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The essential features of the implicate order are, that the whole universe is in some way enfolded in everything, and that each thing is enfolded in the whole. 17
This is the fundamental statement of a holographic ordering of the universe. It says that, like a hologram, each region of space-time contains information about every other point in space-time. And our data indicate that this information is available to consciousness. Bohm continues:
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. . . all of this implies a thoroughgoing wholeness, in which mental and physical sides participate very closely in each other. Likewise, intellect, emotion, and the whole state of the body are in a similar flux of fundamental participation. Thus, there is no real division between mind and matter, psyche and soma. The common term psychosomatic is in this way seen to be misleading, as it suggests the Cartesian notion of two distinct substances in some kind of interaction.18
This is Bohm's rejection of any kind of mind-body dualism. Bohm considers physics to be comprehensive enough to embrace consciousness. And moreover, it is consciousness that comes to the fore to solve many of the so-called observational paradoxes in quantum mechanics:
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Extending this view, we see that each human being similarly participates in an inseparable way in society and the planet as a whole. What may be suggested further is that such participation goes on to a greater collective mind, and perhaps ultimately to some yet more comprehensive mind, in principle capable of going indefinitely beyond even the human species as a whole.19
In the holographic universe of David Bohm, there is a unity of consciousness, a "greater collective mind," with no boundaries of space or time. Similarly, we believe that our psychic abilities offer us one way of experiencing this world of nonlocal mind, or community of spirit. Remote viewing reveals to us a part of our spiritual reality, but it is only a tiny part of the total spiritual spectrum.

 
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