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14. THE FINITE, THEINFINITE, AND THE DESTINYSTATE

THIS ENERGY, OR SPIRIT, INFUSES ALL LIVING BEINGS, AND WITHOUT IT ANY ORGANISM MUST FALL APART INTO ITS CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS.– David Bohm

The next morning, David convened the meeting by reading a short piece Bohm had written in 1987 to be read at the memorial service for a lifelong friend, a classmate of Bohm’s at Penn State University. The piece was later read at Bohm’s own memorial service at Birkbeck College:

The field of the finite is all that we can see, hear, touch, remember, and describe. This field is basically that which is manifest, or tangible. The essential quality of the infinite, by contrast, is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conveyed in the word spirit, whose root ...