Yougene's "Russian Dolls" comment to MyDoor; Great, EXCEPT that it cuts both ways. Each of those dolls are seperate entities and when one examines such things they regard EACH separate entity in its own regard.
All you are doing now is acknowledging the worthiness of the Holistic approach.
I never disregarded the holistic approach.
My points were
1)These ideas of holism were already floating around in science long before Gaia theory.
2)Gaia pertains to holism on a specific level of complexity.
3)New age adoptions of Gaia are a perversion of holistic scientific thinking because they don't acknowledge levels of complexity.
Jewish Mysticism is very much in synch with the main idea within Gaia
Only on a surface level. It's more consistent with proper General Systems Theory.
that all these seemingly disparate strands combine in a singular entiy. Each strand is equally important with regard to the integrity of the whole.
That is too broad of a generalization. Entities are intertwined at any level, so for example Gevurah and Chesed are intertwined as masculine/feminine counterparts. But they are emmanations from the sephirots above them which are more inclusive/complex. This isn't splitting hairs, without some idea of levels there is no concept of emmanation.
The more accurate analogy would be making successively larger ropes which are themselves made out of successively smaller ropes.
Compromise 1and you compromise all.
Not quite, in the context of Jewish Mysticism you can compromise the lower levels without compromising the upper levels.
So the existence of the material world necessitates the existence of the spirit world but not vice-versa.
In systems theory you have the same ordering but the dependency is flipped upside down. So the existence of the biosphere necessitates the existence of the physiosphere, but not vice-versa.
