Saturday, August 05, 2017

HOLONOMICS -- AN IMPORTANT AND GROWING SYNTHESIS OF NEW AGE THINKING AND PLANNING

Two weeks ago,  our local Oakland Press had an intriguing article about something called the "Pontiac Holonomy Incubator."  Its leaders would be holding the Open House at 3 pm, a rally in a small park across the street in downtown Pontiac, Michigan would take place at 4 pm.  I felt it urgent that I check it out, as it clearly resonated with many "think globally, act locally" schematas I had viewed in the past in the course of my research on the New Age Movement.

I quickly learned from internet research that this was one of many projects being inspired by a new book circulating in both business and academic circles entitled HOLONOMICS:  BUSINESS WHERE PEOPLE AND PLANET MATTER.  Authors Simon and Maria Morae Robinson certainly do not look like idealogues or schemers.   Instead, they come across as a fresh faced relatively nice young couple.  They are are presently important players in stirring the pot of a concept called “holism.”  It also goes by the name of “holonomy” and the term they say they “coined” of “holonomics.”  For sure, they are true and sincere believers in their cause.  Their cause beautifully and unfortunately illustrates what I call “the hidden dangers of the New Age rainbow.”

Simon and Maria Robinson are now Brazilian based educators.  They are teachers at a college level school in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  It is my impression that they are perhaps cradle New Age believers.   They are passionately trying to convert the world, particularly at the business level, to what they call “holonomics.”   It appears to be quite the New Age stew of "paradigm shift", "Systems Thinking" "earth reverence," "holistic thinking," "all is interconnected," GAIA theories; Buddhist management, Sai Baba, phenomenology, and self-organizing evolution theories mixed in with let's all love each other so we can grow together type exhortations.  



They also mix a great deal of current science research they believe supports their theories.  Their work is receiving glowing reviews from varied sources.

New Agers I discovered as relatively young radicals (e.g. Fritjof Capra) are now aging academics who represent settled wisdom and knowledge to these young authors.  I personally just finished reading the Kindle edition of their book.  I’ve ordered the paperback copy as I want a copy I can freely markup and annotate.    The hard copy book is taking its sweet time to reach me -- that is part of the delay on this article.  I just finished reading the Kindle version as I write tonight.  It is a sizable book with many twists and turns -- while well written, it is not easy reading.

Marilyn Ferguson (1938-2008) wrote in her 1980 New Age landmark book, THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY (page 280) that “You can only have a new society . . .  if you change the education of the younger generation.”[i]   While complaining that young people were “limited” because entrenched educators controlled the system.  To gain degrees and academic credentials necessary for advancement, one had to go along with the established educational bureaucracy.

On the same page, she also happily wrote about the large number of conversions in the academic world to New Age thinking.

It is now appearing that those carrying the same new thinking advocated by Marilyn Ferguson and her many associates, e.g. Willis Harman, Maurice Strong, Hazel Henderson, Fritjof Capra, and so many others have become the new established bureaucracy in education.     More often these days, students must regurgitate as 'gospel,' the theories of this indoctrinated group of new academics.

These developments also remind me of another book popular in New Age circles, PARADIGM WARS (1996) by Professor Mark B. Woodhouse.

The Robinsons are interviewed as a couple by California New Age activist Gunther Sonnefeld.  The online video is available for watching by CLICKING HERE .  Several other interviews are available there as well.

Early on in the video, the Robinsons say they “coined” the word holonomics, fashioning it from words dealing with both holonomy and economics.  

However, that word has long been used by others and given very similar meanings by others in New Age and neo-pagan circles.

In my personal library, which I am far from done surveying, I have found that term used in the same sense as that expressed by the Robinsons in several books among them being

  • Barbara Clow in her 1994 book CHIRON purporting to be channeled writing concerning "Rainbow Bridge" between inner and outer planets.  Barbara Clow was and is a close Matthew Fox associate (the Catholic cum Episcopalian priest/'theologian);
  • Bob Samples in his 1981 book MIND OF OUR MOTHER.  This is one of the earlier books in my library; 
  • Globally & Locally, Seeking a Middle Path to Sustainable Development (1998)
  • Jose Arguelles (2011), MANIFESTO FOR THE NOOSPHERE."
I'm just starting on this topic.  To be continued.

Stay tuned,
CONSTANCE





[i] Ferguson, Marilyn.  THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY, page 280.

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paul said...

The '60's was an example of decadence, and hardly a revolution unless you consider hedonistic
wild abandon to be a revolution: the beginning of the end of marriage and the nuclear family, the
end of basic morality; sexual promiscuity and it's explosion of sexually transmitted diseases; the
end of patriotism, the end of well proven, effective teaching methods and America's very high
ranking in terms of education, to be replaced with "New" math and the beginning of the rewriting
of history in order to systematically misinform all the young people. The deliberate "dumbing down"
of not only America, but of pretty much the whole world was no accident. It was and is a well
conceived Communist plot written largely by a Communist named Turchenko, with all the support
and blessings that the United Nations could possibly bestow.
It's current name of Common Cause is only the latest name. Every time parents and educators realized
how ridiculous these changes were, and they complained enough, the programs would simply pretend
to disappear and then just resurface with a new name. (See: Robin Eubanks' "Credentialed To Destroy
_How and Why Education Became a Weapon".)
Or you could look up Charlotte Iserbyt, who coined the term "Dumbed Down". She had been the
Secretary of Education in the Nixon administration and what she saw happening to U.S. education
alarmed her so much that she has since then spent her energies attempting to warn the public about
these things.

Dollheimer, your hippie revolution was a miserable failure back then and you want to dig it back up?
There was nothing truly spiritual about the hippie culture, other than LSD, cocaine, and tons of marijuana.
The hippies were well represented at Woodstock as stinky hedonists rolling in mud like pigs,
who only promoted "sexual freedom" in order to get all the free sex that they could as often
as they could. These are your role models Tommy.
Socialism has never made life better in any country, and you want to promote it! LOL. In what country
is Socialism working right now? In what country is Socialism's big brother Communism working?
Where Tommy?
You're a fool and a dupe of the NWO.

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Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer said...

Article: Pope Francis On Climate Change Denial: 'Man Is Stupid'

WASHINGTON — Climate change denials amid catastrophic hurricanes are a reminder that humans are not a particularly smart species, Pope Francis said Sunday while flying over areas in the Caribbean decimated by Hurricane Irma.

“Man is stupid,” he said, referencing a passage in the Old Testament, according to the The New York Times and The Associated Press. “When you don’t want to see, you don’t see.”

[The vast majority of climate change deniers are Christians.]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-climate-change-denial-223108285.html

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer said...

Quote from article located at http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/politics/kfile-roy-moore-kevin-swanson/

[Bible hate speech] "Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, at the time a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, appeared at the Freedom 2015 National Religious Liberties Conference and was introduced by [pastor Kevin] Swanson. At that event, Swanson said in a speech that, "In fact in Romans 1 Paul affirms that this particular sin (homosexuality) is worthy of death. The Old and New Testament, I believe both speak with authority and we outta receive it."

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Craig said...

Thomas Dahlheimer,

Let me fix that for you:

"Man is stupid. When you want to see, you see."

ACTUAL SCIENTIST: "2017 Hurricanes Aren't Because of Climate Change"

We sat down with Dr. Roy Spencer, an actual climatologist and former NASA scientist (who's rebuttal to Al Gore's latest film overshadowed the actual film) to discuss the possible correlations between 2017's "unprecedented" hurricane season and climate change.

Anonymous said...


Gatekeeper of DC Society Sally Quinn Comes Out As Occultist, Used Hex to Kill People


http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/09/12/gatekeeper-of-dc-society-sally-quinn-comes-out-as-occultist-used-hex-to-kill-people/

The article brings up Spirit cooking and the Podesta brothers.

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Constance Cumbey said...

Thomas Dahlheimer:

Caryl Matrisciana was a dear personal friend of mine. She died of cancer earlier this year. Let's not misconstrue her "WIDE IS THE GATE" as an affirmation of the credibility of the New Age Movement. She and I viewed that Movement in very similar ways. Her WIDE IS THE GATE refers to Jesus' warning "enter ye in at the strait (straight) gate -- wide is the gate THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION." We both recognized, contrary to much disinformation that went forth particularly in the Evangelical word that the New Age Movement is huge and powerful. We both recognized the ramifications of their beliefs. In so many ways you are an unfortunate EXHIBIT A of all we studied and of which we tried to warn.

Constance

Constance

Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer said...

Dear Constance Cumbey I have not misconstrued Caryl Matriscana's "WIDE IS THE GATE" as an affirmation of the "credibility" of the New Age Movement. Her "WIDE IS THE GATE" reveals how huge the New Age Movement is. In a way, leading Christian opponents of the New Age movement are leading promoters of the New Age.

Paramahansa_Yogananda (1893–1952) was a Hindu who is considered one of the preeminent spiritual figures of modern times. He wrote: "The word 'God' means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit existed before God . God [known as Brahma in the Hindu scriptures] is the Creator of the universe, but Spirit is the Creator of God."

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Mother of the New Age movement, wrote:
In the Mandukya Upanishad [, an ancient Sanskrit Vedic Hindu text] it is written, "As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground . . . so is the Universe derived from the undecaying one," Brahma, for the "Germ of unknown Darkness", is the material from which all evolves and develops, "as the web from the spider, as foam from the water," etc. This is only graphic and true, if the term Brahma, the "Creator", is derived from the root brih, to increase or expand. Brahma "expands", and becomes the Universe woven out of his own substance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_becomes_the_Universe#Comparison_to_Eastern_philosophy

Brahma is the Creator of the universe and is the Universe. Hindus and New Agers to not worship the Universe/Brahma, they, myself included, worship the Spirit.

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