Interrelatedness

An anthropocentric view of the world, abetted by the dominant position of the human species, tends to ignore or rather forget that life has sprang from the womb of the earth. The main consequence of this common beginning is that life on earth has common ancestry.
Concerning the human species, according to Guy Murchie in The Seven Mysteries of Life, the most distant relation you can have with any human being, regardless of race, is approximately that of the 50th cousin (if someone finds this hard to believe, it is mathematically proven). This means that all our family trees merge into one genetic tree which covers the whole humanity when we reach back fifty generations.
One of the implications of the above is that what diverse spiritual teachings have been claiming about the brotherhood of man is true but if we want to be more accurate we should be talking about the cousinhood of man. The interesting point for me here is that we could reach such 'spiritual' insights through scientific observations.
The second effect is that there is no such thing as purity of race since all our ancestors have intermixed. Now, when we take into account the whole of life, this interrelatedness pervades everything. For example, can you specify the boundary between you and the outside world? Firstly, you are made of some common elements found on earth. You breathe the world, you eat the world and you develop your consciousness through your interaction with the world.
Life would be meaningless without this interrelatedness, which makes it all the more imperative for humanity to find new ways of perceiving reality. These new ways should enable us to stop fragmenting reality and consequently ourselves because we have tended to focus on the foreground of competition and disregard the background of cooperation which is the prerequisite for sustaining life.

The Abstract quality of life

Taking my cue from the previous posting where the implicate order is seen as the basis of life one feels that this basis has an abstract quality. The pervading materiality of contemporary life, nevertheless, has obscured this and most would smirk at the notion of abstraction since everything seems so concrete around them. But what do we mean exactly by the abstraction of life?
Firstly, if one considers quarks, electrons, atoms, cells which are in a constant process of replacement - according to Bohm continuously unfolding into the explicate order and enfolding back to the implicate order - one realises that our bodies are waves of energy and energy is, of course, abstract. Furthermore, the DNA, the basis of organic life, is also part of this process since the essence of it is not found in the visible reality of the known elements of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and the few others which constitute the bricks of life. This essence is enfolded in the coded pattern of the above elements which carries the message of life. This pattern has a parallel in music where the notes themselves are meaningless if they are not composed into coherent melodies. In the same way the DNA is the music score which creates the melodies of life.
An overall effect of the above could be that the essence of life is elusive since everything evolves in the spiral process of the holomovement. That is why there can never be an ultimate theory which explains everything. Can there ever be the ultimate poem which makes all the others redundant?