Chris,
"Wholistic" is the most complete thought in
the current mind of a person. It can also relate to the body as
in "wholistic health" while "holistic" comes from the
same idea as "holy" or Heilige which reaches out into everything the Universe
can and cannot be. Remember the Heilige Kunst of Geothe and
Schubert? The Karl Barth paradox about the Sacred having to transcend
being even into non-being in order to be captured in the word
"Holy."
So Wholistic is everything we know as being the
whole while the Spiritual or Holy which includes everything that is,
beyond and the ground of reaching out into the mystery that
we don't know and even ultimately never know.
Art is concerned with exploration and expression of
the values of the "wholistic" but ultimately must become "holistic"
in order to imagine "Beauty." "Beauty" is not just
an expression of excellence but of the ideal beyond exceptional as
well. We use the terms "Truth" and "Beauty" as ways of say
"wholistic" and "holistic."
But usually we just say it is "True" as an
expression, search or that it "mirrors" the psycho-physical
reality of the present values we are exploring. When
we say that it is "Beautiful" we mean that it holistically reaches
out into the Universe beyond itself to expand human expression and understanding
of our time, our place and our possibilities. It seems that
the most important Art would always be the current but that is to miss the
function of Art in society. New Art gives identity and
imagination while old Art gives joy and appreciation for our culture and
traditions.
That is why old Art or Traditional Art is so
important. Each piece is a "time capsul" where you can
literally experience both the "Truth" or "wholism" of the day and the
"connection" forward in time, to the present or the transcendant Ideal
that predicted our coming. As a result we experience our
humanity and are moved by the humanity, maturity and wisdom of even our most
primevil of the Ancestors.
We might remember also that the word for such
a person is selige (blessed) or the equvelent ancient English word
"silly" as in "Only the Sacred Clown can truly express the absurdities of Beauty
and the Holy."
Which brings us back to "How do you get paid for
knowing how to do such a thing in this society?" The
answer: "That silly starving artist is doing it for his
future!" That's why they never
understand how we could burn our art on our death unless it is paid
for. They thought they could get it for nothing.
Ray Evans Harrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Reuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:37 AM
Subject: [Futurework] holistic? (was Re: Chess)
> REH wrote:
> > Art, serious Art that is, is a psycho-physical pursuit of values in a
> > medium with no holds barred. It is holistic and unlimited.
> ==^^^^^^^
> Can anyone explain to this non-native speaker of English why that word
> is "holistic" and not "wholistic" ? I thought it came from "the whole",
> precisely NOT from "the hole", since the wholistic view includes it all,
> without any hole...
>
> (Bad tongues say that "holistic healers" (sans w) refers to the _hole_ in
> the customer's wallet that they make, or to the _holes_ (or hollowness)
in
> the theory of some practitioners...)
>
> Chris
>
>
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