Post by Nitaidas on Jan 21, 2010 12:47:18 GMT -6
I started reading this book, Infinite Potential: the life and times of David Bohm by F. David Peat in London and have nearly completed it here. It is a fascinating look at the life and thought of an extraordinary individual, a physicist who was extraordinarily creative and who tried to blaze new paths for the field of physics to travel. He became involved with J. Krishnamurti in the 60s and 70s but seems to have seen through his bs by the 80s. Even though Krishnamurti was a phony, his dialogues with Bohm may have acted as a catalyst for some of Bohm's most creative ideas, ideas such as the implicate order, the holographic nature of the universe, and the sense of the wholeness and unity of reality. I highly recommend the book. It got me interested in reading some of Bohm's work, at least those that can be understood by non-specialists like me.
It seems to me that Bohm and those influenced by him may offer the best means of locating CV in modern scientific thought. I have been looking for ways of viewing the world that dissolve the distinction (false distinction in my view) between spirit and matter without denying an important or even fundamental role to spirit or consciousness. Bohm's thinking about physics seems to fit that bill. Most of the insights of CV are based on intuition, which is a very weak base to depend on. If reality is implicate, in other words, each part contains the whole, then it is entirely possible that meditators or visionaries if they truly saw what was right before them gained some genuine insight into the nature of the whole and maybe into what lies beyond the whole, beyond space-time. At any rate, it is worth some exploration. What else have I got to do? Oh, besides all those books.
It seems to me that Bohm and those influenced by him may offer the best means of locating CV in modern scientific thought. I have been looking for ways of viewing the world that dissolve the distinction (false distinction in my view) between spirit and matter without denying an important or even fundamental role to spirit or consciousness. Bohm's thinking about physics seems to fit that bill. Most of the insights of CV are based on intuition, which is a very weak base to depend on. If reality is implicate, in other words, each part contains the whole, then it is entirely possible that meditators or visionaries if they truly saw what was right before them gained some genuine insight into the nature of the whole and maybe into what lies beyond the whole, beyond space-time. At any rate, it is worth some exploration. What else have I got to do? Oh, besides all those books.