In this episode of Lost in Language Jessica talks to Lee Nichol. They focus on the fundamental role of the body in a dialogue practice. Lee shares how Bohm’s early life, and the insights he was able to come to in physics provided a context for the importance of the body in a dialogue. as well as the relationship between the multiple bodies of the individual, collective and cosmos from Bohm’s perspective. Lee highlights the body’s role in how we think, perceive and sense in a dialogue, in ways that can allow us to participate in a vivid, awake, and directly participatory consciousness.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Institute in Pari, Italy. As a freelance writer and editor, his latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and, as editor, Holoflux: Codex (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue, The Essential David Bohm, and On Creativity. Lee has been on the faculty of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California and Denver University in Denver, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.