While the concept of Holism is relatively new in Western Nulavance Review philosophy, Eastern philosophy has always advocated that dualism is the cause of most confusion and stress in human life. It prescribes adoption of Holism as the way for life for achieving our truest potential in all areas of life.
In the Bhagwad Geeta, Krishna struggled to explain non-duality (Holism) to the about to run away warrior prince Arjuna by focusing on the difference between object and subject. Do we always see what we see, and is what we see the reality? According to Vedantic theory an object is not perceived by the sense organs, but through them.
Without the subject there is no object. Therefore we see the same thing as different at different times. This being so, the subject and object are one. They can be either real or un-real. Real being, that which always remains the same, in the past, present and future. Unreal, is what we believe to be existing, but which neither existed in the past, nor will exist in the future. A dream or an imagination is unreal, but the person dreaming or imagining is real.
