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Converging themes between wholeness and the implicate order and the reflexve universe
Three independent frameworks — Bohm's implicate/explicate ontology, Arthur Young's reflexive arc of evolution, and what a 2026 ResearchGate paper formalises as Reflexive Monism — converge on a single hidden premise: consciousness and matter are dual aspects of one self-knowing process, not separate substances. The convergence is not accidental; Bohm corresponded with Krishnamurti and drew explicitly on Vedantic non-dual frameworks, while Young built his reflexive arc on the same primordial turn toward self-reference. Where Bohm calls the ground 'holomovement,' Young calls it 'light' — both mean an undivided, pre-geometric substrate that folds into time to know itself.
Evidence
- David Bohm's 1980 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order' argues that the explicate world of particles and separateness is a secondary unfolding from a deeper implicate order — an enfolded totality he called the holomovement — which is in perpetual, undivided flux.
- Arthur Young's 'The Reflexive Universe' (1976) maps evolution as a seven-stage arc that descends from pure freedom (photon/light) through increasing constraint (particle, atom, molecule, plant, animal) and then reflexively returns upward, with the human nervous system as the pivot point of self-awareness.
- Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism and Federico Faggin's work on consciousness as a fundamental field offer contemporary scientific scaffolding for both.
- Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance adds a further convergence: if fields carry memory non-locally and causation runs backward as well as forward (his 'morphic fields' spanning time), then the reflexive loop Young diagrams becomes a physical rather than merely metaphysical claim.
- A November 2025 relational ontology reading of Bohm reframes the implicate order not as 'depth' but as 'structured potential of relation itself,' with the explicate as perspectival actualisation — a subtle but important shift that moves Bohm's model closer to Young's reflexive grammar without abandoning either.