Parts Of A Whole with David Bohm

Program Description

This internationally known physicist has developed a theory of quantum physics which addresses the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole. The late Bohm’s concept of “implicate order” provides a basis for bridging science to the realm of spirit. For two decades he explored this possibility with J. Krishnamurti, the famed religious teacher. 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 University, where he worked closely with Albert Einstein. (For other New Dimensions conversations with David Bohm find program #2071, #2181, and #2182)

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: 1785                   Host: Michael Toms                    Interview Date: 4/27/1983