Essential Reality with David Bohm

Program Description

Stripping away the known and seeing reality for what it is, rather than for what our thought represents it to be, provides the theme for this compelling conversation. The late Bohm addresses the nature of thought and thinking, and how our conditioned minds become subordinate to the way we think. He says the thinking process “is a representation of what is, but is not what is,” and goes on to challenge our perception of time and space as illusory. From mindless thought to experiencing each moment as eternity, Bohm takes us on a whirlwind tour of consciousness. (For other New Dimensions conversations with David Bohm find program #1785, #2071, and #2181)

The late David Bohm was a quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy, and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project. He became an assistant professor at Princeton Univesity, where he worked closely with Albert Einstein. He’s the author of Quantum Theory (new edition Dover Publications; 1989). Bohm’s approach to philosophy and physics receive expression in his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Routledge Kegan Paul 1981) and Science, Order and Creativity (Bantam 1987). His final work, the posthumously published The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory (Routledge Kegan Paul 1995), resulted from a decades-long collaboration with his colleague Basil Hiley. To learn more about the work of the late David Bohm go to www.david-bohm.net

Program Number: 2182                        Host: Michael Toms                        Interview Date: 6/12/1990