Notes - more on the David Bohm concept of wholeness /

         Early afternoon. Two small cavities filled in the morning, later lunch at Panera, for you soup. Scott of Schmidt Construction and his assistant Eric are again working on the leak caused partly by the Gilkey Windows sliding door and also by a section of the original deck flashing (1993) that was not extended far enough. Carol is at the doctor’s picking up a prescription. So, it is you, the cat who is upstairs in the bedroom, and a bit of noise from carpentry tools.

         Indeed, this is the day in a few words, Amorella. There was about half an inch of snow this morning though and it stuck to the multitude of tree limbs so it was quite strikingly winter upon awakening. Now though, most snow is off the gray-like limbs of trees and bushes as well as fast disappearing from the grass below the somberly gray February Ohio sky. We missed the full moon that was quite spectacularly almost full Monday night.

         Late afternoon. Last night you wrote about David Bohm’s concepts but as you were just reading the Wikipedia article again you found more pertainent information that may be usable for ‘backup’ concept in this present chapter, eight.

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Further edited Selection from the Bohm Wikipedia article:

“In Bohm’s conception of order, then, primacy is given to the undivided whole, and the implicate order inherent within the whole, rather than to parts of the whole, such as particles, quantum states, and continua. For Bohm, the whole encompasses all things, structures, abstractions and processes, including processes that result in (relatively) stable structures as well as those that involve metamorphosis of structures or things. In this view, parts may be entities normally regarded as physical, such as atoms or subatomic particles, but they may also be abstract entities, such as quantum states. Whatever their nature and character, according to Bohm, these parts are considered in terms of the whole, and in such terms, they constitute relatively autonomous and independent "sub-totalities". The implication of the view is, therefore, that nothing is fundamentally separate or autonomous.

Bohm 1980, p. 11 said: "The new form of insight can perhaps best be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement. This view implies that flow is, in some sense, prior to that of the ‘things’ that can be seen to form and dissolve in this flow". According to Bohm, a vivid image of this sense of analysis of the whole is afforded by vortex structures in a flowing stream. Such vortices can be relatively stable patterns within a continuous flow, but such an analysis does not imply that the flow patterns have any sharp division, or that they are literally separate and independently existent entities; rather, they are most fundamentally undivided. Thus, according to Bohm’s view, the whole is in continuous flux, and hence is referred to as the holomovement (movement of the whole).

From: Wikipedia – Implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm

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         I found an image that conveys the vortex in the flow in the SPIE Digital Library [SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics.]

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Trailing vortices behind aircraft wings.

The main hazard associated with a trailing wake vortex occurs when the aircraft behind happens to fly along the stream's axis of rotation. A disadvantage of airborne Doppler sensors is that resolution is low in the angular scanning range near the flight axis. Moreover, the axial Doppler shift due to air turbulence must be extracted from the much stronger shift owing to the aircraft movement itself. Finally, the time needed to scan a full image frame over the vortices typically lasts several seconds, which leads to severe distortion in the geometry of the resulting image.

From: /spie.org/x14493.xml         [13 June 2007, SPIE Newsroom. DOI:                                                                                                             10.1117/2.1200706.0615]

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         You appear to have a sense of the material to the extent I can put it to use in an explanation of Merlyn’s ability to be in two or more places at once. This is the ‘spirit’ of Merlyn, his ‘heartansoulanmind’. Almost time for supper and the news. Post. - Amorella


          I have an 'understanding' yes, but still I cannot fully articulate what my understanding of Bohm's work means to me as the theory goes deeper within and I am sure I am editing and revising the concept to meet my needs for internalization.