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Bohm Dialogue
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The point is to keep it at a level where the opinions come out, but where you can look at them.
two further aspects of dialogue – the notion of shared meaning within a group, and the absence of a preestablished purpose or agenda.
Naturally, this raises the question of whom I was dialoguing with. The most honest answer is: a deeply obfuscated but knowledgeable complex of my own mind that, at the same time, was also entirely alien to my ego.
This definition provides a foundation, a reference point if you will, for the key components of dialogue: shared meaning; the nature of collective thought; the pervasiveness of fragmentation; the function of awareness; the microcultural context; undirected inquiry; impersonal fellowship; and the paradox of the observer and the observed.