Vlad Fulgeanu's Key Ideas from Wholeness and the Implicate Order
by David Bohm

Language has an important role in bringing about fragmentation. The current structure of subject-verb-object implies separation.

Bohm proposes experimenting with a new mode of using the existing language - the rheomode (flowing mode), in which the verb will have the basic role rather than the noun.

"Thus, both in form and in content, the language will be in harmony with the unbroken flowing movement of existence as a whole."

The old Cartesian model of reality, which views the mental and the physical as two separate parts is too limited.

Thought has developed through time in such a way that it claims it does not affect anything, it just tells things as they are. Therefore it cannot see that it is creating a problem and then apparently trying to solve it.

So our general world view, which is itself a movement of thought, has to be viable in the sense that all resulting actions are in harmony, both in themselves and with regard to the whole existence. 

Consider a fast-flowing brook and think about relatively stable and autonomous "objects" which would be vortices in this stream.

Such an object might appear to be congruous and independent of other parts appearing elsewhere in the flow of water.

And yet, these abstracted things merge and unite, in one whole movement of the flowing stream.

Bohm talks about an universal flux, unbroken wholeness, called the implicate or enfolded order, where space and time are no longer dominant factors.

Rather, all our notions and separately existent material particles are just abstractions deriving from the deeper order.

These ordinary concepts appear in what is called the explicate or unfolded order.

Implicate order offers a much more coherent account of the quantum theories than does the traditional mechanistic order and the author suggests that it be taken as fundamental.

Consider a tank full of water with transparent walls and two television cameras at right angles to each other. Suppose further that the two cameras are transmitting images to two screens correspondingly which are placed in another room.

What will be seen is a certain relationship between the images appearing on the two screens. They will generally look different but will be related.

The images refer to a single actuality, which is of higher dimension than are the separate images on the screens. In other words, the images are projections from a higher-dimensional reality.

Quantum entanglement, or the property of non-locality of particles, which modern physics has failed to explain, can easily be understood with the analogy described above.

Just as each image of a fish appears different on the screen, but refers to a single instance, so do two quantum entangled particles siting at different corners of the universe may appear separate, but they are actually just two abstractions of the same thing.

Bohm proposes that consciousness is to be regarded in terms of the implicate order, along with reality as a whole.

Mind and matter are seen as projections into our explicate order from the underlying reality of the implicate order.

Looking at the extension of matter and separation of its parts in space, will not help with understanding consciousness.