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The
idea of this holomovement is an endless enfolding and unfolding
into infinite dimensionality that contains within it independent
sub-totalities such as physical forms, elements and human beings
with relative autonomy with layers upon layers going deeper and
deeper into the unknown and indescribable totality of the whole.
The holomovement is thus considered “the fundamental
ground of all matter.”
Bohm
refers to the manifest world as the “explicate order” that
is secondary or derivative in the sense that it “flows out of
the law of the Implicate Order” where there is a “totality
of forms that have an approximate kind of recurrence, stability
and separability” that make up our changeable, manifest world.
At
the very depths of the ground of all being exists a plenum or
“an immense background of energy” in one whole and unbroken
movement in which all aspects ultimately merge and can be
considered a “movement in which new wholes are emerging.”
It is seen as the interplay between both implicate and
the explicate orders as the flow of matter, manifested and
interdependent, towards consciousness.
"Life is enfolded in the totality and even when it
is not manifest, it is somehow implicit."
Perhaps
most notable is that the Implicate Order is an appropriate way
to view the processes of consciousness.
Consciousness can be described as a series of moments
where one moment gives rise to the next in which consciousness
itself is an interchange of a feedback process that gives rise
to an ever growing accumulation of experience, knowledge,
meaning and understanding.
It is a process that is deeply inherent within each of
us.
Bohm
noted that the human individual could be considered an
“intrinsic feature of the universe, which would be incomplete
in some fundamental sense.” In this way human participation provides the means for
“Implicate Order to know itself better.”
The individual that makes use of his or her inner energy
and intelligence transforms his or her life circumstance and
consciousness.
And
the collective consciousness of many individuals “can begin to
generate the immense power necessary to ignite the whole
consciousness of the world, to put it all on fire” and thus
each of us carries within the ability to transform the world.
In the depths of the Implicate Order, there is a
“consciousness, deep down—of the whole of mankind.”
In
following the holographic model what becomes a part of
individual consciousness in turn becomes added to the whole of
consciousness or the collective.
It is this collective consciousness that is truly
powerful and indivisible in oneness.
Each individual has the responsibility and accountability
to contribute to the architecture of the consciousness of
mankind. This is the inner, ever present activity of the eternal
creativity within the center core of our being. It is the Divine
Essence within each of us.
As
we, as humans take part in the process of this totality, we are
“fundamentally changed in the very activity in which his [or
her] aim is to change that reality, which is the content of his
[or her] consciousness.”
And thus an individual person and mankind collectively
will be brought into the fullness within the greater dimension
of reality or what Bohm called the Cosmic Apex, an ultimate
level where the subtle source of the non-manifest exists as an
intelligence beyond any of the energies defined in thought.
“There’s a truth, an actuality, a being beyond what can be
grasped in thought, and this is intelligence, the sacred, the
holy."
Bohm’s
cosmic model appears to suggest that this “holiness” has
existed since the foundation of the cosmos and that this sacred,
pure, active intelligence from which all that is manifest in the
cosmos comes is present in the cyclical process of the universe
where it enfolds information into the many levels of
consciousness, into all of life.
It is the Implicate Order, the plenum of subtle energy,
which is the Ground of all Being.
Deeper
intelligence and consciousness is part of the interaction of the
cosmic process in which it perpetually grasps itself into higher
and higher levels of consciousness through sub-totalities such
as human beings and in this process of this feedback
interchange, the cosmos is becoming progressively personalized
as each of our individual personalities contributes
individualized consciousness to the whole.
Bohm
points to this possibility in which he states, "each of
these elements is a projection, in a sub-totality of yet higher
dimension. So it will be ultimately misleading and indeed wrong
to suppose, for example, that each human being is an independent
actuality who interacts with other human beings and with nature.
Rather, all these are projections of a single totality. As a
human being takes part in the process of this totality, he is
fundamentally changed in the very activity in which his aim is
to change that reality which is the content of his
consciousness."
In
this conscious creative process each of us possesses the ability
to choose and the freewill of choice appears to be within our
individualized consciousness.
Or in other words, it is consciousness itself that
chooses from among the possibilities acquired within it.
The origin of this creative force is the internal source
of the divine; it is the signature of the eternal essence of
each of us.
Bohm’s
concept in regards to this creativity of individualized
consciousness is referred to as the Implicate Order as a
generative order where he notes, “This order is primarily
concerned not with the outward side of development, and
evolution in a sequence of successions, but with a deeper and
more inward order out of which the manifest form of things can
emerge creatively.” This generative order also “proceeds from an origin in free
play which then unfolds into ever more crystallized forms.”
Bohm
uses Mandelbrot’s mathematically derived fractals to
demonstrate this cosmic generative order.
“Fractals involve an order of similar differences which
include changes of scale as well as other possible changes.
By choosing different base figures and generators, but
each time applying the generator on a smaller and smaller scale,
Mandelbrot is able to produce a great variety of shapes and
figures—All are filled with infinitesimal detail and are
evocative of the types of complexity found in natural forms.”
The
human condition of duality and separateness were considered by
Bohm to be evils of disorder that cause suffering and death, and
evils of ignorance that he considered the “darkness in the
human brain.” And that, “Nature has allowed humanity the
luxury to make mistakes, because humankind must have the
possibility of being creative.
It is our fledgling ranking in this cosmic process that
places us in these circumstances of choice and possible chaos.
Disorder, and its consequent suffering, will prevail as long as
all the different elements chaotically grow independently of
each other, don't work together."
Bohm
noted that pure perception was insight and that because of the
“low level of our ego development that has been manifested by
our grandiosity, our emotional fears and pressures, our ignorant
worldviews, and our gross extraversion, this insight is more
than often deflected by a closed mind. The opposite of the
closed mind is the openness to interiority. Human beings must
look within in order to meet and scrutinize universal
insight.”
According
to the theory of Implicate Order, the cosmos is in a continuous
state of process in which there exists perpetual feedback that
continuously recycles forward into a greater expansive mode of
being and consciousness. By following a continuous field of movement in which
information from an underlying cosmic intelligence supplies the
information the process is seen as a closed loop in that the
creative pulse of life begins at a point of stasis, moves
outward in expansion, followed by inward observation and back to
the point of stasis to begin the creative process once again.
References:
“Wholeness and the
Implicate Order” David Bohm
“The Undivided
Universe” David Bohm and B.J. Hiley
“Science, Order, and
Creativity” David Bohm and F. David Peat
David Bohm, "Quantum
Theory as an Indication of a New Order in Physics--Implicate and
Explicate Order in Physical Law," PHYSICS (GB), 3.2 (June
1973)
David
Bohm, B.J, Hiley, and P.N. Kaloyerou, "Ontological Basis
for the Quantum Theory," (January 1987)
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