Comprehensive Holistics strives to merge diverse conceptual ideologies within science and theology, and ultimately combine these two major fundamental constructs of individual and collective worldviews into a unified structure. The ultimate goal is establishing an inclusive, rather than an exclusive, collective worldview. To achieve this goal certain elements of human individuality, concerning our capacity to rationalize our egocentric tendencies, must be understood as an impediment to achieving a progressive growth towards enlightenment. As the collective human mind develops and expands its knowledge of who and what we are, and how we perceive and understand our individual and collective 'selves', we must continually shed and re-define our accepted theories, definitions, and conclusions as we advance technologically and spiritually. As we progress in our understanding of who and what we are (our science), and our place in the 'grand scheme of things' (our theology) we must embrace a more flexible and less rigid reason, as we strive to build and share our collective worldview.
Throughout the ages, at certain critical moments, our collective consensus of 'truth' and 'fact' have been redefined by 'quantum' leaps in our understanding of our collective worldview. At each of these moments in history, individually and socially, the definition of our collective worldview expands to redefine what was previously understood and accepted as truth and fact. Simultaneously, this 'expansion' creates a new horizon of questions and possibilities that will, in future critical moments, become the new, more enlightened ideology as we collectively evolve, both scientifically and theologically, individually and socially. These critical moments are always met with obstacles borne out rigidity, politics egocentrism and defiance. Our collective comfort in believing that our current worldview is complete in its totality of our understanding and beliefs is disputed. In this way the folly of our human intellect exposes its intransigence as new paradigms in science and belief are presented and challenged.
In the realm of science, from a historical perspective, a newly proven theoretical framework of our collective worldview creates new divergent theories as each new paradigm of understanding is presented and ultimately accepted. In science this divergence manifests itself by yielding new competing theories based on projecting how the resulting 'critical leap of understanding' will manifest itself. This is not necessarily an impediment since it establishes the direction of the future understanding of the newly accepted worldview. This propels scientific theory towards its next 'quantum' leap of knowledge. The consistent repetition of intransigence and possessiveness that is exhibited when new theories are proven, with each leap of knowledge, is an impediment exhibited by those who have embraced and owned (egocentrism) the formerly accepted framework of understanding. Egocentrism, politics (divide and conquer) and defiance become tools that reveal the mechanisms of scientific and theological recidivism.
Unlike science (which uses the language of mathematics), theology exhibits its 'egocentrism' slightly differently, and, in some instances, leads to violence. The presence of parasitic political entities that use religion as a tool for territorial dominance and authoritarian power, as well as population and mind control, act to limit the expansion of the boundaries of our collective worldview and successfully stagnate theological advancement. From a historical perspective, due to the divergence of and lack of a worldwide universal theological consensus, cultural religious development has caused the propagation of seemingly diverse theological ideologies throughout the world, as is exhibited by the current plethora of religious beliefs. Further exacerbating the derision of religious ideologies is the fracturing of major religions into factions that compete for dominance (exhibited by the political technique of 'divide and conquer').
Throughout history, in the same way that giant leaps of knowledge in scientific enlightenment (Galileo, Einstein) are presented, theological 'prophets' and 'awakened' teachers have surfaced after having achieved an advanced level of enlightenment. These teachers attempt to guide their 'flocks' towards a more enlightened and civilized collective culturalal behavior. History reveals that these 'prophets' spread their message, develop a following, and then leave their acolytes by ascending to a higher theological plane of existence and passing on from their Earthly shell. Once their teachings have been presented and disseminated, factions develop that interpret the teachings of their particular holy guide in competing ways. This fractionalizes the foundational structure of the intent of each prophetic teacher and ultimately leads to friction and division. Authoritarian political entities utilize this fractionalization to manage the populations under their control and subvert the message of the enlightened teachers. Factions emerge, and the battle for dominance over the followers of a particular faith separate, each attempting to define the interpretation of the 'prophet's' lessons. In some instances, one group will assert authority over the newly presented religious ideology by claiming a hereditary lineage of the 'prophet' while another group will claim the right of interpretation based on the apostolic followers who pass their knowledge on to subsequent generations. Since a major function of politics within a culture is to promote division many of the mainstream religions that fractionalize into sects are subverted and are used as tools of psychological and physical violence against their opposing rivals by the political arms of each cultural sect.
There are exceptions to this seemingly consistent fractionalization of theological ideologies that do not yield to the manipulation of the enemies of enlightenment. It is this minority of theological groups who have embraced the very concept of holism and do not succumb to the political machinations of 'divide and conquer'. Together, these theological factions embrace a holistic understanding, creating a comprehensive holistic approach to the common teachings that emerge in diverse theological practices. In both the scientific and theological communities, an obstacle to a holistic and healthy practice of one's empirical and theological predilection is egocentrism. One of the more holistic enlightened practices in both Eastern and Western theology is the practice of diminishing ego and self-importance. Eastern theological practices that promote a holistic mindset include not judging others, ego reduction, forgiveness and tolerance. Western holistic theology promotes similar values. The Bible preaches that if one is to judge than one will be the victim of judgment, and as revealed in the Bible, Jesus taught forgiveness, and the tolerance of one's enemies. These spiritual axioms are accepted and taught across diverse cultural and theological factions in the East and the West.
Humanity is collectively in a struggle that encompasses selfishness versus selflessness, service-to-self versus service-to-others, and excessive materialism (the dominance of wealth by the few) versus a balance of necessary material values in moderation. Comprehensive Holistics accentuates the need for embracing similar values and theories from diverse sources and formulating a new paradigm that defines the major concepts in science and theology in a new and unified theo-philosophical ideology.
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