Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion th… - David Bohm

older theories become more and more unclear when one tries to use them to obtain insight into new domains.

Bohm suggests that while literal thought has been predominant since the inception of civilization, a more archaic form of perception, formed over the whole of human evolution, remains latent – and at times active – in the structure of our consciousness. This he refers to as “participatory thought,” a mode of thought in which discrete boundaries are sensed as permeable, objects have an underlying relationship with one another, and the movement of the perceptible world is sensed as participating in some vital essence. Even today, says Bohm, many tribal cultures maintain aspects of participatory thought.

both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one whole reality, which is indivisible and unanalysable.