Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1, Weekend 2: Exploring a Bohmian Poetics
July 11 @ 6:00 pm – July 12 @ 8:00 pm CEST
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Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics
Exploring a Bohmian Poetics
With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman, Hester Reeve, Richard Burg & friends
Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, 2026
9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST
2 two-hour sessions
All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.
Reaching back into antiquity, the notion of poiesis has a long and rich history. Originally it alluded to โcreation,โ as in an art object, or poetry. In contemporary usage poiesis has come to indicate the movement by which something emerges from concealment into living presence, and the degree to which that movement expresses truth, or wholeness. This could be a carving, or a cloud, or an automobile, or a concept.
This weekend we will take up three questions. First, in what ways can we think of David Bohmโs framework of implicate and explicate orders as poiesis, as revealing the coming-into-being of the human and natural worlds? Second, in what ways are human beings participants in this implicate/explicate movement of poiesis? And finally, the poetics: how can we think about and embody these questions โ what can literature, song, painting, conversation, philosophy, and contemplative arts reveal about unfolding meaning?
Our intention here is long-term โ to open up multiple new ways of experiencing and expressing the arc of David Bohmโs lifework. As in our first weekend, friends who are exploring this territory will join us and share their perspectives.
2 Hours, including Q & A
Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohmโs On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.
Leeโs latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohmโs metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.
Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.
Hester Reeve is an artist whose practice encompasses live art, drawing, sculpture, poetry and David Bohmโs ‘Dialogue.’ Venues hosting public works include former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, LIVE Biennale Vancouver, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland, Tate Britain (under the umbrella of The Emily Davison Lodge), Philosophy on Stage at Halle G Vienna, Nirox Sculpture Park South Africa and, most recently, Flat Time House London (as part of the group /origin\forward/slash\ and in association with The Centre for Philosophy and Art, Kings College). The first monograph of her work, Ymedaca, was published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2015.
Hester is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. She is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing), and is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.
Richard Burg
In 2003 I retired from consulting, my fourth career (IT, potter, Continuing Medical Education research). My company Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment โ engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals.
In 1990 I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour, multi-day introduction to Bohmโs experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts โ most recently, like many, in online dialogues, before and during the covid pandemic.
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