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cannot be explained entirely in terms of the parts". He advocates that science cannot be adequate until it recognizes "inner conscious awareness as a causal reality". Modern science has verified the quality of whole-making, the characteristic of nature to put things together in an evermore synergistic, meaningful pattern. Spirituality deals with exploring and understanding the fundamental whole-making characteristic of nature. It essentially deals with exploring and understanding the wholeness of nature. Understanding comes only through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one's total psychological process. Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole existence is gathered.
Holography records a three-dimensional reality in a hologram. Each part of the hologram has the inherent capacity to reconstruct the entire image. Holography is both scientific and technological, as well as being suggestive of the basic metaphor that is emerging for describing existence at all levels. Its basic tenets are simply that the whole is in every part, and every part of every reality contains the whole.
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Spirituality begins with the awareness of the whole. It analyses the particular as organically related to the whole. One proceeds from the whole and with the awareness of the whole he observes the parts. The particular separated from the whole has really no meaning for the spiritual enquirer.
Thought is successive and discontinuous, so the unit of life is experience. Experience is the product of the experiencer (subject), the experienced (object) and the experiencing (subject-object relationship), when they all come to play at a particular moment in a given field of time-space matrix. This brings in subject-object dualism. In spirituality the experience is based on the frame of reference in the mind spectrum and each frame has its own level of perception. To understand the unit of perception,
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