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See reality whole — and never think the same way again

A rigorous, text-grounded journey into David Bohm's implicate order — where you don't just understand a radical new physics of reality, you learn to use it as a living technology for thought, perception, and creative action in your own field.

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The Bohm Institute

"Bohm's ideas are not a destination you arrive at — they are a way of moving through reality that, once learned, you cannot unlearn."Joseph Riggio

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Decode Bohm's implicate and explicate order framework and articulate why information — not matter or energy — is proposed as the primary ground of reality
  • Trace the argument of Wholeness and the Implicate Order chapter by chapter and reconstruct its core thesis in your own words with confidence
  • Unpack Bohm and Krishnamurti's Thought As A System to identify how conditioned thought fragments perception and perpetuates collective and personal dysfunction
  • Apply the concept of the holomovement to your own field — whether therapy, design, education, or science — as a practical lens for systemic, non-fragmented thinking
  • Use Bohm's dialogue principles (suspension of assumption, collective coherence) as a facilitated human technology in group settings, conversations, and creative collaboration
  • Construct a personal epistemological framework grounded in implicate order thinking, enabling you to approach uncertainty, complexity, and meaning with structural clarity rather than fragmentation

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The curriculum

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6 modules · 28 lessons

1

The Ground of Reality: Why Information Comes First

Establishes the foundational shift from matter-and-energy primacy to information as the ground of existence, orienting students to Bohm's core ontological provocation.

  • 1.1The Crisis in Conventional Physics and PsychologyIncluded
  • 1.2Fragmentation as the Root ProblemIncluded
  • 1.3Information as Primary: The Ontological ShiftIncluded
  • 1.4Wholeness as a Working PrincipleIncluded
2

Wholeness and the Implicate Order: A Chapter-by-Chapter Reconstruction

Guides students through Bohm's landmark text systematically, building confident comprehension of its argument from quantum evidence to cosmological implication.

  • 2.1Fragmentation and Wholeness in Science (Chapters 1–2)Included
  • 2.2The Rheomode: Language That Moves with Reality (Chapter 3)Included
  • 2.3Quantum Mechanics and the Implicate Order (Chapters 4–5)Included
  • 2.4The Explicate Order: How the Manifest World UnfoldsIncluded
  • 2.5Cosmology, Consciousness, and the Holomovement (Chapters 6–7)Included
3

Thought As A System: How Conditioned Thinking Fragments Reality

Works through Bohm and Krishnamurti's dialogue text to expose the systemic, self-reinforcing nature of conditioned thought and its perceptual consequences.

  • 3.1Thought Is a System, Not a ToolIncluded
  • 3.2Proprioception of Thought: Seeing Thought in the Act of ThinkingIncluded
  • 3.3How Fragmented Thought Produces Collective DysfunctionIncluded
  • 3.4Soma-Significance: The Body, Meaning, and the Implicate OrderIncluded
  • 3.5Insight vs. Accumulated Knowledge: Breaking the Mechanical LoopIncluded
4

The Holomovement as Applied Lens: Field-Specific Translations

Trains students to translate implicate order thinking into practical, non-fragmented frameworks within their own professional and creative domains.

  • 4.1Mapping the Holomovement onto Your FieldIncluded
  • 4.2Implicate Order in Therapy and HealingIncluded
  • 4.3Implicate Order in Education and LearningIncluded
  • 4.4Implicate Order in Design, Systems, and CreativityIncluded
  • 4.5Implicate Order in Science and Research PracticeIncluded
5

Bohmian Dialogue: Suspension, Coherence, and Collective Intelligence

Teaches Bohm's dialogue principles as a facilitated human technology for surfacing assumptions, dissolving fragmentation, and enabling genuine collective thinking.

  • 5.1What Dialogue Is — and What It Is NotIncluded
  • 5.2The Art of Suspension: Holding Assumptions Without Acting on ThemIncluded
  • 5.3Facilitating a Dialogue Session: Structure, Space, and ListeningIncluded
  • 5.4Collective Coherence and the Emergence of Shared MeaningIncluded
6

Personal Epistemology: Building Your Implicate Order Framework

Supports students in constructing a durable, personally integrated epistemological framework grounded in implicate order thinking for navigating complexity and uncertainty.

  • 6.1Auditing Your Existing Assumptions About RealityIncluded
  • 6.2From Fragmented Knowing to Enfolded UnderstandingIncluded
  • 6.3Navigating Uncertainty and Complexity Without FragmentationIncluded
  • 6.4Designing Your Personal Epistemological MapIncluded
  • 6.5Living the Question: Implicate Order Thinking as Ongoing PracticeIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

Depth-seeking therapists

You work with fragmentation in the consulting room every day and want a rigorous theoretical ground for understanding how conditioned thought perpetuates the suffering you witness — and how soma-significance and implicate order thinking might point toward something deeper than symptom relief.

Independent philosophers

You have read widely in philosophy of mind and metaphysics and find yourself unconvinced by both physicalist reductionism and idealist alternatives — Bohm's ontological framework, carefully worked through, is the serious engagement with the hard problem you have been looking for.

Systems designers & strategists

You design complex systems — organizational, digital, urban, or social — and you are tired of the fragmentation that siloes your thinking; applying the holomovement as a practical lens is the upgrade your methodology has been missing.

Educators & curriculum builders

You believe learning is fundamentally about coherence rather than content delivery, and you want a non-fragmented framework — grounded in Bohm's own thinking on dialogue and wholeness — that can transform how you structure learning environments and conversations.

Scientists & researchers

You work inside a scientific discipline and feel the pressure of paradigm boundaries; Bohm's chapter-by-chapter argument from quantum mechanics to the implicate order will give you conceptual tools to think about your research practice from outside its inherited assumptions.

Serious independent learners

You have tried reading Bohm alone and found the ideas transformative but the argument elusive — you need a structured, guided reconstruction of the texts that honors their difficulty and doesn't flatten them into soundbites.

Questions

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Your teacher

A note from your teacher

JR

Joseph Riggio

If you are reading this, I suspect you already know the feeling I am describing.

You have read enough physics to sense that something extraordinary is being gestured at — and enough philosophy to know that the conventional interpretations stop well short of what the evidence actually demands. You have worked in your field long enough to see how fragmented thinking reproduces fragmented outcomes, how the deepest problems — in therapy rooms, in institutions, in collaborative work, in your own mind — seem to circle without resolution because the categories being used to address them are themselves part of the problem. You are not looking for another introduction to quantum weirdness, and you are not looking for pop-philosophy. You are looking for something rigorous enough to actually change the structure of how you think.

That is precisely what David Bohm offers — and precisely what The Bohm Institute is designed to give you access to.

Bohm's work is not difficult because it is obscure. It is difficult because it is genuinely radical. The claim that information — not matter, not energy — is the primary ground of reality is not a metaphor or a spiritual intuition. It is a carefully argued ontological position, grounded in the anomalies of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of wholeness, with consequences that run all the way from cosmology to the nature of thought to how we sit in a room together and speak. To understand it properly, you need to work through the argument as Bohm actually makes it — chapter by chapter, concept by concept — and then you need to learn to see with it, to use it as a lens rather than merely an idea you have encountered.

That is what we do here. We work through Wholeness and the Implicate Order with the care it deserves — tracing the rheomode, the implicate and explicate orders, the holomovement, the relationship between consciousness and cosmos. We work through Thought As A System to understand how conditioned thinking fragments perception and perpetuates the very dysfunctions it attempts to solve. We then turn outward, translating the holomovement into the specific domains where you work and live — therapy, design, education, science, collaborative practice. And we close by building something you keep: your own epistemological framework, grounded in implicate order thinking, for navigating the complexity and uncertainty that no fragmented map can adequately hold.

I want to be honest with you about what this is and what it is not. This is not a school that will make Bohm easy. It will make him accessible — which is a different thing. The ideas will ask something of you. What I can promise is that they will give back far more than they ask. If you are ready to engage seriously, I am ready to guide you through. The inquiry is open. Come in.

Joseph Riggio

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