David Bohm and the Implicate Order

I'm reading Michael Talbot's "The Holographic Universe" that was first published in January of 1996. This was quite a significant month in my life. I started reading David Bohm's "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" but found it heavy going and thought that Talbot's book might be a lighter introduction to the subject. 

This has proven to be the case but in "The Holographic Universe" reference is made to numerous people and events that deserve coverage in their own right. One such person is Therese Neumann and in his book Talbot references a book by Montague Summers titled "The Physical Phenomenon of Mysticism" published in 1950. Therese Neumann was still alive at this time (she was born in 1898 and died in 1962). I was able to find this book on the Internet Archive and am looking forward to reading it. 

The Wikipedia article about her is predictably largely negative but does mention that "Paramahansa Yogananda visited her and wrote about her case in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, published in 1946. He wrote an entire chapter, Therese Neumann, The Catholic Stigmatist of Bavaria, which reverently gives a vivid first-hand description of one of her Friday Passion trances." I have this book so I'll have a read of the chapter relating to her.

Talbot also writes in his book about the Jansenists who he introduces in these terms:

... one of the most astounding manifestations of psychokinesis, and one of the most remarkable displays of miraculous events ever recorded, took place in Paris in the first half of the eighteenth century. The events centered around a puritanical sect of Dutch-influenced Catholics known as the Jansenists, and were precipitated by the death of a saintly and revered Jansenist deacon named Francois de Paris. Although few people living today have even heard of the Jansenist miracles, they were one of the most talked about events in Europe for the better part of a century.

I found a book on the Internet Archive titled "The Jansenists: their rise, persecutions by the Jesuits, and existing remnant: a chapter in church history" by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, (1813-1875). It was published in 1851. This too should be an interesting read. Interestingly it's available on Amazon who have the cheek to charge $0.99 for it, presumably because it's taking up such a large amount of space on its servers.

Talbot's book also contains an interesting little anecdote about Wolfgang Pauli (Robert Jahn is aerospace scientist and Brenda Dunne, a clinical psychologist, was his associate in a number of ESP experiments that they worked on together) :

Jahn and Dunne think their findings may explain the propensity some individuals seem to have for jinxing machinery and causing equipment to malfunction. One such individual was physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose talents in this area are so legendary that physicists have jokingly dubbed it the “Pauli effect” It is said that Pauli's mere presence in a laboratory would cause a glass apparatus to explode, or a sensitive measuring device to crack in half. In one particularly famous incident a physicist wrote Pauli to say that at least he couldn't blame Pauli for the recent and mysterious disintegration of a complicated piece of equipment since Pauli had not been present only to find that Pauli had been passing by the laboratory in a train at the precise moment of the mishap! Jahn and Dunne think the famous “Gremlin effect,” the tendency of carefully tested pieces of equipment to undergo inexplicable malfunctions at the most absurdly inopportune moments, often reported by pilots, aircrew, and military operators, may also be an example of unconscious PK activity.

Before "Wholeness and the Implicate Order", "The Holographic Universe", Therese Neumann, the Jansenists and Wolfgang Pauli, there was this video that first introduced me to the ideas of David Bohm. However, it is now private so I can no longer link to it.

After watching and learning about Bohm's ideas about the explicate and implicate order, I knew that I had to find out more. The important part that the Fourier Transform played in his conception of how it all worked was particularly fascinating. I found a paper on Semantic Scholar by the video's creator, Shelli Joye, that discusses matters in more detail.