Dormant rainbow spirits are awakening; they cannot be forever suppressed. We are doing our best to keep the old systems working and the ‘new’ at bay. We have been taught to fear change, and react with terror at the mere thought of chaos. What if everything we have been taught about ourselves is wrong? What…

What is holism and why is it so important? ‘Holism’ is a philosophy as described by Aristotle – “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” The term was first used by the Jan Smuts in his 1926 book, Holism and Evolution. Smuts defined ‘holism’ as “The tendency in nature to form wholes that…

The mistake of Western “scientific” thinking is that there is a singular truth – a singular answer that can be broken down into composite parts. The building blocks of Western civilisation have been ‘reductionist’ thought-forms in their observance and attitude. ‘Reductionism’ is a practice of describing complex phenomena by reduction to their fundamental parts. As…

The United States has the highest numbers of people (per capita) in prison in the world! It has nearly 5 percent of the world’s population yet currently imprisons nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.  1 in every 31 adults in the USA (7.3 million) is behind bars, or on probation or parole (2009). 743 adults per 100,000…

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