David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers
of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more
unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s
and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama
whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy,
Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in
general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he
develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of
existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical
jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the
nature of reality.