THE HOLOMOVEMENT

Separate human bodies do not possess independent, autonomous motion through "space". What people usually perceive (in the Fragmentary Perception of thought) as an individual person walking through space is only a projection of thought. What happens in reality is the unitary Wholeness in constant motion, unfolding and enfolding itself.

1. Motion as the Expression of the Whole

In classical physics, isolated objects exist independently and push against each other in space. Physicist David Bohm inverted this picture entirely: movement is primary, and "things" are secondary abstractions.

• The Illusion of Local Motion: At the fundamental level of the Implicate Order, all "things" enfold back into the total fabric of reality. At the next instant, the total fabric unfolds (re-creates) an updated expression of every "thing".

• The True Actor: What moves "from here to there" is not an isolated piece of matter, but the entire unbroken flow of reality - what Bohm called "Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement".

2. Free Will and "What Is"

If reality is an undivided, unbroken unitary movement, the classical concept of individual free will - an autonomous ego sitting inside a brain making independent choices - is a psychological illusion.

Bohm argued that this illusion is generated by thought:

1. The Division of Self: Thought creates an imaginary boundary, declaring "I am inside this skin, and the universe is outside" (the Horizontal Conflict).

2. The Illusion of Control: Thought then imagines that this internal "I" is an independent supervisor directing action, choosing between future possibilities.

3. The Reality of "what Is": In truth, the thought that says "I choose" is itself just another enfolded wave arising spontaneously out of the Implicate Order. There is no separate thinker behind the thought, and no separate actor behind the action.

When Bohm (and his close dialogical partner Jiddu Krishnamurti) spoke of "what is," they meant the unitary (undivided), dynamic state of reality in the present moment. Striving to goals and wanting for reality to be different than "what is" creates the imaginary Horizontal Conflict. Recognizing that "all that can be is what is" dissolves the illusion that a separate "me" could have chosen otherwise.

3. Does This Mean Reality Is Rigid Determinism?

Saying individual free will is an illusion does not mean Bohm’s Universe is a cold, mechanistic clockwork machine. The Universe is a constant dynamic transformation of energy that is always new unitary Wholeness.

• Mechanical Determinism vs. Creative Unfoldment: Classical clockwork determinism assumes separate billiard balls striking each other. Bohm rejected this description because the "objects" that thought and classical physics see as separate parts are not really separate at all.

In Unitary Perception the illusion of the Horizontal Conflict (subject - object) produced by thought disappears.

But  is there even anything unchanging that moves through "time", which continues from "moment to moment" or that is also only an approximation and an illusion produced by thought?  

IS THERE FREE WILL?

Physics: The Spectrum of Determinism

The Block Universe (Relativity): If space and time form a static four-dimensional continuum, the future already exists at fixed geometric coordinates. Under strict physical determinism, your decisions are the inevitable consequence of prior physical conditions.  

Quantum Indeterminacy: Quantum mechanics introduces fundamental probability via wave function collapse, breaking classical determinism. However, acting randomly is not the same as acting with intentional agency.  

Bohmian Holokinesis: In David Bohm's framework, individual volition is an explicate projection of the undivided whole. Choice is not an isolated ego acting on space, but the Universe unfolding a specific potential out of the Implicate Order.

Neuroscience: The Search for the "I", the "doer"

Unconscious Antecedents: Neuroscientific experiments demonstrate that neural readiness potentials build up in the brain up to seconds before a person becomes consciously aware of their decision to act.  

Biological Determinism: Thinkers like Robert Sapolsky argue that every choice is bound by prior neurobiology, genetics, and environment. The conscious feeling of willing an action is an downstream narrative constructed by the brain after the neural cascade has begun.  

If free will requires an isolated ego operating outside the causal fabric of the universe, it is an illusion. However, if free will is understood as the total Universe expressing choice through a localized center of awareness, action arises naturally from the Wholeness. When the illusion of being a solitary divided "doer" dissolves, the reality is the movement of the unitary undivided Universe.

A "decision" is a consequence of that what is. There is no "choice".

It's not only that there is a program/conditioning in the brain but the body/brain function in specific conditions and circumstances. For example one hospital is 1km away, and another 5km away. But the hospital that is further away is a modern one and I have a car. So the decision is to go to the modern one further away.

Can we call the movement of all the conditions and circumstances (which include the neuronal program/conditioning in the brain) the Universe?

David Bohm said: "All that can be is what is." There is only ONE unitary transforming movement of the Universe! It just is so, it has nothing to do with what I want, wish, desire or do ("my will :). If you don't understand the profound significance of that, you have not grasped it yet :) It is the opposite of what people usually think (the me, the I, the divided entity is who decides between this or that). It is not so! It is always the whole Universe moving! It is because there IS only the whole unitary Universe :)

But there is this persistent illusion produced by thought, called the me, the I, the ego, the horizontal conflict that says/thinks: "it is me doing this or that. It is I!" :)

 IT WAS NOT ME! :)

It is sure that there is no continuity (the "me"). It's a false movement produced by thought (and even given a name! :)

To be cont..

 "MAGIC"

They say that if you meet a ghost, you should ask the bugger for a loan :)

Does "magic" or "miracles" like a miraculous multiplication work in math? Why not?

5 x 5 = 500 for example, it would be great for our bankrupt economy. :)

We have to tell that to the minister of finance! :)

 THE "REAL" SELF.. NOT.

Some people talk about a "real, true or deep self".. observing or doing something. That is not so.

In the true movement of reality there is no saying: "I am That". In the true movement of reality there is no language, time or self (the horizontal conflict).

So in that instant when it is said: "I am That", it is only thought doing its play of identifying itself with something. So it's not true.

The truth is that when That is (the contact with the Universal energy in the brain), you are not. When you are, That (the contact with the Universal energy) is not.

 THE HORIZONTAL CONFLICT: THE MECHANISM OF ILLUSORY FRAGMENTATION

In the fragmentary perception of thought reality is broken into "objects", which are identified, named and compartmentalized. This broken reality is a persistent recurring hypnotic fictional continuity produced by thought.

Other terms that can be applied to the fragmentary perception can be: the Horizontal Conflict, the Self, the I, the observer/ perceiver/ thinker/ controller. The reactions of this META process of thought are more thought.

This fragmentary perception is incomplete because the Self/ the I/ the perceiver is not included in the perception. Only the its objects are perceived (that what is observed - the observed).

Unitary Perception is the complete perception, which includes all that is happening: the perceived AND the perceiver (a product of thought).

In fact there are not two, the perceiver and the perceived. There is only one unitary movement and when that is realized, it means that the limited energy of thought has dissolved in the unlimited unitary Universal flowing movement (without a division/ fragmentation, control or a goal).

This complete flowing Unitary Perception is the primary function of the brain. UP is reflecting the reality that is not fragmented, because it's free of the horizontal conflict, the fragmentation of thought (into the self and not self). The fragmentation is the essence of suffering and problems.

The entity put together by memories (memory) called the "me", the self, the I is an illusion and the suffering and the problem. Its continuity is imaginary.

In fact there is only a transformation, one unitary flow of the Universal transforming energy and nothing that is not transforming, an unchanging "observer" is an illusion produced by thought.

The fragmentary false movement of clinging/ attachment and aversion, pleasure, fear and sorrow, means living in the "future", becoming, time, so not really living in the Universe of energy but in the hypnotic projection of thought.

UP is not an escape from the mechanism of thought, because all thought with its products (Horizontal Conflict, purpose, goal, pleasure, fear, sorrow, the self, self-pity, my will, effort, time, expectation, etc.) is enveloped in UP.

UP is the contact of the brain with the unitary energy of the Universe.

The fragmentary perception of thought is the contact with thought and its products.

ON MOTION

 

In David Bohm’s theory of the Holomovement (or Holokinesis), conventional movement from one isolated point in space to another ("from here to there") is not a fundamental reality. It is a secondary, surface manifestation.

At the deepest level of reality, there is only the Holomovement—the unbroken, non-local activity of total enfoldment and unfoldment of the entire universe.

1. The Surface Level: Motion "From Here to There" (Explicate Order)

What we perceive as an object moving through space from point A to point B belongs to the Explicate (unfolded) Order. In classical physics, an entity sits "here," travels through pre-existing space, and arrives "there."

In Bohm’s view, this spatial translation is only a kind of a projection created by a deeper process, much like a frame-by-frame film reel projected on a screen. The image on the screen appears to move across space, but in reality, each frame is being projected anew from a single source.

2. The Fundamental Level: Holokinesis (Implicate Order)

At the primary, Implicate (enfolded) Order, space and time are not external containers. An electron does not slide through space from "here" to "there". Instead:

• The electron at "here" enfolds back into the total fabric of the Universe (the Implicate Ground/ Order).

• An instant later, the universe unfolds a new manifestation of that electron at "there".

Because "here" and "there" are both enfolded within the same unitary undivided Wholeness, the movement is not a localized jump across a void, but a continuous re-creation of the Whole.

Bohm’s Ink Drop Analogy

To visualize this, Bohm used the metaphor of a droplet of ink suspended in a cylinder of viscous glycerine:

1. Enfoldment: When the cylinder is rotated, the ink droplet stretches out until it completely disappears into the glycerine. The drop is not destroyed; it is enfolded into the whole medium.

2. Unfoldment: When rotated in reverse, the ink droplet draws back together and reappears as a localized dot.

3. Apparent Motion: If you enfold a series of ink drops at slightly different positions and then unroll the cylinder rapidly, the dots will unfold one after another. To an observer, it looks like a single ink drop is moving from left to right across space.

In Bohmian physics, localized movement from "here to there" is an apparency. The fundamental reality is that there is only the Holomovement - he Universe perpetually folding into itself and unfolding into the Explicate Order of  "form".