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Three years later, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality was the result. During that period I lived the hermit’s life; I saw exactly four people in three years (Roger Walsh, who is an M.D., stopped by once a year to make sure I was alive); it was very much a typical three-year silent retreat (this period is described in One Taste, June 12 entry). I was locked into this thing, and it would not let go.

You can even see this directly with a microscope. That hierarchy is one of actual embrace: cells literally embrace or enfold molecules.

G. Spencer Brown, in his remarkable book Laws of Form, said that new knowledge comes when you simply bear in mind what you need to know. Keep holding the problem in mind, and it will yield. The history of human beings is certainly testament to that fact. An individual runs into a problem and simply obsesses about that problem until he or she solves it. And the funny thing is: the problem is always solved. Sooner or later, it yields. It might take a week, a month, a year, a decade, a century, or a millennium, but the Kosmos is such that solutions are always forthcoming. For a million years, people looked at the moon and wanted to walk on it. .

The Kosmos is a series of nests within nests within nests indefinitely, expressing greater and greater holistic embrace—holarchies of holons everywhere!—which is why everybody had their own value holarchy, and why, in the end, all of these holarchies intermesh and fit perfectly with all the others.

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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 4 passages above capture the essential teachings.

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