David Bohm (1917-1992) was an American scientist whose main concern was to understand the nature of reality and consciousness. He was the Professor of theoretical physics at London University 1961 - 1986. Bohm wrote several books and held seminars in Europe and America

Books

• Unfolding meaning: A weekend of dialogue with David Bohm (1985)
  
• Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political and Environmental Crises Facing our World (a dialogue of words and images with Mark Edwards 1991)
• Thought as a System (1992)
• Paavo Pylkkänen: Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order (2007)
  
• F. David Peat: The Life and Times of David Bohm (1996)
• Olival Freire Junior: David Bohm A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World (Springer 2019)
• Heikki Peltola: Whole and One - Seeing and Being the World (2020)

Interviews and seminars

2.9.1978 Evelyn Blau interview

26.5.1979 David Suzuki interview CBC Canadian Radio

27.4.1983 Parts of the whole (Michael Toms interview on New Dimensions)

OJAI SEMINAR October 1986 (7 audios)
Disk 1 (1:06:22)
Disk 2 (48:06)
Disk 3 Meaning of meaning (1:01:11)
Disk 4 Assumptions (1:14:13)
Disk 5 (1:10:07)
Disk 6 (1:16:41)
Disk 7 (53:18)

OJAI SEMINAR November 1986 (11 audios)

Disk 1-2 Insight, creativity and assumptions (1:20:59)
Disk 3-4 Old and new brain (1:55:37)
Disk 5-6 (1:49:12)
Disk 7-8 (2:00:49)
Disk 9-11 Concept of concept (2:03:17)

12.1.1987 Creativity, natural philosophy and science (Michael Toms on New Dimensions) (47:39)

OJAI SEMINAR November 1987 (9 audios)

6.11.1987 Disk 1 (57:28)
7.11.1987 Disk 2 Why do we deceive ourselves? (1:02:08)
7.11.1987 Disk 3 Process of thought (50:51)
7.11.1987 Disk 4 (1:12:35)
7.11.1987 Disk 5 (44:48)
8.11.1987 Disk 6-7 What is value? (42:17)
8.11.1987 Disk 8 Value judgments (1:02:09)
8.11.1987 Disk 9 Limits of division (1:16:37)

OJAI SEMINAR November 1988 (11 audios)

11.11.1988 Disk 1-3 (1:33:12)
12.11.1988 Disk 4-5 (1:40:15)
12.11.1988 Disk 6-7 (2:24:57)
13.11.1988 Disk 8 (1:00:59)
13.11.1988 Disk 9 I'm and me (46:04)
13.11.1988 Disk 10-11 (2:23:30)

OJAI SEMINAR December 1988 (10 audios)*

Disk 1 37:54*
Disk 2 46:17*
Disk 3 1:03:14*
Disk 4 40:53*
Disk 5 1:07:12*
Disk 6 1:10:54*
Disk 7
Disk 8 43:56*
Disk 9 1:10:45*
Disk 10 1:19:44*

1989 Copenhagen interview at Niels Bohr Institute (48:29)

1989 OJAI SEMINAR November 1989 (10 audios)
3.11.1989 Disk 1-2 (1:27:17)
4.11.1989 Disk 3 Something beyond thought (1:06:42)
4.11.1989 Disk 4 Abstract and Concrete (1:07:22)
4.11.1989 Disk 5 What is source of thought? (1.00:12)
4.11.1989 Disk 6 Soma-Significance and Signa-Somatic (45:00)
5.11.1989 Disk 7 (1:05:28)
5.11.1989 Disk 8 Breath and spirit (41:50)
5.11.1989 Disk 9 Thought and whole system (58:09)
5.11.1989 Disk 10 What is nature of being? (1:19:27)

1989 BOHM CONSCIOUSNESS SEMINAR December 1989 (10 audios)

1.12.1989 Disk 1 (51:37)
1.12.1989 Disk 2 (43:24)
2.12.1989 Disk 3 (1:00:27)
2.12.1989 Disk 4 (48:52)
2.12.1989 Disk 5 (1:07:41)
2.12.1989 Disk 6 (1:04:21)
3.12.1989 Disk 7 (1:04:30)
3.12.1989 Disk 8 (47:42)
3.12.1989 Disk 9 (1:18:08)
3.12.1989 Disk 10 (1:02:48

1990 kevät Bill Angelos at Niels Bohr Institute for Dutch tv (1:07:26)

12.6.1990 Toward wholeness (Michael Toms interview on New Dimensions) (54:00)

12.6.1990 Essential reality (Michael Toms interview on New Dimensions) (52:06)

Art meets science & spirituality in a changing economy (49:38)

The Millenium Interview

David Bohm seminar November 1990 (11 audios)

Disk 1 45:06*
Disk 2 42:21*
Disk 3 1:07:19*
Disk 4 1:07:07*
Disk 5 1:02:21*
Disk 6 46:31*
Disk 7 1:06:56*
Disk 8 43:25*
Disk 9 59:10*
Disk 10 1:19:50*

THOUGHT AS A SYSTEM Ojai seminar 1990 (10 audios, 7 videos)
30.11.1990 Video 1 Friday evening (1:39:44)
1.12.1990 Video 2 Saturday morning (1:51:48)
1.12.1990 Video 3 Saturday afternoon (1:55:19)
2.12.1990 Video 4 Sunday morning (1:49:07)
2.12.1990 Video 5 Sunday afternoon 1 (1:40:17)
2.12.1990 Video 6 Sunday afternoon 2 (23:55)

1992 OJAI SEMINAR March 1992

20.3.1992 Audio 1 (50:55)
20.3.1992 Audio 2 (41:16)
21.3.1992 Audio 3 (1:07:19)
21.3.1992 Audio 4 (48:00)
21.3.1992 Audio 5 Thought requires attention (1:14:08)
21.3.1992 Audio 6 Staying with the fact (58:42)
22.3.1992 Audio 7 Act to attend (1:17:44)
22.3.1992 Audio 8 (52:14)
22.3.1992 Audio 9 Flowing movement of meaning (1:09:58)
22.3.1992 Audio 10 Ground of existence (1:16:03)
* not published

Discussions with Krishnamurti 1965-1983

1965 Thought, stillness and time
15.8. Is thought detrimental?
18.8. Am I aware of the process of thinking?
21.8. What will make me see that thought breeds frustration?
24.8. From where do attachment and detachment come from?
25.8. A complete stillness
29.8. When the mind is completely quiet, how can there be time?

1972 Discussion on Intelligence
7.10. On intelligence

1975 Truth, actuality and the limits of thought
18.5. Reality, actuality, truth
24.5. Seeing 'what is' is action
31.5. Thought cannot bring about an insight
14.6. How does desire arise from perception?
22.6. Attention implies that there is no center
28.6. Perceiving without a perceiver
18.7. If thought cannot achieve, why should it suffer?
25.7. What is the substance of thought?
6.8. Is there in the brain anything untouched by culture?
27.9. Truth does not belong to an individual
4.10. What is wisdom which is not a movement of thought?
11.10. Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion?

1976 Transformation of Man
17.5. Are we aware that we are fragmented?
18.5. A mechanical way of living leads to disorder
18.5. Can I completely change at the very root?
19.5. In aloneness you can be completely secure
19.5. Your image of yourself prevents relationship with others
20.5. Any form of image prevents the beauty of relationship
20.5. Life is sacred
21.5. Introduction

1978 Dialogues with Buddhist scholars
22.6. We are all caught in the idea of progress
23.6. Can we live without identifying?
23.6. Does free will exist?

1980 The Ending of Time
1.4. The roots of psychological conflict
2.4. Cleansing the mind of the accumulation of time
8.4. Why we give supreme importance to thought?
10.4. Breaking the pattern of egocentric activity
12.4. The ground of being and the mind of man
15.4. Can insight bring about a mutation of the brain cells?
17.4. Death has very little meaning
19.4. Can insight be awakened in another?
1.6. Senility and the brain cells
7.6. Cosmic order
14.9. The liberation of insight
16.9. The intelligence of love
18.9. The ending of psychological knowledge
20.9. The mind in the universe
27.9. Can problems be solved and fragmentation end?

1981 Discussion with Asit Chandmal
1.4.1981 Anatomy of insight

1982 Discussion with Maurice Wilkins
12.2.1982 The difficulty of thinking together

1982 The Nature of the Mind
16.4.1982 Roots of psychological disorder
17.4.1982 Psychological suffering
17.4.1982 The need for security
18.4.1982 What is a healthy mind?

1983 The future of humanity
11.6. Is there an action not touched by thought?
20.6. Is there evolution of consciousness?

Bohm & Krishnamurti

Insights into Immensity (book)
Bohm and Krishnamurti (Krishnamurti Foundation Trust)

Recommended links

The Conditioned Self: J Krishnamurti, David Bohm, and Saral Bohm
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm (Paul Howard documentary)
David Bohm Society
The Pari Center