Wholism and the New Age

of the cooperative, feminine principle.

Certainly cooperation is a facet of wholism — the parts of a whole cooperating or working together, rather than fighting or abrading against each other. But striving for wholeness in society or the world ultimately begins on the personal level. A whole entity cannot be working together smoothly and “wholesomely” if the individual component parts are not smooth, whole-functioning microcosms of the whole.

Charity Begins at Home; Wholeness Begins in the Self

Perhaps healing our pain, working on our issues, shining a light on our less-illumined areas, accepting ourselves, striving to be whole within ourselves, developing our potential, having an open, curious outlook, and changing our thinking — all of this together is the first step. It is no coincidence at all that there has been an intense flurry of activity in the past several years as more and more people have been “working on their issues.” This is definitely happening for a reason, for we can’t bypass the personal work to leap into the divine. Ofttimes an intense desire to immerse oneself in the New Age movement without having done one’s personal work may represent an unconscious desire to escape from pain — a denial of one’s reality and diversion of attention from one’s problems. (Denial is not just a river in Africa!) If we are here for a purpose, then part of the purpose may be to fully experience life and learn and grow — here and now.

I often hear some people refer to themselves as “lightworkers,” who are on a mission to save people. That we are now in the throes of a struggle between light and dark. That people are being forced to choose between “life” and “death.”

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