J.Krishnamurthi & physicist David Bohm ~ 1984

In the late 1970s, another physicist stepped up to the plate, bearing credentials that made Capra look like an undergrad by comparison. David Bohm had done his graduate work at Berkeley under Oppenheimer and taught at Princeton when Einstein was on campus. He was also influenced by his two-decade-long dialogue with J. Krishnamurthi. Bohm theorized that the domain we think of reality, with its separate objects and events, is actually enfolded within (and unfolds from) a realm of unbroken wholeness in which everything – all of matter and all of consciousness – is simultaneously connected to everything else. “The sphere of ordinary material life and sphere of mystical experience,” said Bohm, “have a certain shared order [that] will allow a fruitful relationship between them”

Bohm theory evoked a compelling image: the hologram, in which each piece of the whole is mirrored in every other piece. Another Vedic visual now came into use: Indra’s Net, a vast network of jewels, each of which reflects the image of all the others. Throughout the 1980s, as Reagan reigned in Washington, conversations about the “holographic universe” and the “holographic paradigm” ranged over a variety of disciplines. Many of the participants had been influenced by Eastern philosophy, and now their ideas were heard by the public. ~ Page 287/288 (American Veda – Philip Goldberg)