Bruce Lip­ton, PhD, along with coau­thor Steve Bhaer­man, posit in Spon­ta­neous Evo­lu­tion (affil­i­ate link), that we’re enter­ing a new stage of evo­lu­tion defined by “Holism” and a new state of “human­ity”. It’s hard to dis­agree as we con­tinue to see inte­gra­tive med­i­cine, func­tional med­i­cine, chi­ro­prac­tic, acupunc­ture, and other alter­na­tive health modal­i­ties grow and pros­per after years of ridicule by the med­ical indus­trial com­plex. Accord­ing to Lip­ton, cul­tural trans­for­ma­tions hap­pen in three stages, ridicule, harsh crit­i­cism, and then wide­spread acceptance.