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In the web of life, capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems. In recent years, the nature of human organizations has been discussed extensively in business and management circles in response to a widespread feeling that todays businesses need to undergo fundamental transformations. The goal of these traditions is to shed all ego sensations completely and, in mystical experience, merge with the totality of the cosmos. Science, society, and the rising culture, and more on.
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