David Bohm

DavidBohm (1917-1992)  was one of the 20th Century’s most brilliant physicists. Albert Einstein called him his spiritual son. The Dalai Lama relied upon him as his “science guru.” So why is it that hardly any of us know the name: David Bohm? Growing up in a poor Pennsylvania coal-mining town during the Great Depression, David Bohm possessed a rare and maverick intelligence that baffled his parents and peers. After earning a scholarship to go to college, Bohm got the attention of the greatest minds in science and was the one that Einstein nominated as his “spiritual successor” and his Holiness the Dalai Lama called his “Science Guru”. By telling the little-known story of David Bohm and evoking the realms he explored in his research, INFINITE POTENTIAL takes us on a mesmerizing and immersive journey into the mystery of Consciousness ––through the use of hypnotic music and rich visual tapestries. Oxford philosopher and physicists Sir Roger Penrose, and many more who were influenced by Bohm’s revolutionary work. He was a physicist heavily involved with quantum mechanics, systems processes, and, in the latter stages of his life, the relationship between consciousness and his theory of matter.  Having spent the early part of his career in the laboratory examining the behavior of subatomic particles, gaining recognition and winning awards for his work (including the Nobel), his views regarding the direction of physics and the fundamental nature of reality eventually caused him to diverge from the traditional scientific community.  Reacting to the “Copenhagen interpretation,”—the consensus of his peers that the paradox as to how matter simultaneously exists in both static as well dynamic form could be explained—as well as physics continued inability to discover the “ultimate particle,” Bohm retreated from the scientific community to develop his ideas independently. After 40 years of work he proposed that the cosmos is a single unbroken wholeness in which each part of the flow contains the entire flow. And he showed that it is a oneness very similar to Plato’s idea that there is one living being which has two aspects that he called the implicate order and the explicate order. So the explicate order is that subset of wholeness that is directly perceptible to the human senses, the eyes the nose the taste the feeling. So the five senses plus the mind is what we would perceive as the normal physical universe. And the implicate order, he said, is everything else. He was able to comprehend that behind the duality of our everyday world, is a deeper dimension where everything is interconnected, a full expression of WHOLENESS. In the idea of the OBSERVER is the OBSERVED he sensed that the realm of BEING is fully consistent with quantum theory. Bohm often spoke about how emotions can hinder rational thinking. His explorations led him to intuit a hidden order to reality––the Quantum Potential––that underlies both the microscopic world of subatomic particles and also the macro world of stars and galaxies. Bohm had turned to Eastern thought and the wisdom traditions of India to talk about something that underlies all of creation––a realm that mystics have known about for millennia and modern science is only just beginning to explore. Bohm’s revolutionary ideas were way ahead of their time––a threat to the scientific orthodoxy. And that’s why he was dismissed. The quantum theory is, without doubt, the most revolutionary development in modern physics. Unfortunately, a large part of its potential impact on our overall world view has been lost sight of, because he thwarted scientism and political dogma. The main emphasis in working with this theory has therefore been on the development of a mathematical formalism that can predict the widest possible range of experimental results. Bohm states “Not only do we transform as eternity unfolds in us, but also eternity may transform, as it returns to itself in a richer way, through our participation. We may participate in the whole and thus help to give it meaning…we are an intrinsic feature of the universe which would be incomplete without us in some fundamental sense”… He began to believe that we are all ONE CONSCIOUSNESS and that the Ultimate Reality is that Consciousness, the immeasurable, the “Spirit” that Bohm says “is never born and never dies”…and the most profound realization of all…there is No dying, No death. ​ David Bohm -Infinite Potential David Bohm -YouTube