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538 STRIPPING THE GURUS
Of course, whether higher states of consciousness and
subtler degrees of matter actually exist, or are mere artifacts
of psychoses or of other inabilities to distinguish between
reality and one’s own fantasies, is a separate question
• Bohm’s super-implicate order is fully implied by current
physics, as is the implicate order conceptually below it. As
such, in no way was the former ever merely an arbitrary,
epicycle-like addition for the purpose of correcting inaccuracies
in the first level of the implicate order, as Wilber
wrongly suggests. The super-implicate order was thus “invented”
by Bohm only in a praiseworthy way of discovery,
not a derogatory one.
Further, none of those levels of implicate order were
ever equated with nondual Spirit in Bohm’s view. Rather,
Spirit as the highest state of consciousness (and immanent
ground of all lower states) was always beyond (but suffusing)
all levels of the (relatively unmanifest, but not transcendent
Unmanifest) implicate order:
Obviously, the nonmanifest that we talk about [i.e.,
the hierarchy of implicate orders] is a relative nonmanifest.
It is still a thing, although a subtle thing
.... [W]hatever we would mean by what is beyond
matter [e.g., Spirit] we cannot grasp in thought....
However subtle matter becomes, it is not true
[G]round of all [B]eing (Bohm, in [Wilber, 1982]).
Note again that the above statement comes from the
very same book which Wilber both edited and re-printed
his own initial “strong criticism” of Bohm in.
Bohm reasonably included consciousness, thought and
emotion within his own view of “matter” (of varying degrees
of subtlety), and as such placed them all within the
implicate order(s). Nondual Spirit, however, was always
something beyond all such qualifiable orders, in his view.
That is, it was never merely the highest of Bohm’s implicate
orders, even if he occasionally spoke of those implicate
orders “shading off” into Unqualifiable Spirit
• Wilber’s suggestion that Bohm’s development of gradations
or levels in the implicate order had anything to do