Holon! It's All Good: Single Eye Edition

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This was originally going to be a post about a Robert Louis Stevenson quote, but things have a way of mushrooming, so we'll try to keep it meow-sized, with a slight mix of Gospel and philosophy.

Feeling a bit discombobulated? It's OK, the struggle is real-unreal, because in a moment of temptation, 'materially cattywampus human' became our default setting ...seeing good and evil. The trick is to thoughtfully get into the mind machinery and return the setting to 'spiritually coherent man,' as we were originally shipped to earth ...seeing only good. Accomplishing that feat of mind over matter, with the help of God through Jesus Christ, opens the door to transcendence. (How's that, pbird?)

"Do seeds contain trees or do trees contain seeds? We could say both are true, because 'trees and seeds' is an example of a holon." Likewise, does man contain God, or does God contain man?

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The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. -Luke 11:34

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. -1 John 4:16

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What is a Holon?

"A holon (Greek: ὅλον, from ὅλος, holos, 'whole' and -ον, -on, 'part') is something that is simultaneously a whole in and of itself, as well as a part of a larger whole. In other words, holons can be understood as the constituent part–wholes of a hierarchy.

The holon represents a way to overcome the dichotomy between parts and wholes, as well as a way to account for both the self-assertive and the integrative tendencies of organisms. The term was coined by Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine (1967). In Koestler's formulations, a holon is something that has integrity and identity while simultaneously being a part of a larger system; it is a subsystem of a greater system."

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-LoneStar Neanderthal