David Bohm

Elegant, rational, and consciously connected.

I wonder how David Bohm understood everything about thought and the "me" and how it runs your life and wrote a book about it, called "Thought as a System", but still he wasn't able to dissolve it in himself.
He is said to have suffered from depression during his life and he was also depressed before he died, and it seems to me that he wasn't at ease with himself, as interviews show.
So how come he wasn't able to deal with it in himself? Was it because he only understood it intellectually?

As Bohm himself makes clear in Thought as a System, having an insight into Thought is not as easily come by for anybody...this is due to the very nature of the process itself which acts very rapidly and traps one into well worn patterns in the very act of considering it- that Bohm was unable to deal with it in himself does not in any way discredit what he had to say about the nature of Thought which is still quite relevant for all interested people.

to come to a fuller understanding of oneself....

well alan watts said "to understand something intellectually is to see it all the way through" now im not sure that this is entirely true but in academia this seems to be the general consensus, and I can see how David Bohm could have been depressed if he was a beleiver in such a view because then he might suffer from the "I understand too much" syndrome, which is a very terrifying feeling indeed. in my experience with Bohm it seems not unlikely that he could have thought that way..quite a genius

He reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut - he spoke in the same kind of way.

The thing people never take for granted is that as someones knowledge increases the perception of that cannot be explained through dialogue. So evidently we just get more distance aslong as we understand we are smarter than the rest. Bohm just tapped into how large the difference was between people ''acting'' compared to himself. I also think he just saw the deeper meaning behind was funny - which would be the control factor.