David Bohm coined the word holomovement in a paper titled ‘Quantum theory as an indication of a new order: B. Implicate and explicate order in physical law’, published in 1973 in Foundations of Physics, published as Chapter 6 in Wholeness and the Implicate Order in 1980. Part A was published in 1971 with the subtitle ‘The development of new orders as shown through the history of physics’, Chapter 5 in his seminal book.

solitude

The etymology of solitude indicates that the Romans understood that to be alone, living away from the turbulent world outside, leads to security and Wholeness (in union with the Divine).

Solitude is even more important today, with society degenerating into more and more chaos. For J. Krishnamurti wisely said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

holotropic

Coined by Stanislav Grof to mean ‘turning towards the Whole’, in a similar manner to heliotropic ‘turning towards the Sun’. However, the related Greek verb trepo ‘to turn’ has two meanings, as in English: ‘to change direction’ (as in ‘turn into a side-road’), and ‘to change form’ (as in ‘turn into a frog’). So holotropic can be said to have two meanings, the second being ‘transforming the Whole’, using -tropic in the same sense as entropic.

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