Wholism and the New Age

thinking, rather than deal with totalities and nuances — the polar opposites, rather than mixtures or shades of gray.

All of these engrained habits of thinking have been salient characteristics of the Piscean Age, and we have all been under their spell.

So, how do we move toward wholeness, given all the influences on us to the contrary?

The Personal Level

Let’s take a look first at wholeness as applied to the individual or personal level. I would think that, to be whole, we must first accept ourselves as a whole. Rather than split off parts of ourselves as undesirable and disowning them, we can accept that everything exists for a purpose. To believe otherwise is to reject creation and second guess the Creator.

Therefore, we can first accept all our faculties: left brain and right brain; logic, feeling, and intuition. How many times have we heard someone say, “I don’t think; I feel?” Why not think and feel. Instead of labeling one as “bad” and the other as “good,” why not consider that both serve a purpose? Why thinks in terms of “ors” that separate, instead of “ands” that unite? If any of these faculties did not serve a purpose, why were they created? There are times when I don’t know where my thinking or ideas come from: from my logic or intuition or feeling. It feels, instead, as if the parts are working together as a whole — which is a nice feeling, a feeling of wholeness. We can become more whole by reclaiming all parts of ourselves.

Emotions

Emotions get a lot of bad press. We tend to reject emotions as undesirable qualities, especially “negative” emotions like pain or anger. We suppress our emotions;

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