August 1, 2020 – Infinite Potential: Exploring the Life and Work of David Bohm—Summer Series 2020: In 1992, a few months before his death, David Bohm visited the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he had been made a Fetzer fellow. This coincided with the visit of a circle of Native American elders and Western scientists. This meeting was important to Bohm for several of the participants spoke the strongly verb-based Algonquin family of languages and they discussed their worldview of constant flux and change. Bohm had long considered the role that a verb-based language (that he named the rheomode) would play in the way we perceive the world; he was now able to see it in action and, in particular, he held a number of discussions with Leroy Little Bear of the Blackfoot confederacy. Leroy relates his encounter with Bohm, the fascination that Bohm had for the Algonquin language and the process-based worldview of the Blackfoot—Bohm finally felt he had found a people whose metaphysics mirrored his own. Leroy Little Bear is a Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge, Canada.

Length: 1 hour and 40 mins