We are relational beings through and through, and our primal relation is to the whole, including family, community, nation, globe, and planet earth. In other words, the evolution of wholeness is intrinsic to being human; catholicity is wired into our DNA. If evolution is the rise of wholeness and consciousness, it is also the rise of catholicity. We emerge from the whole; we belong to the whole; and we are endowed with the capacity to evolve to higher levels of complexity and consciousness. Nature reveals intrinsic wholeness, but the whole is not constrained by biological life; rather, on the
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