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*What this message is about: Wholeness is the foundation of the
co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject - embracing many varieties,
dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, as well as many factors that
contribute to or detract from it. Here you'll find materials that open up
that rich and complex realm and attempt to provide some order and context
for it. I believe that most of our personal and social aspirations - such
as health, justice, sustainability, joy, wisdom, community, peace, a sense
of the sacred - are all grounded one way or another in wholeness. The more
we understand it, the better we'll be able to pursue and realize those
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. . . . Whole and Part . . . .

Dear friends,

Since the beginnings of the 1990s I've known that my inquiry into
"co-intelligence" was fundamentally about how to apply wholeness to promote
wholeness. So for more than two decades I've been exploring wholeness to
understand it better.

Many of my models and essays on this subject are available on the
Co-Intelligence Institute's webpage on
wholeness<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1390586068-50f9d7f21ac0f9f555c64fd64d2fbb52-ce6c217?pa=19987789833>.
Other articles, models and notes are tucked away in files.

I find that most people - if they think of wholeness at all - think of it
as one thing. For example: Something is whole if it isn't broken. Or
wholeness has to do with health, or wholesomeness, or integrity. Or
wholeness describes Spirit or the non-dual nature of reality that includes
and/or transcends all the diverse phenomenon of existence.

My own fascination with wholeness comes from the fact that so much of what
we want in our lives and in our visions of a "good society" - health,
justice, sustainability, joy, wisdom, community, peace, a sense of the
sacred - are grounded one way or another in wholeness. It seems to me that
if we understood wholeness better we would more easily and wisely be able
to co-create the good lives and good societies we dream of.

But the topic as a whole (so to speak) is elusive: there are so many
varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness - and so many
factors that contribute to or detract from wholeness - that embracing them
all in any explicit and coherent way seems nearly impossible. I've depended
primarily on my evolving intuition to sense the presence and nature of
wholeness in situations, dynamics, approaches, ideas, proposals, and more.
However, it is hard to communicate that intuitive sense to others.

Given how fundamental it is to the co-intelligence work and so much else, I
decided two years ago to attempt a book or website devoted solely to
exploring and articulating the full dimensions of wholeness. I don't know
if that book or website will ever be realized, but I've decided at this
point to share highlights of my explorations for those interested.

As an introduction, you'll find below the preamble to the Co-Intelligence
Institute's webpage on
Wholeness<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1390586068-8e0bfb7f3e609c09c4821a586cbc7591-ce6c217?pa=19987789833>.
(That page also links to a half dozen articles on wholeness that are not
included in this message.) Following that intro, you'll find a list of
wholeness-related factors that constituted an outline for the book I was
planning to write.

Finally, if you'd like to explore a framework within which most of those
factors fit together more or less coherently, I invite you to visit my
"Dimensions
of Wholeness" model<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1390586068-58520d8aa6531530f6c53655de7a182d-ce6c217?pa=19987789833>.
This features a graphic and an accompanying descriptive text. I am only
including the link here, since the graphic is large for email and the model
is complex enough that it may only interest a few readers. (A portion of
the model graphic is shown at the top of this email.)

I hope the material provided here will prove thought-provoking, inspiring,
and useful in your own life and work.

Blessings on our Journey through wholeness into greater wholeness.

Coheartedly,
Tom

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*WHOLENESS
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In normal usage, the word "whole" means simply complete, entire, undivided,
not ill or injured. Holistic science and philosophy and the study of
systems have added new dimensions to our understandings of wholeness,
understandings which are still developing.

In co-intelligence work, *"wholeness" refers to the inclusive,
ever-evolving coherence of life and its various parts and of the
relationship dynamics between those parts.*This coherence underlies
familiar concepts like health, integrity, wholesomeness, holiness, and
other holistic concepts. Wholeness, itself, has many dimensions and
dynamics which we are exploring in our co-intelligence work.

That said, the fact is that wholeness is both central and not precisely
defined. It is something to "get the feel of." When we talk about
"wholeness" on this site, we are often embracing many overlapping
phenonena, among them these:
1. Attending to the whole means attending to "the big picture" instead of
engaging in narrow-minded glorification of limited information.
2. In a common definition of co-intelligence -- "Accessing the wisdom of
the whole on behalf of the whole" -- the whole can include the whole group,
community, or nation; all the parts of a system or all the adversaries in a
conflict, in generative conversation with each other; and/or the larger
wholeness or Spirit of Life as a source of wisdom.
3. Wholeness includes long term perspectives and realities. Although
immediate problems, realities and outcomes may be important, they are not
the whole story,
4. Taking wholeness seriously means looking beyond narrow self-interest to
"the common good" -- and even pursuing self-interest through pursuit of the
common good.
5. Concern for wholeness requires moving beyond shallow appearances and
symptoms. It requires moving into fuller meanings, deeper causes, greater
complexity, subtlety and ambiguity.
6. The wholeness of things of course includes their parts. But when we're
considering living beings and living systems we must also address their
overall health, responsiveness, development, special gifts, etc. -- their
unique aliveness -- and also their context and history. We must especially
transcend our focus on their utility to us.
7. Wholeness almost always involves the healthy mutuality (synergy) of
relationships, a dimension of life that can be neglected by an exclusive
focus on the entities involved in those relationships. Whole-system
dynamics and structures are often the dynamics and structures of
relationships that characterize the whole.
8. To attempt to understand the whole means to humbly recognize the fact
that "there's always more to it; to appreciate the limits and evolution of
knowledge and certainty.
9. Wholeness often refers to the unity of spirit -- and commonality of
story -- that underlie the details of life. Unity and commonality are often
overlooked when we focus too much on differences and separateness (although
these, too, are part of wholeness!).

"Wholeness" is the concept that best embraces "new paradigm" efforts to
create a more just, sustainable and wise society. As the essays on this
webpage make abundantly clear, wholeness is far more than unity.

Co-intelligence is intelligence that arises out of wholeness and takes
wholeness seriously. Co-intelligence can be considered the cognitive and
responsive dimension of wholeness.

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*A CATALOGUE OF WHOLENESS-RELATED FACTORS AND PHENOMENA
<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1390586068-8975519850d7ab643be62f4d5d274d33-ce6c217?pa=19987789833>*

*IDENTITY*
Diversity
Differentiation
Discernment
Individuality / Uniqueness
Form
Name
Soverignty / Rights
Self-realization

*INCLUSION*
Openness
Both / And
Stakeholders
Welcoming / Embracing / Invitation /
Tolerance / Acceptance
Curiosity / Sensing-into
Listening/ hearing
Presence (1) (showing up; being included)
Respect / Valuing
Trust
Belonging / membership
Include and transcend

*INTERCONNECTEDNESS*
Relationship / Kinship
Stardust (the common source of all material reality)
Intercentricity
Networks
Pattern
Bioregionalism
Understanding
Organization
Value
Ethics / Morallity
Fairness / Equity / Peerness
Interdisciplinary
Communication

*INTERACTIVITY*
Mutuality / Reciprocity
Interdependence
Cycles
Power
Feedback / Cybernetics
Dissonance
Complexity / Chaos / Multiple causation
Interbeing / Co-incarnation / Yin-yang
Cooperation / Power-with / Teamwork / Collaborative intelligence
Co-creativity
Community
Co-evolution / Dialectic
Conversation / Dialogue
Resonance
Exchange
Economics
Ecology

*PARTICIPATION*
Engagement
Fit / Harmony
Intelligence
Action / Agency / Leadership
Role / Function
Purpose / Intention
Choice
Democracy
Creativity
Power
Surrender / Prayer / Letting Go
Needs
Responsibility

*CONTEXT*
Environment / Climate
Habitat
Field (Morphogenic, Story)
Commons / Common ground
Reality / Conditions
Freedom
History
Relevance / Relevation (quantum term meaning to elevate from the implicate
order into explicate "reality" because of relevance to what is already
going on)
Challenge
Nurturance
Generativity
Culture
Assumptions
Governanance

*INTEGRATION*
System
Coherence
Consensus / Confluence / Voice of the Whole
Grace
Completion
Whole-person
Self-organization
Meaning
Healing / Reconciliation
Subsidiarity (functions carried out by the most local competent authority)
Character

*STATES OF WHOLENESS*
Beauty
Holiness
Health / Resilience
Vitality / Aliveness / Exuberance
Balance
Elegance (right simplicity)
Sustainability
Implicit Wholeness (things are whole exactly as they are; everything fits)
Explicit Wholeness (achieved through fixing, healing, engagement,
transcendence, etc.)
Actualization
Integrity / Truth
Flow
Nature / the Tao

*EVOLUTION*
Emergence / Manifestation
Process
Iteration
Co-intelligence
(History)
Deep time (from the Big Bang into the distant future)
Possibility / Vision
Change
Birth
Growth
Development
Death
Transformation
Transcendence
(Include and transcend)(a dynamic of a healthy developmental process)

*INTERIORITY*
Spirit
Emptiness
Consciousness
Intersubjectivity (the "reality"-generating dynamic of many interacting
"separate" consciousnesses)
Presence (2) (aura; strength of personality) / Centeredness
Viewpoint
Psychology
Power-from-within
Calling

*ONENESS*
Unity
Non-locality / Synchronicity
Eternal now
Non-duallity
Communion / Love
Supreme Being
Quantum reality
Mysticism / "the Perennial Philosophy" (Aldous Huxley's name for the
mystical traditions of all major religions)

*WHOLE-IN-PART*
Fractals (patterns reappear at different levels of observation, such as
branches of branches)
Holonics (every part is a whole; every whole is a part)
Holographics (each part contains the whole, or a part that contains the
qualities or patterns of the whole)
Holergy (a part is greater than its role in any whole)
Membergy (the power possessed by a part due to its membership in a
particular whole)
(Yin-Yang)
Microcosm / Sample

*HOLISTIC KNOWING*
(Knowledge based on any of the preceding items)
Uncertainty / Ambiguity / Mystery
Paradox
Humility / More-to-it-than-that
Intuition
Comprehension / Depth / Insight
Myth / Symbol
Story
Vision
Imagination
Integral models
Wisdom / Perspective / Big Picture
Multiple Intelligences
Collective Intelligence
Universal Intelligence
Map / Model / Chart
Holistic Design / Permaculture / Pattern languages
Biomimicry
Spectra / Bell Curves
Nuance
Humor
Compassion
Silence / Spaciousness / Meditation

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*DIMENSIONS OF WHOLENESS MODEL
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This model linked here - a portion of which is represented by the graphic
at the top of this mailing - includes many of the factors in the catalogue
above in a coherent whole. If this topic interests you, I would encourage
you to explore it and comment on it on the blog
page<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1390586069-98876523c5f2d3282b77c5cce9ee3b65-ce6c217?pa=19987789833>
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