ABSTRACT
The cosmological speculations of physicist David Bohm represent among other things a probe into what might become the postmodern world of tomorrow. The world of modernity, which Alvin Toffler dubs 'the second wave', has dominated Western consciousness since the Enlightenment. That wave is receding now and leaving on the beach the debris of abstract thinking, compartmentalized knowledge, warring specialisms, fragmented facts and a general sense of alienation between human consciousness and wider reality. A new, third wave is about to break upon us, and we are thirsting for it. What we desire is synthetic thinking, a putting back together what we have rent apart. 1 In short, the thirst for postmodernity is the thirst for a renewed sense of the whole.
