Michael Mendizza – Are We There Yet? - David Bohm's Theory of Dialogue
If there is a goal for dialogue perhaps it should manifest first as attention - not content. The primary objective of Dialogue is to develop a new, heretofore unknown, at least to most of us, state of awareness and perception of increasingly subtle movements of thought along with the underlying assumptions which hide this movement of normal consciousness. This freedom from the limitations of our normal state, with all of its conditioning, has the potential of expanding indefinitely to include the world or universe we live in. A secondary goal or benefit is the emergence of a less mechanical and more intelligent relationship to knowledge itself, which may radically alter our perception of the value of content.