Word: holism
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...takes great strength and endurance. Intellectually I am better fitted for farming than for writing.” The irony, of course, is that White was both a first-rate intellectual and a competent husbandman—cultivated and cultivator. We too should aspire to this kind of creative holism, where the distinctions between human activities are slowly eroded and erased...
...worthy of inclusion within the annals of history, and he dedicated his life to validating the lives and achievements of black Americans. At a time when the black race was studied only as a burden to the nation, Woodson established the groundwork for the development of an analytical holism that justified the crafting of a methodology about the historical and cultural black experience. Still, the importance of his work did not lie latent in the study of the body historic. Its eminence existed in its willingness to question the tangential position of black humanity globally and highlight the racist motivations...
...CONFINED TO NEW-AGE BOOKSTORES, health-food shops and holistic magazines printed on whole-grain paper. But alternative medicine has now gone slickly mainstream: the subject of TV talk shows, best sellers and even an Oscar-nominated film, Lorenzo's Oil. This veritable flowering -- or plague -- of holism is almost always presented with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a hefty dose of conventional-medicine bashing. Critics of alternative healing are just as narrow-minded: these therapies are unscientific, they say, and therefore cannot work...
...certainly makes intuitive sense that a simple underlying principle should explain such similar behaviors across a wide variety of systems. Indeed, complexity theorists often speak about their science "feeling" or even "tasting" right. Waldrop sometimes jokingly refers to the all- encompassing theory as "the Grand Unified Theory of Holism." The only trouble is, he says, "some people take me seriously...
...anthropic principle and similar ideas on unresolved questions in other areas of science. Those seeking educational reading, however, should look elsewhere; here they will find only confusion. His reinterpretation of the universe in "holistic" or "creative" terms may give Sheldrake a certain popularity in "New Age" circles. But holism must coexist with reductionism, and when science begins to answer multilevel, integrative questions, it will be through the same materialism and hard work it uses now, rather than by a return to mysticism...