Emanuel Kuntzelman

So I put that all together, that was back in 1984. I developed a wave theory, and whole levels of consciousness, and I really had the idea quite clear in my mind, and then realized, now I have to get to work, and really find my purpose in life, practical purpose, life work, generate some resources. So it took me another 30 years or so to implement all of that, while I was busy organizing cultural exchange and other business activities. So everything takes its time. The Holomovement's been a work in motion since the beginning of the universe, I was just fortunate enough to be in a couple of places with some wonderful mentors to give me the hints for the next paces on the path. Stay true to yourself, we'll all find a way.

We carry such a huge karmic baggage, no matter what our background in this life, or previous lives, if you believe in that. We accumulate this karma, and every group has their grievances and their complaints, and it festers and fosters anger inside of us. The Holomovement is there to help us understand the oneness, and help make it easy to say, I just need to drop those grievances. Surely I've done wrong to others many times, they probably have grievances to me. Life isn't about adding up or calculating our hardships or grievances, it's about finding the joy, the beauty, and the glory in the human soul to carry this forward.

The Holomovement's been a work in motion since the beginning of the universe, I was just fortunate enough to be in a couple of places with some wonderful mentors to give me the hints for the next paces on the path, and put a few concepts together. But the Holomovement is always there, always will be, and is what connects us all to the source of consciousness as we work our way through this physical realm. It's like a surfer catching a wave. You sit out there waiting, paddling, floating around, and then all of a sudden you feel this swell, this energy of profound goodness welling up behind you, and you go, yeah, I just need to stand up on my purpose board and ride it forward."

Nothing about my life is a project of my own, or an accomplishment of my own, it's only been my ability to try and understand the process and the feelings, and flow with others, and find a way that we can all work together, and respect, and love. I'm just so pleased that I have so many wonderful people in my life, that I wouldn't be here, or be accomplishing, or doing any of this without the support, love, and understanding of so many others. It is a growing positive feedback loop of mutual respect between ourselves and the world around us, and people love to see one triumph in a small way on a strange idea that can help others.

It kind of is a positive feedback loop that makes us more inspired, more creative, more joyful. It all works together when we're in sync with our purpose, and if it is a purpose of service for the good of all, then that kind of gives us an even stronger feedback loop that activates all the goodness in our heart and soul, and it all comes together in a sort of flow wave of energy, goodwill, and kindness. As we feel the joy and the understanding, and we're motivated to move in that direction, it becomes ever easier to locate that and claim it for our own, our birthright, of what we were brought here to do.

For people who haven't found their purpose, I would say, your purpose isn't lost, it's just kind of latent or dormant, perhaps, in your own perception of reality. We all have a purpose. We all have a very common purpose, which is finding humankindness and love. Within that, then we have an individual purpose that is closely linked to our skills, to our inclinations, what makes us joyful. So it's really taking our skill set and our talents, and therefore our joy, and combining that with service to the whole, to make existence for humanity more thriving, more promising. Taking the two and moving them together, and the interface between service to the whole combined with our own individual skill set, and lovings and longings, there is a place where that fits together, and it ignites this, like, oh yeah, I could do that, and it would help people, and I'd like to do it.

When you tell people you're trying to fuse science and consciousness, science and spirituality, into one practical philosophical notion, these things sound rather abstract and unusual, and most people, I remember the father of one of my early girlfriends, when I was already trying to explain this stuff, he looked at me, he said, yeah, you know, man, well, there are places for people like you, they're called monasteries. The initial effect, when you're really following your purpose and it doesn't quite fall into some sort of mainstream expectation, is the people are going to doubt you, they're going to question you, and that has to be an incentive for us to just double down on our purpose and make it clear, so that those doubts generally fade away. As they do, I think everyone admires people who really stick to their purpose, and hang in there. The original skepticism kind of turns to, okay, maybe acceptance, and maybe that kind of finally grows into, maybe this crazy guy kind of knows what he's doing after all, and I'm glad he's my friend.

The Holomovement concept came to me through the impetus of a professor in college, and was actually sociology Professor Dr. Jeffrey Haden. He explained to our class that there were enormous challenges facing the world, this was way back in the 1970s. He showed that everything, as time, we go back to the year zero and we graph it slowly, all of these quantities grow slowly, and then as we hit the 20th century, the curve goes straight upwards. A very clear message there, that we're literally running out of time, and he proposed to the class that, as sociology students, we needed to find a solution. What could we, as individuals, do or contribute in our life to help resolve this meta-crisis, and that was our assignment. So that's what really got me thinking about this, and I described, at the time, in my paper for that course, that it had to be some kind of wheel, and that all the spokes of the wheel were different contributors, and my work should be to create a solid hub to connect the spokes of the wheel. Then, in 1984, another mentor of mine, Dr. David Tieman, suggested that I read a series of books to help develop this idea.

"My purpose, like perhaps eight billion other people on the planet, is to serve the good of the whole, to have a notion of my karma, my dharma, my whole sense of being, and how that works to improve society and contribute to the evolution of the consciousness of humankind. So it's really about finding a path to the way that we can best serve, and, therefore, make ourselves fulfilled and happy. It kind of is a positive feedback loop that makes us more inspired, more creative, more joyful. It all works together when we're in sync with our purpose, and if it is a purpose of service for the good of all, then that kind of gives us an even stronger feedback loop that activates all the goodness in our heart and soul, and it all comes together in a sort of flow wave of energy, goodwill, and kindness. So I try to stay in touch with that, feel it, absorb it, and spread it out as best I can to facilitate a coming together of humanity, and service to finding solutions to the multiple challenges we have at this point in time."

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In 1984, another mentor of mine, Dr. David Tieman, suggested that I read a series of books to help develop this idea, and one of those books was Wholeness and the Implicate Order, by physicist David Bohm. In that book, I came across the word Holomovement, and that was definitely an aha moment. I thought, yeah, that's it, one beautiful holistic word that connects, in Bohm's terms, the implicate order, the source of consciousness, with the explicate order, this physical reality around us, seemingly very different, yet connected by a flow of wholeness that he called the Holomovement. So we can see that no matter how separate or different things seem, they are all one. This concept seemed surprisingly profound, yet simple, and one word describing the whole, by a man like David Bohm, who dedicated his life to furthering human understanding. I felt it was a very apt term to describe this hub of the wheel. So I put that all together, that was back in 1984. I developed a wave theory, and whole levels of consciousness, and I really had the idea quite clear in my mind, and then realized, now I have to get to work, and really find my purpose in life, practical purpose, life work, generate some resources. So it took me another 30 years or so to implement all of that. The Holomovement's been a work in motion since the beginning of the universe, I was just fortunate enough to be in a couple of places with some wonderful mentors to give me the hints for the next paces on the path, and put a few concepts together.

I was studying in France at the Sorbonne University for a while, and the teacher gave us one main paper to write for the entire course. It was to compare the use of irony between Voltaire and a Romanian playwright named Eugene Ionesco. Well, I ended up writing a dialogue as if Voltaire and Ionesco were together in the same place and time, and they were having a debate between themselves about irony, and it was actually, if I do say so myself, incredibly funny. I spent hours and hours researching. I remember giving it to my roommate, he read it, and he said, this is the most hilarious thing I've ever read, but yet an incredible sense of both the spirit of Voltaire and Ionesco. So I was so deeply proud of this paper, and I turned it in. The day I got it back from the professor, there were big red writings on it, and it said, this paper can't even be graded because it's not done in the tradition of French academics, and is unacceptable, and you'll have to rewrite it. I was really distraught. I argued with the teacher. I said, you don't understand, isn't the exercise of this to gain a deeper understanding of Voltaire, Ionesco, the problems of society, how irony helps us smooth those things out. Didn't I demonstrate that. She said, no, it's not acceptable. So anyway, I was walking home after that discussion with my roommate, and he said, that's terrible, what are you going to do. I said, well, actually, what I'm going to do is I'm going to quit school. He said, oh, now come on, don't make any drastic life-changing decisions. I said, no, really, I am going to quit school, and, as a matter of fact, I'm going to do it right here and now, before I have second thoughts. I went back to my flat, packed my backpack, walked off to the nearest metro, said to my friend, let everybody know at school I'm okay and that I've quit, and I'll see you sometime. I got in the metro and took it to the train station, and looked up at the board, and took the first train to somewhere, and never looked back. Of course, my parents and other people weren't entirely happy about that decision, about becoming a college dropout. It was probably the best decision I ever made in my life, and it set me off on a spiritual search where I really gained a true education in the way and the meaning that I needed, and it changed my life forever. It was a decision that led to me being able to fully understand implications of the Holomovement and put it into practice. So those are the kinds of situations that life will confront us with, and sometimes it does require a life-changing decision, because if you've given it your best and you know you understand the object of the project and it's not accepted by society, then you have to go your own way and take a different path. It requires a little bit of seeming insanity, perhaps, in a moment, but it's about courage and loyalty to your own vision, and to what you in your heart knows is right, and you just have to stay the path."