In quantum physics, relational holism refers to the process in which whole systems are created by the relationships among subatomic particles (Wheatley, 2006). The parts are drawn together by a process of internal connectedness; so they don’t remain as parts. As electrons cross paths with one another their own individual qualities become indistinguishable. As Zohar (1990) stated:
“The whole will possess a definite mass, spin and so on, but it is indeterminate which electrons are contributing what to this. As the constituent electrons’ properties continually change it is no longer meaningful to talk of their individual properties.”
In light of this information, it is not difficult to recognize ourselves as electrons moving, merging with others, forming new wholes, being forever changed in the process. We all have experienced things “coming together” or been in collective efforts that far exceeded what we could do alone. Yet, we rarely understood that we were participants in a universe that thrives on open information and that works with us to self-organize into systems of increased capacity.
Chopra states: “Information has a longer life span that the solid matter it is matched with…after all, a cell is a memory that has built some matter around itself, forming a specific pattern. Your body is just the place your memory calls home.”So, information is essential to vitality. It is necessary for new order, an order that we don’t impose, but order nonetheless. So, we must abandon our dark cloaks of control and trust in its need for free movement. All of life uses information in this way.
We have to be more open to meet the unending pressures for change; yet the concept of fluid and permeable boundaries sparked mostly fear (Wheatley, 2006). If we understand the deep support we have from natural processes it will help reduce some of this fear. It is not that we are moving toward disorder when we dissolve existing structures and speak of fluid boundaries. Rather, we are engaging in a fundamentally new relationship with order, order that is identified in processes that manifest themselves only as temporary structures (Wheatley, 2006). Order itself is a dynamic organizing energy rather than being located in a specific structure (Wheatley, 2006). Nourished by information, this organizing energy becomes the living universe. The gift is growth into new forms whereas life goes on richer and more creative than before.
