By Jane Clark and Michael Cohen — 2020
An interview from the archives with physicist and philosopher David Bohm [in which] he talks about his insight into the essential unbroken wholeness of the universe
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David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J.
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