What It Means To Be Post-Cartesian

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead

William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell

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David Bohm and “Domains of Relevance”

I haven’t made a secret of my admiration for physicist David Bohm as being exemplary of the kind of new integral consciousness anticipated by Jean Gebser in his Ever-Present Origin. So I want to briefly indicate how that new consciousness is being embodied and coming to the fore in David Bohm.

Time, Modernity and Madness

When you think about it, the omission of time as a constituent of our reality until Einstein is quite astonishing. But that is what the three-dimensional universe did. Reality was deemed to be a structure (or ratio) of only three-dimensions of space — length, width and depth. This is the essential character of what Gebser calls “perspectival consciousness”, and it is space-dominated and space-obsessed. It also became a method of thinking with Descartes and his coordinate geometry. Time became “the unconscious”.