ENFOLDING/UNFOLDING IN THE FLOW
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From: Constance Hall-Orman
Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 10:16 AM
Subject: enfolding/unfolding in the flow
ID: 266930

For Bohm there is an underlying order of wholeness beneath our perception of separate things. He likened this to a flowing stream:

On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow. Such transitory subsistence as may be possessed by these abstracted forms implies only a relative independence or autonomy of behavior, rather than absolutely independent existence as ultimate substances.

Scientific observation of ‘quantum potential’ by David Bohm, an American by birth but British by exile during McCarthyism 1950s.