Trying to understand the world, philosophers created models and theories within which they could fit whatever was observed, and which would predict what else there should be according to the theory. These theories and models were supposed to explain phenomena, the extent of knowledge, and the beyond. There was no real science, but feeble attempts to fit phenomenology into a given philosophical model.

Perhaps, Descartes (1596-1650) was the last philosopher to have influenced science by his cogito ergo sum that launched a new epoch of pragmatical science by engendering the dualism separating the mind from the body. This distinction allowed science to evolve based upon causal laws, whereas experience, the immeasurable, remained within the realm of the spirit. The division worked for mechanistic science, but the fact that science is unable to include all aspects of existence (such as consciousness) points in the direction of the existence of other than causal lawfulness. Ever since the emergence of modern science, philosophy became a kind of a footnote to science and phenomenology, trying to explain in philosophical terms what this or that scientific achievement means. Thereby, philosophy lost its lofty status of true knowledge, the ability to create the conceptual basis, the structure within which science, biology, psychology, and every other human endeavor could evolve.

Holophany could become the philosophy that could direct human endeavor not by telling people what there is, what they should see, but by pointing out where to look.