David Bohm coined the word holomovement in a paper titled ‘Quantum theory as an indication of a new order: B. Implicate and explicate order in physical law’, published in 1973 in Foundations of Physics, published as Chapter 6 in Wholeness and the Implicate Order in 1980. Part A was published in 1971 with the subtitle ‘The development of new orders as shown through the history of physics’, Chapter 5 in his seminal book.

Then, in a typed article ‘Reality and knowledge considered as process’, dated May 1974, published as Chapter 3, Bohm endeavoured to show that all beings are inseparable from underlying reality, viewed as an indivisible process, much inspired by the process philosophies of Heraclitus and A. N. Whitehead.

Bohm wrote, “The best image of process is perhaps that of a flowing stream, whose substance is never the same. On this stream, one may see an everchanging pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow.”

As Bohm said, “not only is everything changing, but all is flux.” So, he told Renée Weber in an interview that a better word would be “holoflux, because ‘movement’ implies motion from place to place, whereas flux does not. So the holoflux includes the ultimately flowing nature of what is, and also of that which forms therein.”

However, this notion of an undivided flowing movement in the horizontal dimension of time, does not encapsulate our experiences of a vertical vital impulse, as Henri Bergson’s élan vital, emanating directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe, which Bohm, like Charles Darwin, was not able to include in his cosmology.

Accordingly, in Panosophy, the one-dimensional holoflux flows into the multidimensional Ocean of Consciousness, where waves and currents on and below the surface, are inseparable from the Ocean, viewed as a Hyperball, with infinite diameter. At the centre of this vast Ocean lies the Divine Origin of the Universe, which brings everything into existence through the creative power of Life in a wonderful playful dance, called Leelā or Līlā in Sanskrit. We can thus why see the entire world of form is called māyā in Sanskrit, as abstractions from Consciousness, usually translated as ‘deception, illusion, or appearance’.