Organismic and communal integrity

Watch your house cat. She makes sure she’s clean, fed, rested . . . fine.

One of the dictionary definitions of ‘integrity’ is: the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished. We might add: being fine, being the right way.

People also strive for integrity. It’s not so easy within the context of chaotic modern social and cultural pressures.

There is a life force. (Which “The Story of B” says is the sacred thing.) It manifests as a virtually infinite number of individual organisms. It’s a wonderment to see how each, from the smallest to the largest, has a sense of integrity, i.e., a striving to “feel right” as per the physical and behavioral patterns of that type of organism.

So people want to feel right, to feel integrated, whole, well. What’s been mostly forgotten is that people used to have that sensibility in regard to their communal collective . . . their band or clan or tribe or village . . . an attention to commonality and affinity. The communal collectives were akin to social organisms.