Bohm, David. _On Dialogue_. Routledge Great Minds. London: Routledge, 2014. # Progressive Summary # Key Points We need to be able to suspend our thinking in order to examine it. Just as we have a proprioceptive sense that allows us to know the difference between hitting ourselves and someone else hitting us, so we need to restore some kind of proprioceptive sense to thinking. # Resonances It is a pity David Bohm never had a chance to encounter Iain McGilchrist's work. He might have realized that the whole problem with thinking is that it is primarily Left Brain thinking. ## Metamodernism His idea of knowledge as something that is collectively available, that moves between people, is very similar to the Metamodernist idea of code. ## Nonviolent Communication There are some parallels to Nonviolent Communication. The attempt to slow down the process of thought, to become aware of one's feelings and how they arise, and the background assumptions responsible for them. Also the separation of observation from interpretation, is very much Bohm's idea of distinguishing presentations from representations. ## Feldenkrais > "If we have a desire for coherence we can go about it wrongly and simply try to impose coherence, rather than discovering the incoherence and dropping it." His emphasis on coherence also has some parallels to Feldenkrais. The ability to slow down, and work through the parts that are incoherent. ## Hospicing Modernity In the last chapter, he suggests that thinking itself, or at least literal thought, is limited, and that what we need is to feel reconnected to the infinite ground that is beyond thinking. He refers to this as the cosmic self. # Oppositions # Questions / Comments I want to write a science-fiction short story called The Bohm Suspension, which is about a technology that allows people to suspend their own thinking and to examine it from different perspectives. --- ![[Reference Notes/Highlights/Books/On Dialogue#Highlights]]