David Bohm on how delusion arises when we are not sensitive to incoherence.

1. We cannot grasp the totality

2. but we can have a feeling for the whole.

3. We can have the attitude

4. of not restricting ourselves to parts,

5. but to allowing our consciousness

6. to be based on the whole

7. of whatever we can experience.

8. Turn to the whole of reality

9. as far as we can

10. and go from there to the parts.

11. The parts are seen within the whole

12. rather than begin with the parts

13. and put them together like a machine.

14. We have to be sensitive

15. to incoherence.

16. Delusion arises

17. when we are not sensitive to incoherence.

18. When we overlook it.

19. If anybody claims to have evidence

20. it is always limited

21. and you can't trust it either.

22. So there is no guarantee at all.

23. We can't trust anybody

24. to tell us about these things.

25. We have a tremendous resistence

26. to acknowledge incoherence.

27. People are constantly saying

28. that 'everything is alright'

29. 'there is nothing to worry about'

30. 'this is all very coherent'

31. So the keypoint is,

32. to attent to incoherence,

33. first acknowledge it

34. and then to do something about it.

35. Incoherence has become more dangerous

36. because of the scale

37. of our society

38. and because of technology.

39. We have all sorts of dangers

40. which are brought about

41. by our power.

42. The greater power we have,

43. the greater we need coherence.