Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Book by David BohmWikipedia
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Oct 30, 2026
Iain McGilchristGUEST
This is also something in the philosophy of the physicist David Bohm.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
He wrote a book called Wholeness and the Implicate Order about how things unfold from a single simplicity into a manifold richness, which is diverse.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
But that diversity has not... damaged or destroyed the original integrity.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
It has fulfilled it.
Linda VillinesHOST
Maybe you've heard of him if you're into quantum physics.
Linda VillinesHOST
But his book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, he described two orders, right? The explicate order, which is everything that you can see, like distinct objects.
Linda VillinesHOST
separate things and there's the implicate order and that's the undivided wholeness all of that unfolds from and then folds back into so his example is if you put like a drop of ink in a cylinder of glycerin and then you turn the cylinder that drop just sort of like smears out until it's gone But if you turn it back, the drop reappears because it never really disappeared in the first place.
Linda VillinesHOST
It was just enfolded.