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.

     This is a profound suggestion. In his general theory of relativity Einstein astounded the world when he said that space and time are not separate entities, but are smoothly linked and part of a larger whole he called the space-time continuum. Bohm takes this idea a giant step further. He says that 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...

     ...Because all such things are aspects of the holomovement, he feels it has no meaning to speak of consciousness and matter as interacting. In a sense, the observer is is observed. The observer is also the measuring device, the experimental results, the laboratory, and the breeze that blows outside the laboratory. In fact, Bohm believes that consciousness is a more subtle form of matter, and the basis for any relationship between the two lies not in our own level of reality, but deep in the implicate order. Consciousness is present in various degrees of enfoldment and unfoldment in all matter, which is perhaps why plasmas possess some of the traits of living things. As Bohm puts it, "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."

     Similarly, he believes that 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.

     The idea that consciousness and life (and indeed all things) are ensembles enfolded throughout the universe has an equally dazzling flip side. 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 Ceasar 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, which gives new meaning to William Blake's famous poem:



To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

a smart kid Wrote:

the observer is is observed.

AbraxusWrote:
Aaron , I like what you have said on your profile page about how do we know where we end and the world begins .... I thought about it today as I was walking over the bridge between my parking place and a long day of work. The river was flowing slowly to the North as it always seems to remember to do ... and I watched it as if it was a part of me flowing - and all the reflections and swirling patterns were in me - that was probably the most peaceful moment I had all day.



I often think , and many are trying to teach me , that Duality is purely an illusion that we all agree on for the sake of creating a setting in which to learn things. That the true nature of things is without boundaries and everything is connected.



My teacher / therapist gave me a mantra that he felt would dissolve just about any fear / anxiety / etc. that results from over immersing ourselves in Duality.



'Not two but one'



This can apply to any time when we are finding an internal debate between two seemingly opposing ideas - and there is no peace in the mind because we can not figure out which one is RIGHT and which one is WRONG .... they are not two things. The understanding that they are they same thing often changes the rules of the game.







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The following site and friend provided a great introduction to the higher vibrations of our multidimentional world... [http://www.inlightimes.com/archives/2002/06/warren-grossman-story.htm] his simple method of grounding provided the following second site experience;
It was a spring day, my favorite tree (a pin oak) was my grounding environment that morning. After getting all the chakras cleansed and infused with light, I gave gaze toward the ordinary. But in this state of contemplation I began to see not only the aura of energy around the branches above but also the clear blue sky became alive! This realm, what had been screened out as an empty air, was now filled with swirling points of light. Not unlike mini flashlights with trailing tails, they chased each other and acted in complete intellegent fashon. Ive since replicated this and tried to communicate using all my known methods. I have not been able to influence them but they, (swirling points of light) have not been hampered or directly degraded by my association. My last attempt was to direct my conciousness into their field of play. My investigation continues... just sharing a moment that was in line with your experience.

AbraxusWrote:
My teacher / therapist gave me a mantra that he felt would dissolve just about any fear / anxiety / etc. that results from over immersing ourselves in Duality.



'Not two but one'



This can apply to any time when we are finding an internal debate between two seemingly opposing ideas - and there is no peace in the mind because we can not figure out which one is RIGHT and which one is WRONG .... they are not two things. The understanding that they are they same thing often changes the rules of the game.