Thoughts on Dialogue

We have been reading David Bohm's "On Dialogue" and also came across this very interesting article on "Wholeness Regained".  It is interesting to note that from very different perspectives, many people at the boundaries of thought and understanding point to a very similar description of what is. And there are also differences in the descriptions since the history and metaphor through which "this place" is described are clearly different. It reminds me of a PBS special we saw on chimps that were using sticks put into termite holes to capture termites for eating. The females were better and quicker at this activity. The younger one who had not yet learned the technique would get the stick and wave it around and then look for termites on it. When there were none to be found, they would look at the "experts" who were getting termites and then the young ones would wave their sticks again and look again. It took several / many repeats of this process before the skill would be learned. And it seems to me that at the boundaries of understanding we wave our sticks around and then wonder why we are not catching termites. We don't have a basic understanding of the nature / structure of the situation and consequently are often flailing in "the dark" hoping to and a termite, as in the search for happiness or enlightenment or ....