ONE FAMILY PLAN
Wholeness
"One of Bohm's most startling assertions is that the tangible reality of our everyday lives is really a kind of illusion, like a holographic image. Underlying it is a deeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world in much the same way that a piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram. Bohm calls this deeper level of reality the implicate (which means 'enfolded') order, and he refers to our own level of existence as the explicate, or unfolded, order... Bohm prefers to describe the universe not as a hologram, but as a 'holomovement.'" (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, p 46)
"Most mind-boggling of all are Bohm's fully developed ideas about wholeness. Because everything in the cosmos is made out of the seamless holographic fabric of the implicate order, he believes it is as meaningless to view the universe as composed of 'parts,'as it is to view the different geysers in a fountain as separate from the water out of which they flow. An electron is not an 'elementary particle.' It is just a name given to a certain aspect of the holomovement. Dividing reality up into parts and then naming those parts is always arbitrary , a product of convention, because subatomic particles, and everything else in the universe, are no more separate from one another than different patterns in an ornate carpet."
"Everything in the universe is part of a continuum. Despite the apparent separateness of things at the explicate level, everything is a seamless extension of everything else, and ultimately even the implicate and explicate orders blend into each other. Take a moment to consider this. Look at your hand. Now look at the light streaming from the lamp beside you. And at the dog resting at your feet. You are not merely made of the same things. You are the same thing. One thing. Unbroken. One enormous something that has extended its uncountable arms and appendages into all the apparent objects, atoms, restless oceans, and twinkling stars in the cosmos." (Talbot, p 48)
"Bohm believes that our almost universal tendency to fragment the world and ignore the dynamic interconnectedness of all things is responsible for many of our problems, not only in science but in our lives and our society as well." (Talbot, p 49)
"In a sense, the observer is the observed. The observer is also the measuring device, the experimental results, the laboratory, and the breeze that blows outside the laboratory." (Talbot, p 50)
"The ability of form to be active is the most characteristic feature of mind, and we have something that is mindlike already with the electron." (Bohm)
"Dividing the universe up into living and nonliving things also has no meaning. Animate and inanimate matter are inseparably interwoven, and life, too, is enfolded throughout the totality of the universe. Even a rock is in some way alive, says Bohm, for life and intelligence are present not only in all of matter, but in 'energy,' 'space,' 'time,' 'the fabric of the entire universe,' and everything else we abstract out of the holomovement and mistakenly view as separate things."
"Just as every portion of a hologram contains the image of the whole, every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. This means that if we knew how to access it we could find the Andromeda galaxy in the thumbnail of our left hand. We could also find Cleopatra meeting Caesar for the first time, for in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote." (Talbot, p 50)
"Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately projections from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond both space and time: The brain is a hologram enfolded in a holographic universe." (Talbot, p 54)
"While the traditional model of psychiatry and psychoanalysis is strictly personalistic and biographical, modern consciousness research had added new levels, realms, and dimensions and shows the human psyche as being essentially commensurate with the whole universe and all of existence." (Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain)
"Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one." (Bohm)
"Every cubic centimeter of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all the matter in the known universe!"(Talbot)
"...Matter does not exist independently from the sea, from so-called empty space. It is a part of space." (Talbot, p 51)
