The Wholeness Comprehension
– A Powerful Holistic Perspective for a Better Life

The Wholeness Comprehension is a “consciousness thing”, something that takes place in our consciousness. More precisely formulated, we can see the Wholeness Comprehension as a kind of lens through which we see and understand ourselves, others, the world – and in general, everything. The Wholeness Comprehension is thus a filter of understanding and interpretation that we can choose to have in our consciousness.

We all have lenses, filters, and theories in our consciousness through which our impressions and stimuli must ‘pass’ before they become experiences. And depending on the ‘taste’ and ‘color’ of our lenses, filters, and theories, our experiences, very simplistically speaking, will be either pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant. Therefore, any filter – including the Wholeness Comprehension – will have a huge impact on pretty much everything in our lives.

The Wholeness Comprehension functions as a kind of holistic worldview, a holistic philosophy of life, and is of particular value because it can help us create a good life. We can use the Wholeness Comprehension to give ourselves a higher quality of life. And this applies to both our inner life (thoughts, feelings, states of being, etc.) and our outer life (home, relationships, work, etc.).

However, we can also use the Wholeness Comprehension as a kind of holistic approach to become more conscious and understand more about ourselves, others, life, the universe and everything. The Wholeness Comprehension can help us realize how things relate to each other and make life make sense. The Wholeness Comprehension gives us, among other things, a more holistic approach to ourselves and life, which always, in itself, leads to a better life experience.

The Wholeness Comprehension Describes Reality More Precisely than What Most of Us Are Used to
– Greater Precision = A Better Life

The logic behind why a holistic thought pattern, a holistic mindset / worldview – and more specifically, the Wholeness Comprehension – leads to a better life is very simple: It is a more precise description of reality on a larger scale.

As a result of the way science has developed over the past centuries and other cultural reasons, we have turned some very basic things upside down in our understanding of ourselves, life, the universe and everything. This means, so to speak: Our data foundation is wrong.

When we then make decisions based on the wrong foundation, these decisions naturally turn out to be bad, and the results we get will be poor. For example, we might believe that wealth, power, status, fame, popularity, expensive physical things, or a particular physical appearance will make us happy, but … this is not how reality works. The pursuit of these things is based on misunderstandings that come from a wrong data foundation.

Similarly, the same defective data foundation can make us feel lonely, anxious, powerless, depressed, and many other unpleasant things. When the World Health Organization (WHO) points out that cases of anxiety and depression are exploding worldwide in recent years, it is fundamentally for the same reason: Our data foundation is wrong, so we believe in things that are incorrect, and it ruins our emotional and mental health (and in the long run, also our physical health). We end up with a life that is a lot worse than it needs to be.

If we want a good life, we have to base our beliefs, choices, decisions, and actions on a data foundation that is more precise and correct than what most of us use today.

In short: We need to understand how things ACTUALLY are.

And things are not as we have been taught by our parents or in school. We ourselves, life, the universe and everything, along with the way various things relate to each other, are NOT as our culture has taught us.

This is why the Wholeness Comprehension is so useful: It is more precise. More correct. It is a better description of reality. Therefore, it is better as a data foundation, and it gives us better results.

The Wholeness Comprehension Turns Things Upside Down and Can Result in a Consciousness Revolution

The challenge with the Wholeness Comprehension is, of course, that it turns many important things upside down compared to what we are used to. If we truly embrace the Wholeness Comprehension, it will in fact create a revolution in our consciousness, a consciousness revolution. But this is a good thing, as it will make it much easier to create a good life, both an inner life (thoughts, beliefs, feelings, states, etc.) and an outer life (practices, with home, relationships, work, leisure, etc.).

In other words: The Wholeness Comprehension is really worth getting to know. And even better to use. This article provides an introduction to what it’s all about.

Table of contents for this article:

– What Is the Wholeness Comprehension? – A Simple and Precise Holistic View on Everything that Allows for Living a Good Life in Practice
– What the Wholeness Comprehension Is NOT
– Two Important Differences Between “Ordinary Belief” and the Wholeness Comprehension
– What Does the Wholeness Comprehension Do? – The Wholeness Comprehension Bridges the Gap Between Higher Consciousness and Daily Life
– We All Already Have a (Hidden) Operating System in Our Consciousness – the Wholeness Comprehension Is Also an Operating System
– Okay … But What Is the Wholeness Comprehension Really About?
– How Can We Actually Understand the Wholeness Comprehension?

What Is the Wholeness Comprehension?
– A Simple and Precise Holistic View on Everything that Allows for Living a Good Life in Practice

As already mentioned and as the name suggests, the Wholeness Comprehension is an “understanding”. An understanding is something we can have in our consciousness. It could also be called a “pattern”, a “form”, a philosophy of life, a worldview, or a gestalt. So, the Wholeness Comprehension is a consciousness pattern.

Consciousness patterns (or understandings) can be both complicated and simple, as well as problematic and useful.

The Wholeness Comprehension is simple, unproblematic, and very useful.

What we can use the Wholeness Comprehension for in our consciousness is, of course, “wholeness” or, to use a Greek word that has become quite popular today, holism. Wholeness is worth understanding because it is the most basic and fundamental state of everything. In other words, the Wholeness Comprehension essentially creates ‘holism’ in our consciousness and gives us what could be called a ‘holistic view’ on pretty much everything.

The Wholeness Comprehension is based on and describes “that-which-is” – that is, reality and truth in a more basic, fundamental, and absolute sense. The Wholeness Comprehension is the understanding of ourselves, life, the universe, and everything through greater or “higher” consciousness.

But one of the things that makes the Wholeness Comprehension quite unique is that it also contains a very practical, concrete, and useful aspect: It can help us create a better inner and outer life.

One could also call the Wholeness Comprehension a broader, higher, deeper, and more precise perspective that can help us understand, navigate, and manage ourselves (as humans), the world, life, the universe and everything.

Now you might be thinking, how can anyone know what “that-which-is” is, and why should this understanding of reality be more correct, precise, and true than so many others? This is a really good question.

Our short answer is, no one can know anything about anything with 100 percent certainty. But we can have experiences and, based on them, make an educated gues, i.e., form a theory. And then, we can test the theory just like any other theory. The Wholeness Comprehension is based on our own experiences, and we have tested it in practice, so we believe it is a very good guess. Because it works. It works in terms of making sense and in terms of creating a good life.

What the Wholeness Comprehension Is NOT

The Wholeness Comprehension is not, in principle, a belief. Not a conviction. Not a religious thing. The Wholeness Comprehension does not, in itself, have anything to do with religion, philosophy, or politics.

If you want to get to know the Wholeness Comprehension, you should rather do the opposite of believing: you should identify – and then consciously let go of – various types of beliefs and convictions!

Why? Because beliefs and convictions limit our consciousness and make it smaller (they constrict our consciousness). Convictions and beliefs give us a “lower” consciousness. Since the Wholeness Comprehension is based on greater (“higher”) consciousness, the more you let go of beliefs and convictions, the more you will understand it.

In fact, we can get a very pleasant glimpse of that-which-is every time we let go of an important, deeply felt conviction, also called consciousness programming).

None of this is particularly mystical, because the Wholeness Comprehension is essentially just a way of bringing our consciousness closer to that-which-is, i.e., reality and truth in a more absolute sense – a reality and truth that we can all experience at any time, as long as we make our consciousness large enough.

But that being said, it is quite reasonable to call the Wholeness Comprehension a theory, and to test it in practice. We highly recommend that you do so!

Since it is a kind of theory, the Wholeness Comprehension CAN also be used as a sort of philosophy, belief, or conviction that you can “believe in”, but hopefully only as a transitional phase, until you experience that-which-is (truth and reality in a more absolute sense), and then you will KNOW to what extent the Wholeness Comprehension is accurate.

The key point here is that the Wholeness Comprehension is an attempt to formulate what is LEFT when we have let go of all philosophies, all politics, all beliefs, and all convictions, i.e., all manners of consciousness programming.

What is left is pure consciousness. And pure consciousness is – as we discover when we experience it – truth and reality in a more absolute sense.

This greater (“higher”) truth and reality is actually wordless. It is an insight you can get and have, but it is very, very difficult to put into words. The reason for this is simple: Words are relative, while the insight is not – it is absolute.

The Wholeness Comprehension Takes Point of Departure from That-Which-Is, but That-Which-Is Is Wordless!
– We Put the Wordless into Words so It Can Be Used in Our Daily Life

Relativity is ‘something in relation to something else, often the opposite’, and our language, which is largely about the physical world, is based on relativity. For example, there is “a small tree here” and “a large tree there”. We compare the two trees, both in terms of physical location and physical size. This is the kind of thing language is really good at.

‘Absolute’, on the other hand, means that there is no opposition and nothing to compare it to.
Cambridge Dictionary describes absolute as “unconditional; complete; perfect; without limitation;” and “not dependent on or considered in relation to something else. Independent of everything else; existing by itself” and “considered in itself, not in relation to other phenomena (of a similar nature).”

The meaning of this is clear enough, but what or how is something that is absolute? Language doesn’t provide an answer to that. We have a word for it, yes, but the phenomenon is difficult to understand and grasp in our consciousness because we are not used to it.

An analogy to describe what absolute means would be to ask: How big is the cosmos? (Cosmos here should be understood as both the physical universe and what we, at this moment in time, consider to be non-physical).

If we were to answer how big the cosmos is, we would run directly into the problem that we have nothing to compare it to. We cannot compare the cosmos with anything. In fact, we can’t even compare the physical universe with anything: We can just observe that the physical universe seems very, very large, and that the cosmos seems infinitely large.

Just as difficult as it is to put the size of the cosmos into words, it is equally difficult to put that-which-is (absolute truth and reality) into words. That-which-is exists, it is there, it is a real thing, in fact, the most real thing of all, but it cannot be described in words. Therefore:

Describing ‘that-which-is’ through the Wholeness Comprehension is to pretend that the more absolute is relative, which at best is imprecise and at worst is a lie and a misconception.

That being said, we have put the Wholeness Comprehension into words – this entire website puts different aspects of the Wholeness Comprehension into words. Which means that the Wholeness Comprehension is NOT perfect, simply because it IS put into words, and words are relative and imprecise.

By Putting the Wholeness Comprehension into Words, It Becomes more Relative – It Becomes a Type of Theory … a Kind of Perspective

In other words, the Wholeness Comprehension is exactly what its name says: an understanding, an insight, a gestalt, a pattern in consciousness, a theory, a perspective, a lens, and a way to use our consciousness. Nothing more, nothing less.

We CAN choose to “believe in” the Wholeness Comprehension, to make it a kind of conviction, and it may even be a useful thing to do for a period of time, until we experience that-which-is for ourselves, but it is extremely important to remember that the Wholeness Comprehension (just like convictions and all other beliefs) is simply a theory put into words, and not reality or truth. Like all other theories, we humans can choose to adjust and change the Wholeness Comprehension as we become wiser and better at putting it into words. The Wholeness Comprehension is a truly useful and practical thing, but it is not something we need to get too attached to.

Throughout the upcoming sections, it will sometimes most probably sound like we are trying to make people believe in something (which in a way is also true), for example, in things like these three:

– Knowing and using the Wholeness Comprehension is a good idea if you want to have a good life.
– Having a large (“high”) consciousness is more useful and pleasant than having a small (“low”) consciousness.
– Identifying and consciously letting go of your consciousness limitations (e.g. old traumas, shadow aspects, beliefs, and convictions) is a good idea and leads to a better life.

So, to be completely honest, direct, and ‘up-front’, we might just say that the Wholeness Comprehension is A LITTLE MORE TRUE and A LITTLE LESS A LIE than so many other things.

Note: In relation to everything above and what’s to come, we (Birgitte and Søren at goodconsciouslife.com) would like to point out that we have nothing against belief, politics, philosophy, or religion – and we don’t have anything against atheism either, which is also, in fact, a belief.

The only thing we point out is that any belief, any conviction, limits the consciousness of the person who holds it. Such a limitation of consciousness moves that person’s experience away from that-which-is. Which is unfortunate because that-which-is is wonderful to experience in itself and is also the perfect foundation for consciously designing a good inner and outer life.

Two Differences between “Ordinary Belief” and the Wholeness Comprehension

Yep, there ARE a couple of important differences between “ordinary belief” of various kinds and the Wholeness Comprehension:

1) In the Wholeness Comprehension, All Belief and All Convictions Are Just Theories

Yep, everything that is said can only be “best guess” about how things are. This also applies to the Wholeness Comprehension itself, as well as the few things that the Wholeness Comprehension suggests we can TRY OUT as convictions.

In other words: The Wholeness Comprehension encourages you to question it AND …

2) The Wholeness Comprehension Directly Encourages You to Try Everything out in Your Own Consciousness and Your Own Life

The Wholeness Comprehension is experience-based. It is based on our (Birgitte’s and Søren’s) concrete experiences, and one of those experiences is that people best understand the Wholeness Comprehension and get the most benefit from it when they have tested it in all the areas of their consciousness and their life that they can think of and feel like trying – and then decide whether it works or not.

Because it’s really simple: Either the Wholeness Comprehension works in practice for you, or it doesn’t. If it actually works, you might consider “believing in it a little”, if you want, and using it more. Or even use it as a ‘consciousness operating system’.

What Does the Wholeness Comprehension Do?
– The Wholeness Comprehension Bridges the Gap Between Higher Consciousness and Everyday Life

The Wholeness Comprehension is a way to make greater or “higher” consciousness understandable and practically applicable. It brings together all knowledge and insights into a single, practically useful holistic system, if you will.

Most people who have explored topics like “higher” consciousness, personal development, and spirituality have probably experienced the ungrounded and airy aspects – or even the distinctly alienating aspects – that can be associated with them.

In this way, there are some classic pitfalls or challenges when following the ‘spiritual path’.

Example 1: Uncritical Guru Worship

Occasionally, we may get the sense that some people engaged in personal and spiritual development are perhaps more focused on what their guru thinks and says, or what the teachings of the system they have “bought into” direct them to, rather than what their own heart, intuition, and higher consciousness may tell them.

Example 2: Using Belief as an ‘Ego-Booster’

We may also encounter people who have gone far down a path that is hard to characterize as anything other than “a kind of sidetrack”. The typical aspect in such cases is that it revolves around BELIEVING in something specific.

Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for this belief to have the actual effect of separating the believers from everyone else (like: “We are the only ones who know what the truth is, the only ones who understand what it’s all about, we are the chosen ones, the best, the right ones”, etc.).

In other words, it is the belief in something very relative (fiction) that significantly limits the consciousness of the believers.

Example 3: How Do I Approach This in a Practical Way?

There are also some spiritual teachers who, judging by all accounts, are in some way actually “spiritually enlightened” (which probably just means that they have chosen to expand their consciousness and use it in a different way than most people), but who struggle to convey what they experience in a way that is useful for the rest of us. We can hear what they say and feel that it is true, but they can’t really tell us (in a way we can understand) how we can come to experience it the same way they do.

This is where the Wholeness Comprehension should hopefully make things a little easier and better. Because it emphasizes making the information (relatively) easy to understand and practically usable.

The concrete, practical aspect of the Wholeness Comprehension is one of its most special and useful characteristics.

The Wholeness Comprehension bridges the gap between ‘that-which-is’ (greater or “higher” consciousness, reality, and truth) and our daily consciousness as well as our daily, practical life.

In practice, this means that the Wholeness Comprehension positively influences both our inner life (with thoughts, emotions, sensations, beliefs / convictions, states of being, etc.) and our outer life (with family, relationships, housing, work, money, etc.).

The Wholeness Comprehension can be used to control how our consciousness functions in general. It is thus a kind of holistic ‘operating system’ for our consciousness. And since our consciousness controls and decides everything for us, the Wholeness Comprehension is a way to manage our entire life (both our inner and outer life).

Yes, our experience is that when we have fully understood and integrated the Wholeness Comprehension, 9 out of 10 of us will choose to let it be our consciousness operating system, simply because it is simpler, clearer, free of contradictions, more precise, and not least, works better (= gives us better results, including a better life) than whatever it was we used to control our consciousness with before. (And it was usually an operating system that was a mishmash or patchwork of different, conflicting things).

We All Already Have a (Hidden) Operating System in Our Consciousness
– The Wholeness Comprehension Is also an Operating System

Just like computers, tablets, and smartphones have an operating system such as Windows, iOS, Android, or Linux, our consciousness also has a kind of operating system. Something that determines how we use our consciousness and, therefore, also determines the quality of our experiences.

However, since we don’t learn anything about consciousness operating systems anywhere, neither in school nor at home, most of us have a rather messy patchwork of a consciousness operating system. There are things we were told by our parents and family, things we learned in school, things our religion (if we have one) tells us, and things that our culture at large has taught us, as well as things we have taught ourselves.

Some of these things are actually contradictory and can give us trouble – trouble whose origin we cannot understand. For example, we may have grown up in an environment where the attitude is that “money is bad”, while another equally common attitude is that “it’s all about having as much money as possible”. Or that “sex is dirty and not something you talk about,” but also that “sex is fun and wonderful, and absolutely necessary to talk about”. And we can easily have these and many other conflicting opinions, attitudes, and beliefs in our consciousness at the same time: They can all be part of our consciousness operating system.

Such contradictions in our consciousness operating system can make it harder for us to know what we want or make certain decisions, or they may result in cognitive dissonance, which is the uncomfortable situation that arises when we – often without realizing it – hold mutually contradictory beliefs.

And yes, our consciousness (and will) can indeed be programmed. We program our consciousness every single day, and we’ve probably been doing so since relatively shortly after we were conceived. Beliefs and habits are two typical examples of how we program our consciousness. (Feel free to read a little more about consciousness programming here).

All these programs in our consciousness must function within certain frameworks; they must be governed by something, and that is what we (Birgitte and Søren here at Good Conscious Life) call a consciousness operating system.

The Wholeness Comprehension is, therefore, a holistic understanding of wholeness, consciousness, ourselves, life, the universe and everything, which CAN ALSO be used as a consciousness operating system. And it is, by the way, a very simple, pure, light, and effective operating system, not a heavy, contradictory patchwork.

An analogy, which is just a hypothetical example: If the typical person has a consciousness operating system that takes up 100 gigabytes (data) in consciousness and emotionally “weighs” around 700 kilos, then the Wholeness Comprehension might take up around 0.1 gigabyte and “weigh” emotionally around 70 grams … or less.

Here is, in extreme brevity, how it usually goes: Once we have let go of our most confining consciousness limitations, there are just a few simple things, a general framework, so to speak, that need to “click” into place in our consciousness and be understood on a deep level. Then the Wholeness Comprehension will function perfectly as a very simple, light, and non-contradictory consciousness operating system that makes everything in our life much easier and more pleasant.

Okay … But What Is the Wholeness Comprehension All About?

Yes, that is the big question, right? The answer is vast, but CAN be said relatively briefly.

Here is a very short explanation:

The Wholeness Comprehension is about understanding reality as it actually is (= that-which-is). This is the same as understanding the overarching truth about consciousness, wholeness, ourselves (humans), the world, life, the universe and everything. It is about understanding how everything is connected, who we ourselves are, and more.

Understanding the following things via the Wholeness Comprehension is a good idea:

1. Everything, i.e., life, the universe, and ourselves (that-which-is) is conscious energy – that is, consciousness.
2. Consciousness is primary, meaning consciousness comes first, before everything else, even before anything physical.
3. The fundamental state and nature of consciousness is unity and wholeness.
4. Wholeness is therefore the basis for everything – and the fundamental state of all things, the true nature of everything (including ours) …
5. … And everything is organized as wholes within wholes within wholes (= the wholeness perspective).
6. This means: We humans are wholes, made up of smaller wholes and are part of larger wholes.
7. Wholeness works. Wholeness is the only basis and state that functions in the long run.
8. Reality (that-which-is) with the unity and wholeness of everything is truly wonderful for us to experience.
9. Consciousness is inherently creative, playfully curious, etc., and continuously creates … everything.
10. After creation, consciousness (including we humans) experiences what is created.
11. We humans ARE consciousness, just like everything else, and we create our life and experience.
12. Creation and experience require: consciousness, will, choice, energy, and relativity.
13. Relativity is “something in relation to something else, often the opposite” (e.g., big versus small).
14. Relativity is therefore based on apparent separation and apparent non-wholeness.
15. But remember: There is no separation or non-wholeness. Separation and non-wholeness are experiences, not reality.
16. Which means that everything relative is unreal, a lie, virtual, fiction, play, a way of experiencing.
17. But we can EXPERIENCE the relative, the fiction we’ve created, as nearly-real.
18. We can FORGET that the experiences we’ve created through relativity are virtual (fiction and play).
19. If we BELIEVE the relative (the relative reality), the created, is real and true, we will have a bad experience.
20. If we REMEMBER that we create our experience and that it is a game, we will have a good experience.

When we understand these things on a deep level (all the way down to our cells, bones, and the deepest parts of our consciousness), we will become enormously empowered, and we will experience inner peace, love, joy, happiness, freedom, creativity, play, humor, meaning, and other beautiful states of being that most of us long for.

If the above seems both difficult to grasp and abstract on the one hand, and perhaps too simple and too easy and simple on the other, it is perfectly normal. On the one hand, we have tried to convey the essence of the Wholeness Comprehension in very few words. On the other hand, the Wholeness Comprehension is indeed very simple, and in its simplicity, it can easily seem trivial.

But this is not just the way things actually ARE (in our opinion and experience), it is also the way we need to learn to think if we are to create a better life for ourselves and a better world for all of us. Just like reality. 🙂

How Can We Actually Understand the Wholeness Comprehension?

Intellectual learning about the Wholeness Comprehension (e.g., reading this text) is beneficial, but unfortunately, we cannot think our way into the Wholeness Comprehension. Intellectual understanding can be an important step along the way, but for the Wholeness Comprehension to have the greatest effect in terms of a better life, it must be experienced.

Here are three ways to experience the Wholeness Comprehension… plus a bonus way:

1) Through a Big Journey in Consciousness

A journey in consciousness can be done in many ways: from yoga, meditation (both guided and non-guided), and deep hypnosis, to float therapy, neurofeedback, and the Let Go Method (in book form here), or The Work, The Release Technique, or The Sedona Method, or PSYCH-K, The Lefkoe Method, or The Journey. More powerful methods include various types of breathwork, such as Holotropic Breathwork, and perhaps the most powerful methods which are inner journeys through entheogens, or psychedelic therapy.

2) Through the Letting Go of Consciousness Limitations

We can also experience the Wholeness Comprehension through the letting go of our own consciousness limitations, including a paradigm shift from the old, reductionist, physically-mechanical paradigm (worldview, way of thinking) to a new, larger, and more precise quantum-physical, wholeness-oriented consciousness paradigm.

3) Through Socializing with Others Who Are Already Experiencing the Wholeness Comprehension

We can also approach a holistic view by spending time with people who are already living in the Wholeness Comprehension, i.e., those who have ‘installed’ the Wholeness Comprehension as a ‘consciousness operating system’. (When we (Birgitte and Søren) work directly with people, this exactly happens – people begin to gradually see things in the way that we do, and this is typically a huge help for them, as it solves many problems and makes everything much easier to understand and handle).

The Bonus Way: A Shortcut
– Go for the Effects of the Wholeness Comprehension

The bonus way is not initially to experience the Wholeness Comprehension directly, but rather indirectly. Namely, by experiencing the EFFECTS of the Wholeness Comprehension:

– By testing the elements of the Wholeness Comprehension in our own consciousness and practical life and seeing if they work or not.

Enjoy!

We hope that this brief introduction to the Wholeness Comprehension has made it a little clearer what this holistic perspective is about and why it can be useful.

We wish you all the best on your personal development journey!

 

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