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The Hidden Spirituality of Bohm & Hiley
This is the fifth (I think) and (likely) last post on the physics and metaphysics of David Bohm and Basil Hiley as expressed in their 1993 book The Undivided Universe. Here we look at spiritual interpretations of the ideas of active information and the implicate order.
In the last three posts in this series I’ve tried to explain as best I can, with my non-science and math mind, what David Bohm and Basil Hiley call their “ontological interpretation” of quantum mechanics. To understand the ontology — what is real in their view — about quantum physics we need to get out of our Cartesian framework of seeing everything in a kind of grid of time and space. That’s because the entity that makes things real is not located in time and space, and the order within it is nothing like the things we normally consider ordered. What lies beneath everything resides in “pre-space” and is something they call the implicate order. Implicate refers to enfolded. Everything that is unfolds from that implicate order including the entire mental and physical landscape. What is real unfolds, has some but limited stability, and then enfolds back into the underlying order.
Quantum fields or particles, and for that matter our thoughts, demonstrate an unlimited number of possibilities. A particle is in superposition or a cloud of possibilities until it is “collapsed” or settled into…
