Always thought it would be incredible to look at the Earth from space... dominated by man and his petty destructive forces on the surface, yet quietly going round the sun in the big wide universe covered in green and blue and white.
Makes you think doesn't it...
When I was a kid they had this thing on the telly which filled in between the scheduled progs.
It started within the cell of - I can't quite remember - was it a dog??
Anyway, then it pulled out via the dog itself, to the street it was on, the town, the country the globe out into the universe etc etc.
You get the picture, I loved it.
That and growing up in an 'earth sciences' household, and a few other important influences pushed me towards that whole
"Tiny things make up the bigger things , but all the 'things' are interconnected" mindset.
So small wonder really that both my professions encompass holism.
As I said above, all that can get a bit overwhelming in a world that insists on over compartmentalizing things, and seems to worship destructive forces, and mindless materialism .
Where for instance, the life of the mind is considered separately from the realities of the body.
Even Western medicine is now acknowledging that they are rather more interconnected.
I think that's why the 'integrated' eastern philosophies , and practices resonate, and make far more sense to me.
