Holistic

Cooking is a holistic

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Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe … Read more

My main professional interest

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My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our … Read more

In the Germany of

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In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a \”hunger for wholeness\”. Organismic biology, Gestalt … Read more

The new paradigm may

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The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term \”ecological\” is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of … Read more

There is a strong

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There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ‘ holistic ‘ views as some sort of cure-all… Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain… there … Read more

A lot of people

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A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease – genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we’re not doing what we promised we would do – which is … Read more

Only the heart knows

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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it’s not. The heart is intuitive; it’s holistic, it’s contextual, it’s relational. It doesn’t have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer – the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power – and … Read more