#holarchy

Molecules awoke one morning to find that atoms were inside them, enfolded in their very being. And cells awoke one morning to find that molecules were actually inside them, as part of their very being. And you might awake one morning and find that nature is a part of you, literally internal to your being. You are not a part of nature, nature is a part of you. And for just that reason, you treat nature as you would treat your lungs or your kidneys. A spontaneous environmental ethics surges forth from your heart, and you will never again look at a river, a leaf, a deer, a robin, in the same way.

The Great Chain theorists, beginning as early as Leibniz, began to realize that the Great Chain could best be understood as a holarchy that is not given all at once, but rather unfolds over enormous stretches of historical and geographical time—starting with matter, then the emergence of sensation in life forms, then perception, then impulse, then image, and so on. And thus, about a century before Darwin, it was widely accepted in educated circles that the Great Chain had actually unfolded or developed over vast time. And—this was crucial—since the Great Chain contained no "gaps" or holes (because the plenitude of Spirit fills all empty spaces), the research agenda was to find any "missing links" in evolution.

So Spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest rung in the ladder, but it's also the wood out of which the entire ladder is made. It is both the Goal and the Ground of the entire sequence.

So first comes the whole rather vaguely defined, and then the separate parts slowly emerge in the whole.

Pre-launch pipeline test — not official Holarchy brand.

Connections The Original Musicosophy band is an Indie band, which means that we have never had the benefit of outside help in marketing, procuring work, recruiting new members, and corresponding with our cherished followers. Being Indie means you have to be strong and learn to do things on your own. This affords many opportunities for personal growth and expansion, as well as earning you plenty of street credentials for Lived Experience. In this respect it resonates with the powerful grassroots Peer Movement, where each experienced member mentors the new apprentices. We form a human chain of strength-based network connections, unafraid to assist or depend upon each other. En route to these practices, everyone we encounter –from the waitress to the manager– becomes assimilated into our Holarchic Indie Collective.

The flowering wand affirms the holarchic nature of reality: we are matryoshka dolls of being, simultaneously composed of worlds and constituting larger worlds, systems that can be understood only in their connective plurality, rather than when broken down to parts. This view, only recently accepted in mainstream science, is central to most Indigenous belief systems.