Wholeness is a Way of Looking

"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 meaning." -- Physicist David Bohm, from Wholeness and the Implicate Order

I've been noticing how I view the world a lot lately.  Paying attention to who (or Who) is looking.  There is the habitual fragmented, divided self with its ongoing life story.  This self sees a fragmented, divided world that is always full of drama and resolution, of desire and fulfillment or disappointment.  This self sees everything as desirable or undesirable, as safe or scary, as clean or unclean, healthy or unhealthy, etc.  But when I relax the rigid conditioning that has produced this fragmented fiction, I am suddenly looking through the utterly natural eyes of Self. 

This Self is Whole, in the sense that it embraces and includes everything.  It sees the world through a lens of Wholeness, and so balance and harmony is what is seen, an interwoven and interpenetrating dance of Wholeness.  As David Bohm wrote in his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Wholeness is a way of looking. 

We have to let go of the conditioned lens of judgment and fragmentation in order to access this entirely natural, and ultimately true way of looking at the world.  We're not talking about physical sight here... physical perception is simply a projection of the conceptual lens we're using.  Wholeness as a way of looking is a conscious awareness, just as fragmented perception is a way of looking that is largely unconscious conditioning.  When it becomes conscious, the lens (awareness) of Wholeness is naturally revealed.

How do we know that this is true, that Wholeness is Reality?  David Bohm explains it with quantum physics.  But I suggest that you simply try it.  As I said at the beginning of this blog, I've been paying attention to who, or Who is looking.  And that makes all the difference.