Journey are never separate events
THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS A SINGLE UNDIVIDED WHOLE
"Thought of the Week" for
August 17, 1998
Wholeness in quantum physics even includes
the experimental apparatus by which measurements are made. Beyond
this, it includes the entire context of the experiment: the
laboratory, the experimenters themselves, and so on. Quantum
physicist David Bohm has observed, "Ultimately, the entire universe
(with all its particles, including those constituting human beings,
their laboratories, observing instruments, etc.) has to be
understood as a single undivided whole, in which analysis into
separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental
status." [Bohm quote from Wholeness and the implicate order,
Combs,
Comment:
Our journeys are part
of the whole
by Reg Harris
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Bohm's observation echoes the beliefs of most
eastern philosophies. More importantly, in the context of the hero's
journey, it implies that our journeys, as individual as they may
seem, are really just one activity of the whole system of life. This
would also support the concept of synchronistic help coming to those
who have accepted the call and stepped over the threshold.