Take any cell in the human body. It is truly amazing that it is a complete organism by itself when observed individually. The human body is composed of a few multiples of ten thousand billion cells. Its again amazing to observe that these cells group into tissues that function together for a purpose. And just as amazing to observe tissues group into whole organs to perform a particular function for the whole body. And similarly amazing to observe different organs interacting with each other to form systems, like digestive, nervous, lymphatic, reproductive, immune etc., that perform a vital function. All these systems are interrelated, interdependent and interact harmoniously to form a composite whole. Any dissonance in an individual system would make the ‘whole’ to react and re-organize itself back to harmony. Even a simple epithelial cell can be viewed as independent and as if the most important entity for the whole but the fact is that this one cell is just but one cog or wheel in the bigger machine, the whole.
Now, can we map one of us as one cell in a bigger entity?
Let us take our planet Earth. Observe it wholisticaly and we can see it is an organism too. Mother Earth is but a group of interacting, interrelated and interdependent elements (land, water, air, heat; flora, fauna; climate) forming a very complex whole. We need her and she needs us. And, just as in our body, mother earth reorganizes occasionally into balance by belching lava, climate changes, new viruses, platonic shifts, atmospheric holes etc. Stability will finally prevail and she’s a composite whole again.
Need I illustrate again the same considering the absolute whole i.e. the Universe? Is it not obvious now that microcosmically or macrocosmically there is no end to complexity and amazement?
Everything: every being, every system, every process, every group, every star is part of a larger organism. So what seems disorder and chaos to us maynot be at all. It is just that our heads are too small to understand it.
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