13. JOURNEY TO PARI

THE REALITY WHICH IS MOST IMMEDIATE TO US CANNOT BE STATED.– David Bohm

The letter was from F. David Peat, a noted physicist and author with whom I had corresponded over the years. David was a friend and colleague of David Bohm for more than twenty years. Together they wrote Science, Order and Creativity. David was writing to invite me to a conference on “The Legacy of David Bohm” to be held at the Pari Center in the medieval hilltop village of Pari, Italy, south of Siena, in June of 2008. The meeting would take place as a roundtable of about fifteen people to encourage open discussion, he said, and would begin with a short technical session for the physicists and mathematicians. It would then open out to a discussion of the ...

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