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  1. Feb 2023
    1. “...the universe is individuating (in and through each of us) as the individual is universalising.”
      • Jan Smuts quote
        • the universe is individuating (in and through each of us)
        • as the individual is universalising.”
          • from his book "Holism and Evolution
    2. Holism’s father, Jan Christian Smuts, named that process of inner discovery, 'developing inwardness’.
      • definition : developing inwardness
        • the process of inner discovery
          • a deepening encounter and embrace of the complex, living "here and now"
          • gradual alignment with the on-going evolutionary process
        • defined by Jan Smuts
    1. Einstein declared after he studied ‘ Holism and Evolution ’ that two mental constructs would direct human thinking in the next millennium* his own theory of relativity and Smuts> of ‘ holism ’ .
      • Einstein studied Jan Smuts book, "Holism and Evolution"
      • Einstein declared that two constructs would direct human thinking in the next millenium, relativity and Smuts' "holism"
    2. keynote address in !" at the #entenary $eeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. %n this occasion he suggested that the fundamentalstructure of the universe was not matter but action
      • action, not matter, is the fundamental structure of the universe
    3. Holism and Evolution by Jan Christian Smuts – a re- evaluation after 90 years

      = title = Holism and Evolution

  2. Jan 2023