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Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:16
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] holistic? (was
Re: Chess)
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" <
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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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