David Bohm: his life and ideas

A new film, Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm
– https://www.infinitepotential.com – has just been released for
free online. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues,
Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss its excellent telling of
the dramatic life and revolutionary insights of this deep
scientific thinker. Rupert first met Bohm in 1982 soon after the
publication of his book A New Science of Life precipitated a
negative reaction from the militant materialists; the editor of
the leading scientific journal Nature tried to excommunicate him.
Bohm had a similar experience forty years earlier with the
quantum physics community. Mark and Rupert talk about what Bohm
drew from Krishnamurti, and how the formalisms of quantum theory
are influenced by psychological and spiritual perceptions. They
also explore the ways in which Bohm’s notion of an implicate
order resonates strongly with that of morphic fields, and discuss
Bohm’s engagement with the ideas of Owen Barfield, about whom
Mark has written. They highly recommend the film.