Andrew Lohrey

• PhD
• Freelance research

Bohm's holistic reframing of physics in Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) has direct relevance for consciousness studies. Bohm's interest in meaning reflects his theory of wholeness, with its structure of implicate and the explicate orders, which, together, form the 'holomovement'. In this paper, we expand on Bohm's wholeness approach to sci...

This paper argues that all scientific research is framed by one of two organizing principles that underpin and shape almost every aspect of scientific research as well as nonscientific inquiry. The most commonly employed principle within mainstream science is content determines content. This is a closed, circular principle that is usually unstated...

This paper argues that all scientific research is framed by one of two organizing principles that underpin and shape almost every aspect of scientific research as well as nonscientific inquiry. The most commonly employed principle within mainstream science is content determines content. This is a closed, circular principle that is usually unstated...

We present a general discussion concerning the wholeness of what has been called infinite awareness, but here is called Omni-local consciousness. This model of consciousness has an interconnecting structure that has both local and nonlocal features, that is, the model contains local conscious human minds and locates them within an infinite (Omni) b...

In order to understand the world, we should begin to understand the way language works. It is the most abstract context of mind and involves the symbols of discourse, measurement, mathematics, money, as well every sign we use to signify something. However, the main purpose of language is to make and convey meaning. So, two questions arise: how does...

In this paper, we argue that Bohm’s unbroken and undivided totality he called the holomovement, the title he gave to the concept of the self-organizing universe, is more coherently understood when viewed as universal consciousness. Bohm’s understanding of consciousness oscillates around being a quality of local minds and the interconnected totality...

A fourfold vision represents a spiritual seeing of the world and therefore directly challenges the vulgar materialist view.

In theory and practice most scientists fail to distinguish between "information" and "meaning." This has been a common confusion that can inhibit the advancement of scientific knowledge as well as our understanding of what it is to be human. This muddle means that "information" is poorly understood while the subject of "meaning," if thought about a...

There is a painting by the Belgium surrealist painter, René Magritte(1898 – 1967) that shows an ordinary European smoking pipe and underneath is written: ‘This is not a Pipe’. The philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) was so impressed with the contradictions in the painting that he wrote a small book about it (Foucault, 1982)....

We propose that the universe is nonlocal and that the appropriate worldview or paradigm for this understanding is nonlocal realism. Currently the worldview of local realism guides and frames the understanding and interpretations of science. Local realism was the worldview employed by Einstein in his relativity theories, but the principles of this p...

This booklet, which is intended as a support to the delivery of professional development of Australian literacy educators on critical literacy, presents a seven-step systematic model of all contexts through which a text may be constructed and studied. The first two sections discuss the model's use as a comprehensive framework for future teaching, l...

This paper is critical of reductionist theories of everything (TOE) and proposes instead an outline for a holistic TOE based on symmetry. Symmetry is entirely omnipresent in the universe, it has a relational architecture and can be characterized by its formative, energetic, and infinite potentials as well as its basis in meaning and consciousness....

Occasional Paper No. 14. A Submission to: The Council of Australian Governments' Centenary of Federation Advisory Committee Meeting in Canberra 16 May 1993.