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Title: Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm ISBN: 0-415-28979-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As easy as wrestling a hologram!
Comment: At its heart, David Bohm's awe-inspiring book explores a deceptively simple and [I think] very old idea: everything in the universe that we can observe, measure, describe, and come to understand is connected, even if we cannot observe, measure, describe and come to understand that connection (Bohm's "implicate order"). It's not for the faint hearted. You'll be confronted with a devastatingly beautiful philosophical insight that completely undermines our post-"enlightenment" western tendency to divide, conquer, fragment and isolate everything we attempt to understand. You may need to skip the mathematical chunks and do some background reading into Quantum physics to survive the rigours of the argument. You'll probably get frustrated at Bohm's winsome ability to be mathematician and physicist one minute and philosopher and mystic the next. But if you hang in there, you'll find yourself returning again and again to contemplate this profound contribution to occidental thinking, as I have.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm not quite ready for this book
Comment: What Freud is to psychoanalysis, Thomas Merton and Aquinas are to Christian theology and spirituality, Maimonedes is to Judaism, Picasso is to modern art, Armstrong, Ellington, Parker and Coltrane are to jazz and Einstein is to the first half of the twentieth century in terms of science, is what this man and this book will probably be for the next hundred or so years of our culture. I am still having a hard time with this book, because he reifies and affirms so many of my most cherished intuitions regarding spirituality via using the highest brand of intellectuallisms one can probably hope to use in today's world--AND VICE VERSA.
I would recommend anyone who finds the majesty of today's world and its endeavors to bridge the gap between science and spirituality fascinating to read first the work of his would be disciples: Michael Talbot (the Holographic Universe) and Jenny Wade (Changes of Mind). They will prepare both your mind and heart for what Bohm elucidates in this book, the central one of his life, thought and career.
Nonetheless, this book effectively bridges the gap, and becomes in may ways the blue print by which the highest level of consciousness and perspective achievable in the context of Western Society today will be henceforth embraced and appreciated. Bohm was one of the most important thinkers in Western culture, not just our time or the last century. And this incredible challange of a work of his may not take you half as long to fully digest as it is taking me, but it will open your eyes in ways that you would not expect about possibility, mind, matter, energy, thought, order and existence in the universe. The yogis and the Memphite priests of ancient Egypt were right: here is the proof by the highest science.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring but difficult reading
Comment: David Bohm is truly a giant - I normally read with a pencil, marking issues of importance or thought provoking ideas and concepts. Reading Wholeness and Implicate Order put this practice to the test - my copy of the book is littered with lines, questions, remarks and NB's.
I do not have an interest in quantum physics, so some of the discussions were a bit beyond my comprehension - as a book on philosophy though, the text stands out. Suggestions made by Bohm with regard to our fragmented views and approach to life, how we can and should re-look at all our frames of reference and even the use of language have far reaching consequences for mankind - that is if we actually give heed to "the call".
The principles and dilemmas explored by Bohm are of great relevance to all - I must warn you though, the book is not an easy read! Have patience and don't give up - the wealth of understanding and insight one can obtain (or at least be made aware of) by this book is well worth the effort!
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Title: Thought As a System by David Bohm, Lee Nichol ISBN: 0415110300 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Essential David Bohm by Lee Nichol, David Bohm ISBN: 0415261740 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Quantum Theory by David Bohm ISBN: 0486659690 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: On Creativity by David Bohm, Lee Nichol ISBN: 0415173965 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot ISBN: 0060922583 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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