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My goal is to bring people to a higher sense of awareness, be it of themselves, of their environment and relationships, or of the world in general and how the universal laws apply to us. For this, I had begun to establish an information portal in which many of these concepts could be explained. This article is taken from my other website www.holonomics.info and provides a general outline of what is holonomics and how does it apply to our lives.

Holonomics is the science of integration. Derived from the Greek word holos (meaning global) and nomos (meaning natural laws), the term Holonomics refers to the investigation and the application of the principles that apply to integrated systems.

Holonomics researches the connective network that unifies all entities under a common model of interaction and exchange. It constitutes an empirical approach for the understanding of living systems their interaction with the environment and their continuation in life. The fundamental understanding of Holonomics asserts that everything exists in a context of inter-connection and meaning. It considers that for every existing system “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” meaning that the whole is comprised of a pattern of relationships that are not contained in the single parts but ultimately define them.

Living beings are the entities that interact the most in this model, although all living organisms can be defined as “open systems” or structures that exchange matter and energy with their environment. Their degree of stability and function is proportional to their capacity to exchange with the environment.

One of the most important laws of physics, the law of entropy, describes that everything is a system that tends towards energy exchange. If a system is isolated, no energy can be exchanged and the system initiates a slow process of disintegration. This principle also applies to human development and interactions. Friendship, love, ethical work relationships, and moral support are examples of energy that is exchanged to function as human beings.

The effects of Holonomics research are seen in a new paradigm gently emerging in the field of sciences for the last 20 years. This emerging field is vast and subtle, deep and all interconnecting. It is permeating all new schools of thought and it is transforming our general way of perceiving reality on a larger scale.

Contrary to what we have learned in other fields of science, the field of Holonomics studies you while you study it. This field of knowledge reacts to your thoughts and adjusts to your understanding. It is infused with a vivacious life principle and introduces our consciousness as part of the phenomena we observe. This is the very field of thought, unlike psychology where behaviour is observed, where the direct observation of thought is also observed.

Holonomics engages in the delineation of the functions of this field as an integrated entity of our lives.  The Holonomic brain theory, originated by Dr. Karl Pribram (pictured on the right) and initially developed in collaboration with the eminent physicist David Bohm, is a brain theory that hints on what thoughts might be.

The Holonomic brain theory indicates that the cognitive function is guided by a matrix of neurological "wave interference patterns" forming holographic Gestalt perceptions (like general impressions). Pribram was encouraged by the discovery in the late 80’s that information perceived through the sight is elaborated in a way that resembles a encoding apparatus. It receives a large quantity of impulses at the same time and makes of them a single understandable unit, like a holograph.

The Holonomic brain theory indicates that the cognitive function is guided by a matrix of neurological "wave interference patterns" forming holographic Gestalt perceptions (like general impressions). Pribram was encouraged by the discovery in the late 80’s that information perceived through the sight is elaborated in a way that resembles a encoding apparatus. It receives a large quantity of impulses at the same time and makes of them a single understandable unit, like a holograph.

The idea of holographic representation lead to the use of the term "Holonomic" to describe the idea in wider contexts than just holograms. It defines the basic rules of formation and decoding/encoding of holographic impulses. Hence, holonomy refers to the principle governing whole systems and it is used in Holonomics as a basic tool for the measurement of complex impulses.

Holonomics also relates to the concepts of Holography developed by Dennis Gabor (Nobel Prize in Physics, for his invention and development of the holographic method, here pictured on the left).The paradigm of information and symbol processing, which concerns the encoding, decoding and transmission of 3 dimensional information as analogue structured patterns of energy and signal processing theory, is approachable from a Holonomic connective and multi-factorial analysis. This validates the rules of nature’s language through a sequence of pattern recognition and pattern matching.

As an example of this we make a “car” of a conjoined apparatus that has tires, doors, windows, a steering wheel, an engine etc.  All the parts together form the gestalt or the compound we call “car.” At the same time, the process could be reversed and we could sum up internal perceptions received through our mind and reconstruct a gestalt made of the sum of all parts. This would constitute a purely intuitive way of thinking, a Holonomic thinking.

Holonomics therefore, presents itself in this century as the gateway to conceive the discrete and ordered  states of consciousness, traceable with Holonomic bio-communication techniques. Holonomy is holography specified in terms of the standard quantum mechanical formalism according to the transactional interpretation of Feynman & Wheeler.

Holonomics is a science of integration and as such, it builds on meanings and meaningful experiences. All ancient cultures with little or no exception, passed on, generation after generation, the concept that life is intrinsically meaningful and ordered. No matter how detached and pragmatic we might have become today, we cannot deny that our historical past is evidently made of philosophies that saw profound connections and significant evocative correspondences in every breath of life.

Our past is made of cultures that carried an extremely sacred content in their bosom: the doctrine of analogy.

Tales, stories, and legends were ways to express analogies of external events with internal states of being. Analogy was the structure of people’s minds. The wise researchers of the past called these analogies "sympathies." Instead of marking differences, they studied similarities and correspondences. They tried to find all interconnecting meanings instead of defining differences. They studied events and patterns, understanding life-giving and shape-creating intelligences behind material manifestations of life.

For instance, in their traditional medicines and natural sciences, they used analogies to describe correlations between parts of the body and times of the day or astronomical and climatic events.  They correlated seasons, geographic directions, forces, atmospheric events, foods, and emotions in classes of similitude. They extended this concept in practical life with the doctrine of signatures, noticing similarities between shapes of human organs and parts of plants or other medicinal derivatives.

They classified the events of life as a part of an integrated whole, a full continuum of meaningful occurrences in time. Take a look at the images on the left and think about the human body parts they resemble. Would you be surprised that they actually provide medical benefits to those parts?

Ancient thought has always attempted to harness the forces in nature, the forces the Greeks called Physis (from which the term Physics is derived), their sympathies or resonances, and antipathies or dissonances. According to Greek philosophy, the Physikoi were nature’s practitioners; they were students of nature’s powers or Dynamies. When humans perceived themselves within a connected meaningful universe, they were able to deal directly with their feelings and inner insights as tangible manifestations of life energy and they were commonly in touch with the archetypal forces that penetrated their existence.

These forces were the principles, orders or archetypes, all pervading and all influenng capable of formative and trans-formative powers. They were and they are speaking to us in their interface language.

Man has tried to interpret the language of nature and the symbols that it provided with different approaches and models. At the beginning of this millennium, we studied the laws that connect formative powers into whole systems. We hence denominated the structure that studies this language “HOLONOMICS"

Holonomics is the interconnecting science of the new millennium, the science that studies the governing rules of complex organisms like the eco-system, the human body, societies, and groups.

In fact, one of the basic reference points of Holonomics is Empiricism. Empiricism is the study of nature’s laws that can carry evidence without the imposition of a pre-existing restrictive protocol. It is therefore a valuable tool for a direct observation of events that happen in our lives at different magnitudes, from the extremely small to the astrophysically large.

By investigating Holonomics you will come face to face with a form of empiric knowledge that is born of the old, evolves through the present, and synthesizes evidence and life force. Today few glimpses of this insight have been perceived through concepts such as the well-known Jungian Synchronicity that has placidly replaced the idea of the “magical thought” of the ancient. With the coming of the modern discursive approach to phenomenology, this ancient perception has been partially buried. Nevertheless, a rich source of epistemological evidence is found in all traditional philosophies and their profound understanding of natural forces.

Only recently the magical view has been rediscovered synergistically with real moderate scientific consciousness by eclectic researchers interested in subatomic quantum events. The result of this synergistic effort is Holonomics.

As quantum physicists affirm, a different frame of mind is necessary to leap into the understanding of life force and consciousness. The empirical study of the subconscious mind seems to offer some interesting approach to do this. Subconscious processes and functions are part of a reality that need to be deeply studied because of their capacity to determine the physical condition and the mental orientation of any being endowed with DNA functioning.