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Physicist/philosopher David
Bohm gives us a wonderful name
for God (the nature of Reality):
WHOLENESS.
In his book, Wholeness and the
Implicate Order, Bohm concludes
that WHOLENESS is the best way to
describe the Reality we all have
to work with. Wholeness, he says,
is implicit (inherent) in the
order of Reality.
Making use of the example of
the hologram and what even goes
beyond it, he speaks of Life in
terms of the "holomovement."
Wholeness is the God-movement in
you and me and all that is! (In
the hologram, through a complex
procedure, a whole picture is
revealed in every tiny part of a
photograph. It is used to
illustrate Wholeness as
undivided.)
He makes it clear, as the
Unity teachings do, that
Wholeness does not mean
"complete." The completeness, the
expression and manifestation, is
up to us, what we do with Life's
quantum possibilities.
This has a wonderful
relationship to spiritual
healing, one of Unity's foremost
interests. As Unity has always
asserted, Bohm agrees that
Wholeness cannot be damaged. It
simply can be neglected, not
realized, not acted upon. The
term "damaged" is often used in
speaking of the effects, the
trauma, of the failure to express
the principle of Wholeness. The
principle of Wholeness, when
expressed, reverses and heals the
human damage. The principle of
Wholeness is the principle of
healing!
A familiar statement is "If it
ain't broke, don't fix it." We
need to know that if it is broke,
it's fixable!
Intuiting that God is Perfect
and that, therefore, we should be
or can be perfect, human beings
get down on themselves for
seeming failures and inadequate
performance and behavior. We
interpret the Adam and Eve story
as saying "stay with the
perfection of the Garden or all
is lost." The story attempts to
teach us not to believe in evil,
meaning opposite to good, to
health, to Wholeness. We are
learning SLOWLY that we are able
to deal with what seems to be
evil, imperfect, adversial. No
matter what, it can be healed.
No apparent damage can do
anything to violate our eternal
Wholeness!
Don
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