I enjoyed this. I don't know Bohm. I've been fascinated by the insights in Iain McGilchrist's book, The Master and his Emissary, which is about the brain and especially the relationship of left and right frontal lobes and their respective character as I think he may see it, and differences in ability or point of view. The left of the brain being often associated with a more fragmented, static and analytic view that the right may have to find ways to fit back into the living, moving, changing, world. I'm not in any way trained in neuroscience but it has spoken to me of my experiences including of distress and it has prompted me to write in reaction to his model of the brain. It has suggested perspectives on my particular experience that are more satisfying than much psychological insight which simply did not consider some relevant issues. I found how he unpacked this into looking at human history interesting, but not overall as much as the first part of the book about the brain. I think what Bohm is saying about a context of wholeness beyond being framed as I think I've understood it makes a lot of sense in how I see McGilchrist but also simply my best experiences of healing. Best wishes and thank you for sharing, Toni
Thanks Julia. Mostly I avoided much about the brain until finally reading Iain McGilchrist’s book about two years ago. Which may account for speaking of it as if new to me and a revelation, as mostly it was, when maybe not so much for others. Look forward to reading your links.
I was introduced to Bohm many years ago by my friend Tony, who often refers to Bohm in his writings - intelligent, reflective and incredibly worthwhile. I’ll include a few links below to his current substack space and his past blogs which tag Bohm:
I do like this, especially the reference to Bohm. His work needs to be better known. We do not need to comprehend all the physics - one sentence is enough "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". I took this sentence from another physics book worth a read by non-physics people - Felix Flicker's The Magick of Matter - try the first chapter called The Physics of Dirt. Dirt, broken bits, cracks, shards-that-cut, who are we to say that we could ever comprehend the implicate order (Bohm's dynamic whole)? It will always be greater than the parts we do see, however clever we become, those parts (he calls them 'explicates') do by necessity have edges, boundaries. Take another viewpoint and the edge shifts, might hurt you or be a door to open. I love your words "the broken and the mended and the fragmented and the whole are all just different perspectives, taken from different points and at different times and through different lenses of understanding" to me this is what explicate means, all of the myriad parts in which we are embedded. Thanks for the writing
I was introduced to Bohm many years ago by my friend Tony, who often refers to Bohm in his writings - intelligent, reflective and incredibly worthwhile. I’ll include a few links below to his current substack space and his past blogs which tag Bohm:
I enjoyed this. I don't know Bohm. I've been fascinated by the insights in Iain McGilchrist's book, The Master and his Emissary, which is about the brain and especially the relationship of left and right frontal lobes and their respective character as I think he may see it, and differences in ability or point of view. The left of the brain being often associated with a more fragmented, static and analytic view that the right may have to find ways to fit back into the living, moving, changing, world. I'm not in any way trained in neuroscience but it has spoken to me of my experiences including of distress and it has prompted me to write in reaction to his model of the brain. It has suggested perspectives on my particular experience that are more satisfying than much psychological insight which simply did not consider some relevant issues. I found how he unpacked this into looking at human history interesting, but not overall as much as the first part of the book about the brain. I think what Bohm is saying about a context of wholeness beyond being framed as I think I've understood it makes a lot of sense in how I see McGilchrist but also simply my best experiences of healing. Best wishes and thank you for sharing, Toni
also wanted to say - I hadn’t considered the left brain/right brain aspect of this but it is something to explore, for sure. thank you! :-)
Thanks Julia. Mostly I avoided much about the brain until finally reading Iain McGilchrist’s book about two years ago. Which may account for speaking of it as if new to me and a revelation, as mostly it was, when maybe not so much for others. Look forward to reading your links.
I was introduced to Bohm many years ago by my friend Tony, who often refers to Bohm in his writings - intelligent, reflective and incredibly worthwhile. I’ll include a few links below to his current substack space and his past blogs which tag Bohm:
http://antoniodias.substack.com
https://antonio-dias.com/tag/david-bohm/
https://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/tag/david-bohm/
I do like this, especially the reference to Bohm. His work needs to be better known. We do not need to comprehend all the physics - one sentence is enough "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". I took this sentence from another physics book worth a read by non-physics people - Felix Flicker's The Magick of Matter - try the first chapter called The Physics of Dirt. Dirt, broken bits, cracks, shards-that-cut, who are we to say that we could ever comprehend the implicate order (Bohm's dynamic whole)? It will always be greater than the parts we do see, however clever we become, those parts (he calls them 'explicates') do by necessity have edges, boundaries. Take another viewpoint and the edge shifts, might hurt you or be a door to open. I love your words "the broken and the mended and the fragmented and the whole are all just different perspectives, taken from different points and at different times and through different lenses of understanding" to me this is what explicate means, all of the myriad parts in which we are embedded. Thanks for the writing
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I was introduced to Bohm many years ago by my friend Tony, who often refers to Bohm in his writings - intelligent, reflective and incredibly worthwhile. I’ll include a few links below to his current substack space and his past blogs which tag Bohm:
http://antoniodias.substack.com
https://antonio-dias.com/tag/david-bohm/
https://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/tag/david-bohm/