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I foggily recall first learning about physicist David Bohm’s ideas in an astrophysics course (yea verily, back in the Paleozoic), but my more serious (ironically) introduction to Bohm’s work came many years later when, as I was writing my memoir of Baja California, Miraculous Air, I started to experience strings of synchronicities, including encountering a work on synchronicity which went into some detail about Bohm and his ideas! The key concepts that have stayed with me over the years are the implicate order and nonlocal consciousness. More recently, I encountered Bohm’s writings again when, apropos of my book about Francisco I. Madero’s secret book, I started to to read a ways into the life and work of mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti, who, so it turned out later in his life, became Bohm’s friend and partner in an historic series of televised dialogues exploring the nature of consciousness. All of which is by way of a gravy-wavy introduction to the just-released and superb documentary “Infinite Potential,” which, thanks to the Fetzer Memorial Trust, you can watch in its entirety for free on the film’s official YouTube channel:

Daniel Chacón’s “Words on a Wire” Podcast Interview with Yours Truly About Francisco I. Madero’s Secret Book

Notes on Stephen L. Talbott’s The Future Does Not Compute

Remembering Ann L. McLaughlin

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This morning Ingo Swann passed away after a long illness. I never met Ingo Swann but knew many people who had and perchance I crossed paths with him in the early 70s without realizing it in Palo Alto, where I went to high school and where my grandfather, chemist Frank R. Mayo, was at Stanford Research Institute when Ingo was there formulating the protocols for controlled remote viewing. Ingo’s books– already highly prized collector’s items– are genuine head-shakers. I think it would difficult for the average educated person to take them seriously, for they’re written in a confoundingly baroque style and filled with such fantastic stories and assertions, they seem to orbit a galaxy of their own. And yet, over a period of several years in the past decade, in five of Lyn Buchanan’s workshops, I learned the protocols for CRV, most of which, though later modified, were originally developed by Ingo Swann. I have two words for them: breathtaking genius. And though CRV has its practical applications, for me the value of it isn’t so much about being able to retrieve information in whatever time and space, it’s opening windows and doors and cubbyholes into one’s own mind, into exploring consciousness itself. We are, we human beings, so much more than we appear in the material world, so vastly more than mainstream Western culture yet recognizes, and Ingo Swann, eccentric as he may have been, was a consciousness pioneer in the grandest, most courageous tradition.

Remembering Ann L. McLaughlin

Great Power in One: Miss Charles Emily Wilson

On Seeing as an Artist or, Five Techniques for a Journey to Einfühlung